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...
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...
How to Set up Your Trucking Maintenance
As a truck driver, your truck is a home away from home. This means that it is important that your truck is in working order. Trucking maintenance can keep your ride smooth and safe. TMS can help ensure you are staying on top of your maintenance. Nobody wants to get...
DOT Compliance: Brake Maintenance
It’s CVSA Brake Safety Week. Starting on September 15 through Sept 21, inspectors will be looking at truck brakes as part of the ongoing attempt to get unsafe trucks off the road. DOT compliance – isn’t that just another way to say “we’re...
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,...
Truck Maintenance
On Friday morning while driving from Canton to Akron on I-77, I counted 10 empty flatbed trucks, 5 bob-tail cabs, and 3 speed-traps. It must be Memorial Day Weekend. Welcome to Summer – and the first long weekend we have at home. What are you going to do with...
Maintenance Tracking with TMS
If you’re going to use trucking software to track your truck maintenance, you might as well get the full picture of what’s going on in your trucking business. What is TMS? TMS means trucking management software. The programs use technology to help...
Truck Maintenance SWOT
When trying to maintain your truck, it’s important to prioritize your truck maintenance tasks. What’s the most important? What can wait? To make these decisions, a SWOT analysis can help. SWOT Analysis You may have heard of SWOT analysis for businesses....
Maintenance Management for Owner Operators
CVSA Inspections will focus on steering and suspension this year – only a month from now on June 4-6. We think that probably puts maintenance management high on your priority list in the next 4 weeks. Maintenance Management Are you taking the week of the CVSA...
Want More Than Just a Fast IFTA Program?
We’ve been reading your comments on our blog posts (Hey! Thanks for reading!) and it’s clear that a fast IFTA program is important, but we’re getting a lot of people asking some pretty smart questions. They want more than just a fast IFTA program....
You Need an Integrated Truck Mileage Calculator
Have you ever thought about hiring an assistant? Someone to manage the office work, make sure the IFTA is filed correctly and on time, and to bring you coffee every morning – even if you’re on the road? Ok, so that’s not going to happen. Hiring...
Truck Maintenance Software or Trucking Management Solution?
You probably have something set up to be your truck maintenance software if you’re running a fleet of trucks. You simply cannot keep track of the maintenance requirements in your head. Or on your calendar. Too many maintenance items are based on mileage, not on...
Maintenance Checks of Your Truck Don’t Have to be Routine
Tomorrow is Groundhog Day. Did you ever see that movie with Bill Murray where he repeats the day over and over until he finally gets it right? I think driving a truck can sometimes be that way too. We do all the same things over and over – load, drive, unload,...
A Complete Transportation Management System for the New Year
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...
Trucking Business Organization 101
Is there anything more annoying than driving through South Carolina during a snowstorm? Change that – is there anymore more frustrating than driving through South Carolina during a snowstorm? When the roads aren’t so bad but the drivers don’t know...
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...
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...
What to Buy a Trucker for Christmas
The Trucker Who Has Everything When you’re gift shopping for a trucker who’s been on the road for a while – they probably already have everything that they need. Or at least, everything that they think they need. Trucking in the future is not going...
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
We’re getting closer to that deadline. We saw some research that said more than 50% of owner-operators haven’t yet bought a truck driver log app or ELD system for their trucks. I know lots of drivers who are hoping this is all going to go away. Every...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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. People might...
Don’t Wait to File your HVUT
Did you remember that the HVUT is due on August 31? What is that? The Heavy Vehicle Use Tax is another tax we truckers pay to stay on the roads. I think it’s supposed to pay for highway maintenance, but I couldn’t find anything concrete to back that up....
Don’t Waste Your Time on the IFTA
You heard me. Don’t waste your time on your IFTA. I’m not telling you to ignore it or to not do it. I’m just pointing out that this chore has all the appeal of cleaning up my dog’s leftovers in the backyard after it rains. Many of us remember...
Fuel Tax Reporting Software: IFTA, Invoices, and Ice Machines
Maybe fuel tax reporting software isn’t on your radar because you enjoy the challenge of filing the IFTA. Ok, jokes aside. Maybe IFTA software isn’t on your mind. After all, it’s just 4 times a year and why spend money on it? What about your...
Fleet Maintenance Management Software Can Save You Time
TruckingOffice fleet maintenance management software can save you time in two ways. One, it simplifies the process of maintaining your vehicles with at-a-glance screens that are easy to review and update as needed. Two, it helps to prevent problems that can lead to...
What Do You Think About Uber Freight?
I’m hearing about Uber Freight – some people love it, some people hate it, some people fear it. What do you think? Is Uber going to take over trucking? I was trying to see exactly what Uber is offering. They say they want to speed up payment to...
Don’t Buy an ELD!
Don’t buy an ELD now! Yes, I know that it’s got to be on your truck this year. But don’t buy it now. Not yet. TruckingOffice will be releasing an electronic logging device later this year. Then you can be sure that you’re getting an ELD...Free Load Profit Calculator for Truckers
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