Pros and Cons of Fleet Management Technology
Fleet management technology is transforming the trucking world every day, and that’s a good thing. Those of us who have been around for a while can remember the days before everyone had smartphones, iPads, and laptops. While it’s easy to get nostalgic for...
Three Keys to Success With Fleet Vehicle Management
Smart fleet vehicle management can help you contain your costs, boost your profits, and keep your people happy. Fleet vehicle management Fleet vehicle management is probably the most important thing that a fleet manager has to track. There aren’t any invoices,...Reduce Your Fuel Taxes Now with IFTA Software
I’ll bet you’re not even thinking about your IFTA right now. Most truckers can barely keep up with the loads they’ve got to haul before the holidays – they’re not thinking about anything else right now. So why are we even talking about...
Benefits of Electronic Logbooks for Truck Drivers
With the ELD mandate’s implementation now nearly a year old, owner-operator truck drivers have installed electronic logbooks on their trucks. And while many might be feeling bogged down, overwhelmed, or even frustrated with the requirements of the mandate, there’s...
Trucking Dispatch Software Makes Life on the Road Easy
Has this ever happened to you? The invoice you sent out – and need to get your payment right away – gets stuck in some kind of accounting snafu? Instead of 30 days, you’re waiting more than 90 days out to get your money. Whether you call it a...IFTA Tax Reporting: Are You Ready for Q1?
TruckingOffice can make getting ready for IFTA tax reporting easier and faster. While nobody enjoys paying taxes, our software can slash prep times and eliminate errors that would otherwise take a big chunk out of your profits. Here’s how:Our IFTA tax reporting...
Love Your Trucker This Valentine’s Day with TMS
St. Valentine’s Day is just a few days away and you have a problem. You need a gift. Might we suggest a trucking management solution? TMS is now Trucking Management Solution What do you give a trucker who spends days on the road and then hours at home managing...
New Owner-Operator’s IFTA Basics
If you’re a new owner-operator, you may not have filed the IFTA until now. This isn’t a complete guide, but it can help you get started – and give you a tool to eliminate 99% of the headache that comes along with it. Because staying on top of IFTA...
A Complete Transportation Management System
It’s the new year and based on some scientific study, if you made a new year’s resolution, it’s likely you already broke it. Yes, someone paid for that study. We could have told them that. But if your resolution was to be more organized in your...
ELD, IFTA and Cost Per Mile
Did you pick out an ELD program based on the IFTA? Maybe not. Most people don’t even think about IFTA when they’re picking an ELD? After all, the software for IFTA isn’t related to the ELD, is it? (Hint: It does, if you use TruckingOffice...
Control Trucking Expenses with Trucking Accounting Software
There are a lot of trucking accounting software packages out there. Some of them are comprehensive package that offer entire trucking management software programs. Others focus down on just one part of being an owner-operator: the IFTA filing or maintenance...
Why You Must Do the IFTA Filing
What happens if you don’t file the IFTA? Do you really want to know? The consequences to not filing start at mildly annoying and move up to painful and expensive. The citation is only the first step. Tickets costs vary from state to state, but the fines will...
QuickBooks Is Not Your IFTA Solution
QuickBooks is probably the best-known small business software out there. I hear a lot of owner-operators tell me that it’s how they manage their finances. I can understand that for those people who are running a small fleet and have a bookkeeper. On one hand,...
Record Keeping: Why you must organize your owner-operator business
Happy New Year! Did you make any resolutions – especially about organizing your trucking business? Welcome to the club. Resolutions are one of those traditions that we recognize. Not keeping those resolutions is also part of the tradition. How well do you...
Truck Maintenance at the End of the Year
After days on the road, coming home might mean there’s a list waiting: the Honey-Do list. It’s not that those people at home can’t do those tasks themselves. Maybe they want to enjoy watching you do them. Maybe it’s a team effort. But home...
Trucking with Smartphones
I listened to a trucker podcaster recently. He talked about a rough survey he took at a truck stop one day this year. Less than half of truckers use smartphones. That surprised us. Smartphones go with trucking like french fries and ketchup. Why aren’t...
How to Pick the Best Truck Driver Log App
Looking for any truck driver log app isn’t any easier now than it was 5 years ago when the ELD mandate was put in place. There are still too many bad apps written without the trucker in mind. That’s why we at TruckingOffice decided that keeping the rules...
Black Friday and Cyber Monday: LTL Trucking Success
Black Friday and Cyber Monday can’t happen without truckers. Black Friday got its name from the custom of retailers to write their losses in red in and their profits in black. Black Friday is the day that most retailers put the red ink away for the year. Cyber...
ELD Value and Service Commitment by TruckingOffice
We saw this article about the ELD delay request from Indiana. It seems that the attorney general is questioning the validity of self-certification of the ELD equipment currently on the market. We know that older electronic logging devices don’t comply with the...
Owner Operator Trucking Business Software: Cyber Monday 2017 Special Offer
Keep Your Owner Operator Trucking Business Going and Growing Whether you’re a long-time owner-operator or new to the field, you know that the only way to build a successful owner-operator trucking business is to have a way to keep the business end working....
Top 10 Freight Broker Software: How TruckingOffice Stays on Top
In an industry littered with software solutions and so-called “game-changing” technological advances, it can be hard to boast one of the nation’s top 10 freight broker software options year after year. But we at TruckingOffice keep on doing it. It’s not a stroke of...
Truck Maintenance for the Winter
An ounce of prevention is worth far more than a pound of cure. Especially in the winter when we’re talking truck maintenance. Those emergencies on the road can destroy any profit from a load. We can’t predict when a part is going to fail. Debris on the...
Log Book Requirements You Should Be Aware Of
Log book requirements have long been fixtures of the trucking industry.It’s important that carriers, drivers, and all trucking professionals are fully informed before the new requirements go into effect. You probably saw the news announcement that there’s...
Maximize Your TruckingOffice Free Trial
Did you just sign up for your TruckingOffice free trial of our trucking management software to get your IFTA done fast? You’ve filed your IFTA in record time and now… what? How can you maximize your TruckingOffice free trial? It would be pretty sad to just...Here Is Your 2017 DOT Compliance Checklist
This article contains our updated 2017 DOT compliance checklist. Some of the information has changed since we published our original version in 2013. This is especially true when it comes to electronic logbooks, which are scheduled for mandatory use by December 2017....
Eliminate Your IFTA Without Giving Up Trucking
No, I’m not going to tell you to give up interstate driving. But I am going to tell you to eliminate your IFTA struggle in a perfectly legal way. It’s just like ice cream. Have you ever made ice cream? It’s not hard to mix everything up. Milk,...
Doing Your IFTA Filing in Your Cab
Can you imagine doing your IFTA in your cab? Not if you’re using paper log books. I can’t imagine trying to keep those on my bunk along with all the receipts, the calculator, a calendar, and my credit card or checkbook without everything spilling onto the...
Load Planning: How to Stay Ahead of the Pack
Load planning is a great way to maximize your efficiency and your profit margins. In this post, we will cover the basics. However, please remember that load planning is more of an art than a science. Consider the following information an introduction to this topic....
5 Reasons to Try Our Free Trial IFTA Software
Our free trial IFTA software can help take the sting out of paying fuel taxes. That’s because TruckingOffice has easy-to-use features like these: Automatic per-state mileage calculation that takes the uncertainty out of calculating your bill. With TruckingOffice in...
IFTA Preparation Software for the 21st Century
Our IFTA preparation software can save you money and endless hassle. But is that all it should do? Do you remember long nights sitting hunched over your desk or dining table, calculating and recalculating? Drinking stale coffee, and hoping that you’ve done all the...
Free IFTA Calculators Aren’t So Free
I typed the words “FREE IFTA” in a Google search tonight. I didn’t think I’d find anything, but sure enough, there was a free IFTA calculator on the screen. But was it free? Technically, it’s free for you to enter your data – for...
Fleet Manager: Are You Afraid of the IFTA?
It was a dark and stormy night. One Friday when the fleet manager went out to inspect each of the trucks, he noticed that in the first truck the odometer was 1,000 miles off from the driver’s logbook. In the second truck, the difference was even greater…...
IFTA Fuel Tax Software for Your Profit and Stress Relief
Use your IFTA to beat your stress Can IFTA fuel tax software help you make a profit? Looking at the bottom line after paying your IFTA? Are you wondering if you’re getting ahead? Making money? Able to think about retirement? Is this the wrong week to ask...
Get ELD Right the First Time
The idea of switching over to an electronic logging device system may seem like a huge hassle for drivers, owner-operators and fleet builders alike. After all, paper logs may not have been 100% accurate all the time, but they got the job done, right? Well, we are here...
Be Strategic With IFTA Tax Tables Updates
The new IFTA tax tables are out. We updated our table so you don’t have to. The news from Indiana was pretty awful. Indiana just raised their fuel taxes. They more than doubled them! West Viriginia added another 10% on their taxes too. In Illinois, the diesel...
ELD Truck Log App: What Do You Need?
We all know that the ELD mandate has created a bit of turmoil within the trucking industry. Truckers aren’t happy with the new ELD standards because they think it’s going to limit their hours, restrict their independence and make it impossible for them to make as much...
Benefits of Web-Based Trucking Software
We get calls asking about our app sometimes. “It’s not an app,” we say. “It’s a web-based software program. You can access from anywhere you have an Internet connection.” A lot of people don’t understand that....
Truck Driver Log App Is Coming
The TruckingOffice truck driver log app is on its way! We anticipate its official release by early fall. This will give you plenty of time to prepare for the December 17 switch to electronic logbooks. We’ve spent a lot of time looking over the government...
Load Planning Software That Works With Your Workflow
Is organization important? I was sitting in the office last month and listened to one of the dispatchers as she talked to a customer. It seems that the trucker with his load had just called and said, “I can’t deliver tomorrow and I’m leaving on...Free Load Profit Calculator for Truckers
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