Trucking Authority Terms Every New Owner-Operator Should Know
Starting your own trucking company means learning a new language. From FMCSA filings to IFTA and IRP, you’ll encounter dozens of unfamiliar terms while applying for your trucking authority. This glossary explains the most important terms in the order you’ll...
TruckingOffice announces the TruckingOffice PRO Driver App
What Is the TruckingOffice PRO App? The TruckingOffice PRO app is a mobile trucking app that connects drivers to TruckingOffice PRO trucking management software. From an Android or iOS phone, drivers can view dispatch details, update stop statuses, upload BOL images...
Revenue Billed and Revenue Paid: Two Numbers Truckers Need to Know
Trucker Stats™ show truck owners and independent truckers the importance of analyzing their data. Two statistics – revenue billed and revenue paid – sound like they should be the same thing. Unfortunately, they aren’t. The attentive owner-operator...
Trucking Cost Per Mile Explained: The Most Important Number in Your Business
Click here for Table of Contents Table of contentsThe Key to Successful Trucking BusinessWhat Is Cost Per Mile?Fixed Costs and Operational Expenses Included in CPMConverting Time FramesVariable Costs Included in CPMFuel Cost and IFTAWhen To Calculate Cost Per MileHow...
3 Reasons Why Integrated TMS and ELD Work for Independent Truckers
For independent truckers, the purpose of trucking management software (TMS) is to keep the business organized. The purpose of the electronic logging device (ELD) is to track hours of service (HOS) and stay compliant. Is there a reason to have integrated TMS and ELD? A...
What is Telematics?
What is telematics? What are telematics? We’re not sure which is right – but what we do know is that telematics are a big topic in the trucking industry now. Does it matter to the average trucker what telematics is measuring? Before your next roadside...
Check Your ELD Before a DOT Inspection
A couple of weeks ago, we got a call from the Minnesota Department of Transportation after a DOT inspection. The agent asked if a specific trucker has an ELD account with us. We want to make it clear that we gave no private data to the agent, just confirmed the...
Developing Customers for Your Brokerage
Freight brokers develop customers by being ready the moment a shipper suddenly needs a truck. That means building a network of reliable truckers, knowing each driver’s equipment and endorsements before the load appears, and staying organized enough to match the right...
Struggling With Costs and Chaos? Efficient Trucking Software Transforms Your Business
Running a trucking business is complicated. Juggling money, routes, invoices, pre-trip inspections, and HOS, managing a trucking business isn’t about driving a load. That’s the easy part. The business costs and data chaos have to be managed – and...
Start Your New Truck Brokering Business With the Right Software
Truck brokering has great potential for making a good living. After getting thorough training (and some experience), to start a new truck brokering business is a challenge. Like starting all new businesses, the key to starting well is by getting organized. Three major...
Merry Christmas from TruckingOffice
We hope your holidays are at home with your family and full of joy. We’ll see you back next week!Past Due Invoice Management
Truckers: Stop Letting Past-Due Invoices Hurt Cash Flow
It sneaks up on an owner operator with no warning. Business is good. And then the truck owner realizes that there isn’t any money to pay for fuel. What happened? Everything looked good – on paper. But past-due invoices haven’t been paid, and the bank...
How ELDs Help Truckers Get the Detention Pay They Deserve
No trucker wants to be stuck in a dock for hours on end. It can take money out of a trucker’s pocket to keep them waiting to be loaded or unloaded. Deadlines and commitments can go out the window when a trucker is detained. Then to add insult to injury, the...
Best Gift for Independent Truckers
Looking for a gift for an independent trucker? It’s often hard to know what to get for someone who lives in their truck cab. The amount of room in a cab is extremely limited, so anything that isn’t valuable to the job is hard to justify. Of course,...
Smart ELD Buys During Black Friday Deals
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...
How Profit and Loss Statements Make Trucking Businesses Grow
When a trucker has a dispatch route and map, they know where to deliver a load. But what if that trucker wants to grow their trucking business? That process can be confusing. A profit and loss statement is a required document in that process. What is it? What does it...
What Is A DVIR?
Every industry has their own abbreviations and codes. In trucking, DVIR is one of many, but it’s one that a trucker should be using daily. DVIR means Daily Vehicle Inspection Report. That daily part means it should be a regular part of the trucker’s...
Efficient Trucking Software
If there’s one word in the business world that everyone wants, it’s efficiency. How efficient is that task? How can we make our work more efficient? (Hint: it often means “how can we do this cheaper?”) Developing a complete trucking management...
Find New Trucking Customers With This One Weird Trick!
Don’t you just hate those headlines? We do too. To find new trucking customers for your trucking company doesn’t need a weird trick. Does it? What we’ve got to help you find new customers for your business isn’t obvious, but this simple...
How To Find Freight Brokerage Customers
Starting out in a freight brokerage business can be difficult. If a new broker doesn’t have a good network of potential shippers, it’s a huge challenge to build a business. So how do new brokers find freight shippers? It’s often about who you know....
Winter Trucking on the Road
Winter trucking isn’t the same as summer on the road. The weather is obvious. Rain, sleet, snow, puddles around the fuel pumps, and that one guy in shorts who’s filling his fuel tank like it’s July. While a sunny day in midwinter might be pretty with...
Truck Maintenance Logs For Winter Prep
Talking about the weather is boring. But we have to pay attention to the changing seasons in the trucking industry the same way any outdoor business must. Driving loads across the country or even just across the city can be an easy trip or into a blizzard. Truck...
Manage Trucking Company Expenses
If you want to control trucking company expenses, it’s not complicated. It sounds like it’s going to take a lot of time and require a lot of extra work, maybe staying off the road or spending time away from family. There’s no way to run a trucking...
Freight Brokers and Dispatchers
Some owner operator businesses look for ways to expand their company. The bottom line needs to go up – but the funds to invest in another rig or a secondary driver just aren’t in the bank. So they move laterally as a freight broker for other drivers. It...
Truck Expenses Per Loaded Mile
In the trucking industry, the owner operator is a major component. Sure, contracts with shipping companies are a major factor, but we know that half of the truckers on the road are independent. Those truckers have the freedom to choose their loads, but also the...
E Logs Without Contracts
Looking at the cost of running an owner operator trucking business isn’t just for newbies to the industry. Examining every expense may be tedious, but it’s critical to keeping a trucking company running. We talk often about Trucker Stats™ – data...
Labor Less with TruckingOffice TMS Trucking Software
“Work smarter, not harder.” This old saying is practically a cliche, but that doesn’t mean it’s a lie. What does working smarter in the trucking industry? It looks like cutting repetitive accounting data entry, refining the process from ret con...
Profit Per Load with Trucker Stats™
When building a trucking company, how can anyone know if a trip is profitable? How can you know how much profit per load a trucker is making? There are a few ways to attempt to figure it out. Cost per mile Revenue per week Expenses per month And using those numbers,...
Trucking Company Profit and Loss (P&L)
It doesn’t matter if you’re an owner operator or a fleet manager, the purpose of any business is to make money. One report that can help a trucking company determine how the finances are working is the Profit and Loss Statement. The P&L, as it’s...
Motor Carrier Authority to Brokerage Authority
When a trucking company wants to expand but money is tight, one solution may be to acquire a brokerage authority. For most small fleets or owner operators who have more than one rig, diversifying your company’s revenue stream with a brokerage authority is an...
When Is the HVUT Due?
If you’re new to the trucking industry, you might not know about the Heavy Vehicle Use Tax. Due at the end of August, this flat tax is collected by the IRS. It’s based on the weight of your rig. From...
Your Trucking Company Business Plan Review
Q2 is done. Hopefully, you used TruckingOffice PRO and ELD’s integration to produce an accurate (and fast!) IFTA report and have dealt with that annoyance and are now ready for what’s next. Do you know what’s next? If you pulled out your trucking...
Save Time With TMS Trucking Software
Long-distance truckers don’t get paid by the hour. We get paid by the mile. So tracking time seems unnecessary. TMS trucking software is an essential tool in today’s industry – and it tracks miles, not hours. So why are we talking about time? Selling Time...
Trucking Business Goals Met? What’s Next?
If you’re working a business plan for your trucking business, you’re already ahead of most trucking companies. If you’re achieving your goals, pat yourself on the back and think about this: many trucking companies are struggling right now. Having goals that keep you...
Automating Your Trucking Business
It’s the 21st century. Why aren’t more tasks that run an owner operator trucking business automated? Good question. TruckingOffice has ways for automating your trucking business already waiting for you. Automation From Dispatch to Invoice It can seem like...
More than Matchmaking: Freight Brokers and Data
Becoming a freight broker is becoming a matchmaker. Finding the right driver for a load isn’t just lucky. It’s not intuition. It’s a methodical use of data to create a partnership. Freight brokers and data are random – they’re the keys to...
Legal E-Logs for Less
Whether you’re starting a new trucking company or trying to cut expenses, finding legal e-logs is one of those tasks that has to be done early in the start-up, or as soon as possible to save money. ELD Compliant When we talk about Legal, we’re talking...
3 Reasons Double Brokering Hurts You
If you’re listening to anyone talking about trucking these days, they’re talking about double brokering. So what is it? Why is it bad? Double Brokering Double brokering is a practice where a customer hires a trucking company to move freight, and that...Free Load Profit Calculator for Truckers
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