3 Reasons to Use Trucking Software to Organize Your Trucking Business
If your New Year’s Resolution was to organize your trucking business, it’s likely you’ve already forgotten the resolution. Have you fallen back into habits that undermine your desire to improve your trucking business? Let’s get down to the...
Organize Your Trucking Brokerage Business
Are you starting a trucking brokerage business? Then you need to know how to organize your trucking brokerage business right away – or you won’t have one for long. To organize a trucking brokerage business, build the habit of staying organized from day one...
Choose the Best ELD for Trucks
The best ELD for trucks is an FMCSA-compliant electronic logging device that is easy to install, simple to use, and doesn’t lock you into a long-term contract. Here is how to choose one as an owner-operator or small fleet. Is it that hard to choose the best ELD for...
Trucking Software Organizes Owner Operators
Did you make a New Year’s Resolution to get more organized this year? You’re in good company. Many owner operators want to change up some bad habits that hurt their trucking business. What’s the solution? Trucking software organizes owner operators...
Goal Setting for Truckers
We’ve got New Year’s Day this week and some football games (Look, we’re from Ohio – we’re rooting for The Ohio State University!) And New Year’s Day means resolutions to make this year better than the last. So let’s talk about...
Merry Christmas from TruckingOffice!
We hope you’re at home with your family and friends and having a feast! Have a great holiday and we’ll see you next week!
ELD Truckers Christmas Gift
This Christmas, finding a good gift for a trucker is a challenge. Sure there are a lot of things that you might think a truck driver wants. But what they need is another matter. That’s where the ELD truckers need comes in. The ELD Truckers Need For the...
Give Your Trucker Easy Trucking Software
It’s the holidays and there’s one thing for certain – giving the right gift to a trucker isn’t easy. Do they need another pair of battery-powered socks? (Probably not.) Would they like a pound of rum-flavored coffee? (Not a great idea.) Can you...
TruckingOffice Thanks: 3 Months for 1
Trucking has been a tough market for the past few years. It takes an owner operator with a commitment to the job to stay in the field these days. We hear those stories from truckers who are struggling to make ends meet. It’s a rough time, and we appreciate their...
Build a Profitable Trucking Business
There are some unsung heroes in our country and today, we want to express our appreciation to them. So we’re here to say Thank you, Truckers! Profit starts with direction. Here is why you should write a trucking business plan for your company. A profitable...
Trucker Stats™ Improve Your Trucking Business
Trucker Stats™ are the report features in TruckingOffice PRO that show owner operators exactly what it costs to run a trucking business — per trip, per week or per month — so they can tell whether a load really pays. Tired of looking at your trucking business and...
Freight Broker and Cash Flow Vampires
It was a dark and stormy night when the new freight broker discovered that the lifeblood of her new brokerage had been sucked dry. How? Unpaid invoices were killing her. So it wasn’t dark or stormy or night. But unpaid invoices can indeed suck the chances of a...
The Search for the Missing IFTA Records
When your IFTA audit notification arrives, what do you do when you discover there are missing IFTA records and data? Could the fines and penalties bankrupt your small trucking business? Can you survive the auditor’s call? Missing IFTA records are the...
Trucking Management Software And ELD
It’s that time of year again. Either your trucking business is picking up a lot more freight – or loads are disappearing. It just depends on what you’re hauling. Not only that, the contracts for your ELD may be expiring soon, so you’re faced...
Get Your Truck Ready for Fall
The first day of fall was last week. Not that you could tell here in northeastern Ohio. We’re having a late summer – just the time to get ready for the weather that’s to come. When is it better to get your truck ready for fall? Do it while the sun is...
Trucking Management Software Statistics
Do your trucking management software statistics help you or bother you? Do you even look at your trucking management software statistics? Does your trucking software even produce any stats for you? Why you need trucking management software statistics You...
“Free” Trucking Invoice Templates: What Do They Really Cost?
“Why reinvent the wheel?” is the common question that many new owner-operators ask when faced with sending out their first invoices. With everything else you have to learn when you start out driving your own truck, invoices are just One. More. Thing. ...
Most Important Trucker Stat™?
This week has been hot. Very hot. Record-breaking temps across the US have made all of us seek air conditioning and pools to cool off. Agencies track the weather to know how to manage their resources. Smart truckers do the same with Trucker Stats™ to learn how to...
No More Late Invoices With Trucking Software
We hear a lot about late pay invoices from truckers. Why is it taking so long to get paid? When we ask, many of them say that they don’t send their invoices until the end of the month. No wonder they have late payments when they’re sending out late...
Every Trucking Fleet Starts With 1 Truck
There are dozens, if not hundreds of stories about how small trucking fleets get started. A trucker decides to get their trucking authority. They buy another rig and another trailer. Then a family member is added to the crew. And that’s how a trucking fleet gets...
Late Trucking Invoice Payments
Nobody is going to haul freight for free. Nobody can afford to. There are simply too many costs, but some shippers seem to expect us to by making late trucking invoice payments. Late trucking invoice payments have long been a real issue for independent owner operator...
How to Get Your Trucking Invoices Right and Get Paid Faster
You gotta get paid. The question is – how are you asking for it? Shippers and brokers don’t just send you the payment. Most brokers and shippers expect an invoice with the supporting paperwork they require before they’ll process payment. What’s...
Is TruckingOffice ELD Easy and Affordable?
Do you like your ELD? Or does your ELD make you crazy? Are you spending time trying to make it work? Spending too much money for what you’re getting? Is the TruckingOffice ELD easy and affordable? It sure is! We’ve worked to make the TruckingOffice ELD...
Top 5 Reasons for a Complete Trucking Software
As the trucking season ramps up, is it time to reconsider what software you use to run your trucking business? Because if you’re not using a complete trucking software package, you’re only hurting yourself. What is a Complete Trucking Software? We often...
State HOS Requirements
We’ve been getting this question recently. Since it’s the federal Department of Transportation / FMSCA requirement for an electronic logging device (ELD), do I have to have one if I don’t drive outside of my state? If my state’s hours of...
Does Your Truck ELD Help Your LTL Freight Trucking?
One of the biggest challenges of LTL freight trucking is how to bill for miles. Can your truck ELD help you? Yes – if your trucking invoice software is connected to your truck ELD. Trucking Invoicing Software for LTL Freight Trucking Why do you haul freight?...
Owner Operator Trucker: Is It Time to Change?
If you’re an owner operator trucker, you’re seeing what’s going on in the industry right now. Are you worried? You’ve got a right to be. The transportation industry is crazy right now with high fuel costs and low offers from brokers....
Your ELD Trucking Data Is Safe with TruckingOffice
Since the ELD Mandate went into effect in 2017, drivers have gotten used to the electronic logging devices collecting data about their trips. ELD trucking data was one of the biggest concerns that truck drivers back then. No one wanted the US government to have more...
How to Pass the CVSA Inspections
We all know the truckers who conveniently take off the week of the CVSA inspections for their vacation. As soon as those dates are posted, they plan to get off the road. Brakes get special attention once a year, too. Read our guide to CVSA Brake Safety Week to see why...ELD and Light Duty Truckers
A growing segment of the trucking industry is the light duty truckers – people with big pickups who haul small loads in the bed or on a trailer. Sometimes we get questions whether these light duty truckers need an ELD. So let’s take a look at who needs an...
MATS: Mid-America Trucking Show
If there’s one truck show we think you should go to this year, consider going to MATS, the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky. Why should you go? 1 It’s Big. Like BIG. This show is huge! And since it’s so big, you just can’t...
How to Finance a Truck Purchase
If you’re one of the brave who’s ready to step into the trucking industry, the biggest investment is buying a truck. Your equipment choices will impact your trucking career for years to come. A truck purchase requires careful research into the make and...
Time to Expand Your Trucking Business?
We saw an article come across the internet today about how there are now 9,000 fewer trucking authority permits active now. After we started breathing again, we read further, but one thought keeps coming back: Is it time to expand your trucking business? Look,...
Time to Start a Trucking Business?
Are we nuts, suggesting that right now might be time to start a trucking business? Don’t we know we are in a trucking recession? That may be why we’re talking about it now. Contrarians Start a Trucking Business TruckingOffice PRO has a new customer this...“I Hate My ELD!” TruckingOffice ELD to the Rescue!
We got a call in the office last year. “I hate my ELD!” the trucker said. “But I’m stuck in a contract.” In other words, it was Tuesday. Not that we don’t hear this on other days. We hear complaints about ELDs from other companies...
Trucking Business Goals for 2024
Trucking Business Goals It’s that time of year again, when we set goals and forget them in 21 days. At least, that’s what most of us do. So did you set your trucking business goals for this year? So we’re going to make the effort to remind you at...
Roles In TruckingOffice PRO Trucking Software
We’ve been asked about how to use TruckingOffice PRO for a fleet. How do drivers report? Who sees the data? What roles in TruckingOffice PRO can be assigned to people? Good questions. Good business owners know that trucking management doesn’t mean all the...
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 Plan 2024
Maybe you’re a new trucker. Maybe you’ve got a million miles under you. Either way, it’s time to make your trucking business plan for 2024. Why We Need a Trucking Business Plan Can you imagine getting a load and not being told the delivery location?...Free Load Profit Calculator for Truckers
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