FMCSA Investigations: What to Expect? How Truckers Can Prepare For It?
The Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration creates the standards to license and test commercial motor vehicle drivers. They compile data from investigations and use it to improve motor carrier safety throughout the country. Sometimes the FMCSA may conduct an...
3 Common Fleet Management Challenges
In most businesses, the two most significant challenges are reducing costs and increasing profits. Of course, the way business owners and managers approach the challenges will differ in accordance with the type of industry. But when it comes to fleet...
3 Benefits that Small and Medium Fleets Get With a TMS
TMS stands for transportation management system. This is a useful software that can help trucking companies stay organized, perform better, and avoid common trucking issues. This trucking software has plenty of features that help with the organization of files and...
ELD Mandate: What to Expect in 2021
The ELD mandate is an attempt by the FMCSA to reduce highway accidents involving commercial motor vehicles. Most CMVs must install an FMCSA-compliant electronic logging device. The mandate applies to large and small fleets, as well as owner-operator...
Freight Brokers: How a TMS Can Boost Your Shipping Speed
A reliable transportation management system can significantly benefit your trucking company in more ways than one. But making sure you choose the right TMS for your operations can be a challenge. This is particularly hard if you are new to using trucking software. TMS...
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...
2021 IRP Registration by State
What is IRP? The International Registration Plan is an agreement among 48 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and 10 Canadian provinces. The plan simplifies the process of fee collection and disbursement. The IRP requires only one apportioned...
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...
Truckers: Reduce Fleet Risk in 2021
Operating a safe and efficient fleet requires creating a fleet management plan that focuses on regulatory and physical risks. Those risks can include vehicle maintenance, driver safety, and meeting federal, local, and state regulations. Fortunately,...
2021 Truckers Guide for Newbies
Newbies: How to Decide if Trucking is Right for You One of the best ways to find out if trucking is right for you is to talk to someone who has been doing it for years. He may talk about downsides such as the long hours alone, the awful weather, the bad food,...
Comparing Trucking Software: Which One Is Best For You?
Over the years, trucking management has become more complex as governmental legislation and customer expectations seem to outpace your ability to comply. You’ve got to maintain efficiency, improve productivity, reduce costs, stay compliant, and yet still find...
Free IFTA filing software? Don’t think so.
It’s that time again to file the quarterly IFTA taxes filing. I’m going to guess there are a lot of new truckers out there who are scrambling, looking for free IFTA filing software programs to file their taxes. TruckingOffice has done a quick search to...
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...
Trucking Management Software Tools
Trucking Management Software Tools Secrets Have you ever taken just a bit too long to replace a tool? Then when the new tool works, you can’t believe you waited? Or maybe you’ve discovered that a tool you have does another task that you’d never...
What Is a DOT Audit and How to Pass It
A DOT audit or review determines a company’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSR) compliance. It evaluates safety performance and confirms that the owner-operator and the trucking firm is managing their proper recordkeeping. It’s usually done at the...
ELD Violations: How to Avoid Them
In the world of trucking, it’s not difficult to violate rules at some point, especially with the long list of new violations that appeared along with the ELD mandate. Anxiety about their ability to avoid ELD violations has many truckers on edge. In...
Three Signs It’s Time to Choose a New ELD Provider
There it sits. That supposedly awesome electronic logging device you recently bought. Maybe you could use it as a door-stop. Or, it could serve as a paperweight on your stack of log sheets. ELDs are not created equal. So, what should you look...
Did You Know You Need an IFTA License?
IFTA was created to simplify fuel tax reporting as well as distribution of those taxes to each jurisdiction. Of course, you’ve probably heard other truckers complain about the many complicated IFTA regulations and hope to avoid them. Unfortunately, there are only a...
5 Helpful Tips for Dispatchers
You’ve heard the rumors. Driver turnover rates and driver shortages are increasing. Why is this happening? Of course, the reasons are numerous, but among them are unmet expectations, training, onboarding issues, and poor relationships with...
Benefits of Using an Electronic Logging Device
Did you know that ELDs aren’t something new? It’s true. In fact, a lot of commercial drivers have been using them or AOBRDs for several years and believe the devices are beneficial in many ways. However, many drivers resisted adopting ELD...
What to Look For When Deciding on an ELD Provider
If you’re like most truckers, ELD is one of the trucking industry’s 3-letter words that makes you want to utter a string of 4-letter words. Especially now that you’re sorting through the hundreds of electronic logging devices on the market. How do you choose the...
How to File Your IFTA Report
Oops! Time is sneaking up on you. It’s time to submit your 3rd quarter IFTA report due by October 31st. If you’re new to the trucking industry, you’re a little nervous about this report. Or, you’re still a little unsure how to file one. ...
The 5 Most Common Cash Flow Errors in Trucking Management
One of the biggest mistakes small trucking companies make is failing to create a cash flow plan. Paying the bills and pocketing the rest of the money seems like a good idea to some. So it’s no surprise that many of these guys don’t succeed in the trucking...
Is Trucking a Numbers Game? Why Your Trucking Reports Matter
Trucking reports are more than just a way to keep track of miles and fuel use for tax payments. The reports are vital to your day-to-day operation. Why? Because you need to know where your money is going if you plan to succeed in the trucking industry....
The Top 10 Expenses Every Trucker Should Be Tracking
Whether you’re an owner-operator or fleet owner, you must control the costs of your operation if you intend to make money. Of course, your biggest expense is the vehicle itself, but what about all those other daily costs that chip away at your profit? Can...
5 Reasons You Should Combine Your TMS with Your ELD
By now, you and everyone else in the trucking industry are familiar with the terms ELD and TMS. But, lately, maybe you’ve heard some talk about combining the two. And are wondering whether you should do this, and why. So, to help you understand why this is...
Are Load Boards Worth the Money?
If you’re trying to decide whether load boards are worth your money, there’s much to consider. Load board and freight management systems have significant pros and cons. However, many new owners/operators or small fleet owners find that it’s a good option...
The Latest ELD News: What You Need to Know
Just when you thought you finally had all the ELD standards figured out, they make more changes. But, you’ll be happy to know that the most recent FMCSA update is to help CMV drivers have more flexibility regarding their HOS. The new rules will also improve...
What is the ELD Rule?
As a commercial motor carrier driver or owner-operator you’ll be asking many questions. So, to help you sort through the maze of information, we’ll talk about your biggest question, what is the ELD rule? The ELD mandate is a federal government regulation...
DOT Inspection: Here is Your DOT Compliance Checklist
The Department of Transportation (DOT) conducts annual inspections of commercial motor vehicles. As well as the drivers to ensure highway safety. This year’s inspections will focus on the driver requirements category, among other factors. Some things they...
5 Reasons Our TruckingOffice Software is Unbeatable
If you own a trucking business, you already understand how frustrating it can be when you get disorganized around the office. It can take a long time to get back on track with all the paperwork to fill out and file and invoices to send in. But if you have access to...
From Dispatcher to Driver: How Our Trucking Management Software Can Help
A trucking business can be difficult to operate if you don’t have the right resources to work with. In today’s technology-driven industry, trucking businesses need the assistance of electronic tools and software, TruckingOffice.com is here to help. With tools such as...
How We’ve Integrated TMS With ELD for a Seamless Workflow
Your trucking company can have excellent drivers and a well-running fleet. But if you are unorganized in your efforts, you will still fall behind. To run a successful trucking business, you need the right tools for the job. That is where TruckingOffice.com comes in....
Is Your IFTA Filing Done? Now What?
After your IFTA filing is done, then what? Do you just wait till October to deal with it again? You can – if you use TruckingOffice TMS. But don’t stop there. Accounts Any business has to deal with the finances. After all, we don’t drive for free....
When Is IFTA Due? And Other Owner-Operator Questions
Do you have nay owner-operator questions about IFTA? Like, when is IFTA due? Plenty of people have questions about IFTA – not just when is it due. What is it? Why do truckers have to pay it? How do I pay it? TruckingOffice IFTA Resource Center for New...
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...
IFTA Preparation: QuickBooks or TruckingOffice?
IFTA is due at the end of this month. How are you managing your IFTA preparation? IFTA Preparation Options As we see it, there are several options to complete your IFTA preparation. You can do it by hand. We truly hope you are not doing this. The chances of...
Overworked? Here’s How Our Trucking Management Software Can Cut Your Workload in Half
Do you have a reliable trucking management software? One may think that there isn’t too much that goes into running a trucking company. To someone on the outside looking in, you are simply transporting goods from one place to another. However, it can be...Free Load Profit Calculator for Truckers
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