Trucking Software vs. QuickBooks: Which Does Your Trucking Business Need?
QuickBooks and trucking management software like TruckingOffice PRO solve different problems. QuickBooks is general-purpose accounting software. Trucking management software connects dispatches, loads, miles, expenses, invoices, and trucking reports. ...
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?...
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
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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...
Gifts for Truck Drivers: The Best Gift for Independent Truckers
The best gifts for truck drivers are the ones that fit a life lived in a truck cab: small, useful, and tied to the job. Cab space is limited, so for an independent trucker or owner-operator the most valuable gift is usually something that saves time and money running...
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? Reviewing your ELD contract is one piece of winterizing your trucking business...
How Profit and Loss Statements Make Trucking Businesses Grow
When a trucker has a dispatch and a route, they know where to deliver the load. The process is clear: pickup, transport, delivery. When you decided to start a trucking business, you chose to operate under your own authority. Load decisions got more complicated...
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 complete trucking software fits...
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
Trucking company expenses are the costs of running your trucking business, and you manage them by recording every dollar that leaves your pocket and then reviewing your own business history. If you want to control trucking company expenses, it’s not complicated....
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...
Labor Less: Trucking Accounting Software That Cuts Data Entry
Trucking accounting software is bookkeeping and business-management software built for the way trucking actually works — pay by the mile, per-trip expenses like tolls, lumpers and fuel, and fuel taxes such as IFTA and IRP that no other industry files....
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? Profit per load is what is left over after you subtract every cost of hauling that load — fuel, tolls, maintenance, insurance,...
Trucking Company Profit and Loss (P&L)
A trucking company profit and loss statement (P&L) is a financial report that shows a carrier’s income, expenses, and the resulting profit or loss over a specific period. It answers one question: did the trucking business make money? A P&L is not the same as a...
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...
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? For a closer...
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 pays off in hours, not just accuracy: here...
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...
Trucker Success with Trucker Stats™
Trucking company success doesn’t come easy. A trucking business is ultimately a complicated endeavor with many moving parts. (Pun intended.) How do you know if what you’re doing is right? Do you have data that can tell you what works -and what...
Don’t Depend on Rate Con Templates
Who told you, “Do it right the first time and you won’t have to do it again!” in your life? When it comes to creating rate cons, they were right. If you depend on rate con templates, you’re going to have to do it again. Who wants to do it...
Prevent Missing IFTA Records for Your Audit
The notice has arrived. An IFTA audit is scheduled in 30 days. A representative from IFTA will show up on your office doorstep and expect to see your mileage and fuel purchase records. And what do you have to show them? Or worse, what don’t you have available to...
Goal Setting for Your New Trucking Company
Are you new to the trucking industry? Getting started as an independent driver or owner-operator can be a costly investment that requires you to be making money from the start. For most of us, goal setting is an ideal way to make sure you’re making a profit as...
Rate Con Change? ELD Updates Drivers ASAP
Compared to a decade ago, keeping in touch with a long-distance truck driver these days is easier. Cell phones and emails can reach almost everywhere in the US. But it’s not perfect. Having a backup system to notify drivers of updates is valuable to prevent...
Automatic Load Entry into TruckingOffice PRO
You get your rate con PDF from a broker or shipper via email these days. So why should you have to copy/paste – or worse, TYPE! – that data into your trucking management software? It’s the 21st Century! Where’s the automatic load entry into my...
Why Write a Trucking Business Plan?
Why write a trucking business plan? What’s the point? Once the plan is written, the next job is reviewing it. See how to run your end of year trucking business plan review and turn last year’s numbers into next year’s route. We could sound like some...Free Load Profit Calculator for Truckers
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