Motivation for Trucking Business Plans
It’s been a hot minute since the TruckingOffice blog focused on trucking business plans. Just like a trucker needs a map to make a delivery, building a trucking business needs a map to get where the owner-operator wants to go. By writing a business plan, that...
Owner Operator Business Plan 7: Plan Building
Building an Owner-Operator Trucking Business Plan Your business plan will have an executive summary a company overview a marketing plan a set of goals or milestones a list of the current staff a financial plan. TruckingOffice can help you as we break down each step of...
Owner Operator Business Plan 6: Financial Statement
Building an Owner-Operator Trucking Business Plan Your business plan will have an executive summary a company overview a marketing plan a set of goals or milestones a list of the current staff a financial plan. TruckingOffice can help you as we break down each step of...
Owner-Operator Trucking Business Plan 5: Management
Your business plan will have an executive summary a company overview a marketing plan a set of goals or milestones a list of the current staff a financial plan. Each of the separate parts helps to create a full picture of your trucking business and will help you...
Owner Operator Business Plans 4: Goals and Milestones
Building an Owner-Operator Trucking Business Plan Your business plan will have an executive summary a company overview a marketing plan a set of goals or milestones a list of the current staff a financial plan. TruckingOffice can help you as we break down each step of...
Owner Operator Business Plans 3: Marketing Plan
Building an Owner-Operator Trucking Business Plan Your business plan will have an executive summary a company overview a marketing plan a set of goals or milestones a list of the current staff a financial plan. TruckingOffice can help you as we break down each step of...
Owner Operator Business Plans 2: Company Overview
Building an Owner-Operator Trucking Business Plan Your business plan will have an executive summary a company overview a marketing plan a set of goals or milestones a list of the current staff a financial plan. TruckingOffice can help you as we break down each step of...
Owner Operator Business Plans 1: Executive Summary
The trucking industry is responsible for transporting 70% of all freight in the United States. In 2021, this translates to over $930 billion in goods being hauled across the country on trucks every year. Does this sound like something you want to be a part of? If you...
Owner-Operator Business Plans
North America has had a lot of winter already this year. Record-breaking temperatures, blizzards, and now Ohio is expecting to get several days in the 50s with rain. It feels like it’s been a year already and it’s barely February. Did you have a plan...Action Plans for Your Trucking Business Goals
Did you already forget your New Year’s Resolutions? What about our Leap Day Goal Setting challenge? Yep, most of us do forget our good intentions within weeks of making those resolutions. There are two things that can help us be more successful: Number 1:...
Streamline Your Trucking Business
During a trucking recession, making a profit in your trucking business requires a long, hard look at every part of your company. And we’ll bet that the thing you see is that your business systems could use some finetuning. How do you streamline your trucking...
Trucking Business Goals for This Year
Back in January, did you make some resolutions? Did you set trucking business goals for the year? How are you doing on those? New Year’s Resolutions and goals are often forgotten or abandoned before the end of the first month. It’s easy to get lost when we...
Recurring Expenses Planners For Your Peace of Mind
When you run a trucking business, you’ve got expenses that you pay consistently. That’s a good thing. You know the bottom line that your business needs to break even. If you’re hauling a regular load for a customer, you can look at your records and...
Top 10 Ways Trucking Software Improves Trucking Business
1. Get Organized – Avoid the paper pile up! 2. Invoicing – Create Send Track 3. Load Details – Track all of the details in real time. 4. Miles By State – Tracked on every trip save so that they are ready for reports in real time. 5. Driver...
Is Your Trucking Business Losing Money? Know Your Numbers Series
Want to hear a scary fact? Thousands of trucking businesses – small businesses – closed in one month this year. The economy? The price of fuel? The hardships of life on the road? Every business has their own story, even if they all end the same way. What...
Is Trucking Business Success Just Luck?
Owner-operators have to know their numbers. (That’s why TruckingOffice PRO trucking software exists.) We have to know our value. If we don’t, what are we counting on to build our trucking business success? The Numbers You Need to Know It’s too simple...
New Trucking Business Success Starts Now
Getting started as an owner-operator? Picking your loads, choosing your routes, taking care of your rig, it’s all part of the new world you’re working in. The freedom of the road is far better than the the lack of choices you had when you worked for a...
How does Trucking Business Software Help You Start Your Trucking Business?
The trucking industry is constantly evolving, and many different factors go into an individual’s success. One such factor is the use of technology, which has been steadily increasing over the years. To start your trucking business, you need the right trucking...
Running a Trucking Business is Not Just About Accounting
It’s easy to get swept up in the finances. But the truth is that running a successful trucking business goes well beyond accounting. There are two big mistakes that owner-operators make. One is not paying enough attention to cash flow. The other is getting so...
How a TMS Helps Optimize the Carrier Process in Trucking Businesses
Have you discovered that the trucking business is more stressful than you thought? Some days, you feel that you haven’t broken even. Bad weather, bad roads, bad food, and irate customers. It can be difficult to deal with at times. Ask any...
3 Ways ELDs Have Improved Safety for Truckers and Trucking Businesses
The primary purpose of an ELD for trucking is to improve highway safety for everyone. Generally, the ELD rule ensures that drivers get the rest they need to prevent accidents. This benefit is possible due to the accurate RODS data gathered by the...
Trucking Business Owners: How an ELD Can Help You Reduce Expenses
Are you still not convinced about the benefits of an ELD? You’re not alone. In fact, many truckers resisted installing an ELD device as long as they could. Most of them were worried about the HOS compliance constraints. They also felt...
The Pillars of a Trucking Business: What Are Transportation KPIs?
Key performance indicators (KPIs) are the metrics used to measure a company’s efficiency. KPI data reveals the strengths or weaknesses of the business. With this information, business owners can make informed decisions about any changes needed. ...
ELD Technology Issues: Why Choosing a Bad Quality ELD Will Harm Your Business
Do you know what happens if your ELD malfunctions? First of all, if you’re an owner/operator, it’s up to you to repair or replace the device, so now you have an unexpected cost that your budget may not appreciate. Of course, there may be other issues...
3 Reasons Why Not Having a TMS Makes Trucking Business Management Harder
Managing a trucking business without a trucking management software system (TMS) can present many challenges. As a trucker, time is your most valuable asset. But you may be wasting time if you’re not using a TMS. Of course, many truckers still resist letting go of...
Why Payment Tracking Is Essential for Trucking Businesses and How a TMS Can Help
Whether independent owner-operators or large fleet owners, truckers must understand their business costs. Unless you know where your money is going, you won’t know where to make adjustments. Since your profit margin is small, you’ve got to stay on top of...
How to Use a TMS for Freight and Shipment Visibility in Your Business
Nothing is more important in the trucking business than real-time shipment visibility. What does this mean? It means dispatch can be more proactive and address any problems that might be brewing. It also means customers know when to expect their...
How a Trucking Dispatch Software Improves the Logistics of Your Business
Whether you are an owner/operator or manage a large fleet, dispatching can have a direct and significant impact on your efficiency, profits, and customer service. For instance, inept dispatchers can cause unnecessary fuel costs, increased driver fatigue, and...
2021 Trucking Business Goals
Are you making New Years Resolutions? Lots of people do that right about now, but since New Years Day was on a Friday, they decided to wait to get started until today. Then, about 3 weeks later, their trucking business goals have already been forgotten. That may be...
How to Manage Your Trucking Business Software
What are you looking for in trucking management software? How do you want it to interact with your trucking business? That depends on your trucking business. If you’re leased on to a transportation company, you’re going to be required to use their...
Manage your trucking business expenses – including IFTA, IRP, HVUT
When you’re an owner-operator or a fleet manager of a trucking firm, you have a lot of numbers you must track – miles per state, fuel purchases, driver settlements, tolls, tools – you name it, there’s a number attached to it. To manage your...
Starting a Trucking Business: Invoicing and Cash Flow
Nothing can cripple a small trucking business faster than unpaid client invoices. In fact, a 2019 report put the total amount owed in unpaid invoices across all small businesses in the United States at about $825 billion. Needless to say, accounts receivable is the...
The 3 Quickest Ways to Increase Cash Flow in a Trucking Business
While cash flow is important to every business, it is especially important to the trucking business. Cash flow can involve anything from checks to Paypal payments. In the trucking industry, customers can take 30 to 90 days to pay. This can greatly hinder your...
Know Your Numbers: How to Run Your Trucking Business More Efficiently
The trucking industry keeps the United States’ economy flowing. Without truck-drivers hauling resources on the road, a great number of industries would come to a stand-still. Around 71% of the United State’s freight is moved by trucks. This equates to nearly 11...
Here are the 5 Things That Will Stop Cash Flow in a Trucking Business
Running a profitable business and still running out of money is not an uncommon problem for American business owners. According to a U.S. Bank study, 82% of businesses fail because of cash flow problems. Not because they can’t provide quality service or attract good...
Starting a Trucking Business in the 2020s? Here’s What You Need to Know
Of all the modes of transportation in the United States, trucking is by far the most important. A staggering 80% of all cargo in the U.S. is transported by the trucking industry. This is four times the amount as air, rail, water, and pipeline combined. Additionally,...
International Registration Plan: Who Needs It
The International Registration Plan (IRP) is a registration reciprocity agreement. It regulates the registration and operation of commercial vehicles in the United States and Canada. It was established in the 1960s and early 1970s. The process of applying for IRP...
Plans, Goals, and TruckingOffice
A lot of people don’t like setting goals. It’s frustrating when they don’t achieve the goal. Goals lead them to blame themselves, to make excuses, and makes a person feel bad instead of helping people complete a task. So is goal setting a bad thing?...
Truck Tracking Software Helps Your Trucking Business
When you order from Amazon, you now get more details about where your package is – even a picture of when and where it was delivered. It’s almost expected now in the online retail industry – even the Post Office offers it. In order to do this, they...Free Load Profit Calculator for Truckers
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