Looking for an ELD for your truck? Right now, if your internet is like ours, Black Friday and Cyber Monday special sales are slamming the feeds. Is this the right time to buy a new ELD?
Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales?
Every year, people go a bit crazy right after Thanksgiving. With the upcoming holidays, people want to get the perfect gift for their loved ones. But there’s another, more practical aspect to making purchases this time of year.
For an established trucking company, it’s Q4. Right about now, most small business people have a good sense of what their cash flow will be for the remainder of the year. Decisions about equipment, software, and upgrades are made now. Knowing your business’s financial state and making wise choices to invest in your trucking business go hand in hand during this time of year.
Maybe You’re Just Getting Started
Starting a trucking company as an independent trucker or an owner operator, there are dozens of expenses that a driver for a big trucking firm covered. There are two major purchases a new trucking company needs to make – an ELD and trucking management software.
So if you’re looking for a low-price, no-contract ELD for your semi truck, TruckingOffice ELD is a great bargain. The mandate doesn’t require extra bells and whistles. An easy to install, easy to use, it’s basic. Exactly what you need at a price you can afford.
It’s easy to get carried away with Black Friday sales or Cyber Monday offers. Taking some time to think through decisions about investments – even in the rush of the holiday season where “Special Offers” abound – is smart. Forward thinking, instead of focusing on “I gotta get it now” fears, avoids buying equipment that might not be the best choice.
Save Your Money To Build Your Trucking Business
If you’re an independent trucker or an owner operator, you are a small business owner.
There’s a lot more to trucking than picking up a load and delivering it across the country. Like any business, cash flow, maintenance, and customer service are part of the job. As a solo entrepreneur, those tasks must be taken care of, or the business would fail.
Build Your Trucking Business with TruckingOffice
If you’re planning a career in transportation, you know what tools you need to maintain your rig. Recognizing that there are tools necessary to run your business is just as important. Making the right choices to run a trucking business is as serious as making sure that a trip rate con covers the cost of a load. Plenty of new truckers think they can make Google Docs, Sheets, & Maps do the work at no cost.
Why doesn’t Google work well?
How many spreadsheets will you need for
- dispatches
- maintenance records
- accounting records
- IFTA and IRP miles per state?
and that’s just the basics! There’s a lot more that spreadsheets don’t do well.
- If an invoice created in Google Docs is paid, someone has to manually go into a spreadsheet to enter the payment.
- If a DVIR showed a tire problem, where do you keep the receipts and records for the repair?
- Tracking miles per state per quarter (or every six months) for taxes is important, but how do you find the current tax rates for each jurisdiction?
Using a complete TMS trucking software is the way to run a trucking business without spending hours off the road.
Using a trucking software package that integrates with an ELD is the best of all.
TruckingOffice offers the best options for the solo trucker or the fleet builder. We’ve got affordable trucking management software that handles everything, including automatic rate con load entry. TruckingOffice PRO with TruckingOffice ELog makes your life easier and managing your business smoother by helping you handle your tasks better and faster:
- dispatches
- routing
- invoice generation and tracking
- expense management
- IFTA and IRP
- maintenance
- Trucker Stats™– reports to show the state of your trucking business.
Combined with the TruckingOffice Electronic Logging Device, you’ve got everything you need to build a successful trucking business – even from the cab of your truck.
Contact us today to try TruckingOffice PRO free trial help you avoid loads that cost you money to deliver and to discover what equipment is the most profitable for you.
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