by Allen Campbell | Sep 8, 2016 | Freight Sales, Taxes
When you’ve got the entire continent to get loads from, does the local chamber of commerce mean that much to your trucking business? I think it does. Last year, when the largest company in our community was split into two, I gained the chance to get a new...
by TruckingOffice | Sep 5, 2016 | IFTA, Invoice, IRP, Maintenance, Taxes, Trucking Management
Every job has its tasks that you have to do over and over again. Some of those tasks make us like the job. It’s what made us want the job in the first place. software for truck drivers Other tasks, not so much. Like paperwork. I know there are people out...
by TruckingOffice | Sep 1, 2016 | Customer Development, ELD, IFTA, Invoice, IRP, Maintenance, Reports, Taxes, Trucking Management
As a small trucking concern, you might think that you don’t need software. You may think it’s optional, like whether you want new seat covers this year. Small trucking company management software can make the difference between a business succeeding and...
by TruckingOffice | Aug 29, 2016 | Invoice, Maintenance, Reports, Safety, Taxes, Trucking Management
For the owner-operator, trucking isn’t just a job, it’s practically a lifestyle. Living weeks at a time on the road isn’t a career – it’s a choice to accept the road as home. Wherever you live, home has expenses. We’ve always...
by Allen Campbell | Aug 25, 2016 | Goal Setting, Maintenance, Trucking Authority
[bs_well size=”md”] TruckingOffice Wants Truckers to Succeed We’ve been focusing some of our blog posts on goals and goal setting. SMART goal setting SCHEMES to figure out your action plan Measurements to determine where your strengths and weaknesses...
by Allen Campbell | Aug 22, 2016 | IFTA, Invoice, Maintenance, Owner Operator, Taxes, Trucking Software
You want open an owner-operator trucking business? Welcome to the trucking world – it’s a lot bigger than you thought when you were just a driver. There’s a lot more you have to consider. Consider your maintenance schedule. Working for a trucking...
by Allen Campbell | Aug 18, 2016 | Reports, Trucking Management
Revenue is all about the dollars per mile you get for the load. End of story. Is it? The Whole Story of Revenue or How to Get Out of Florida I know some truckers who say they will never take a job less than $3 per mile. I call it the “Glory Load.” Good...
by TruckingOffice | Aug 15, 2016 | IFTA, Invoice, IRP, Maintenance, Taxes
If you’re a solo owner-operator, maybe you don’t think you need dispatching software. You know where you’re going, you have a GPS and Google Maps. Is truck dispatching software like TruckingOffice PRO really necessary? Do you want software that will...
by Allen Campbell | Aug 12, 2016 | FileSafe™, IFTA, Invoice, IRP, Maintenance, Trucking Management
We heard you. When truckers asked if they could put their own mileage records into TruckingOffice, we decided to find a way: PCMiler. PCMiler is now optional. You can use your own mileage numbers instead. For truckers who want to enter their own data instead of...
by Allen Campbell | Aug 8, 2016 | HVUT, IFTA, IRP, Maintenance, Organization, Safety, Taxes, Trucking Management
I just figured I should remind people 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...
by TruckingOffice | Aug 4, 2016 | GATS
The Great American Truck Show opens at the end of this month. Are you thinking about going? Here are three reasons you should go: Business Development If you’re an owner-operator, you need to hear what the experts are saying to help you stay current and...
by TruckingOffice | Aug 1, 2016 | IFTA, Invoice, IRP, Maintenance, Reports, Taxes, Trucking Management, Trucking Software
Is there such a thing as QuickBooks trucking software? No… and yes. QuickBooks is not an accounting program dedicated to any specific business except accounting. That’s the way it should be – most businesses don’t need a specialized accounting...
by Allen Campbell | Jul 28, 2016 | FileSafe™, Goal Setting, IFTA, Invoice, Maintenance, Trucking Authority, Trucking Management
[bs_well size=”md”] TruckingOffice Wants Truckers to Succeed We’ve been focusing some of our blog posts on goals and goal setting. SMART goal setting SCHEMES to figure out your action plan Measurements to determine where your strengths and weaknesses...
by Allen Campbell | Jul 21, 2016 | IFTA, Invoice, IRP, Organization, Taxes
How long does it take you do to your IFTA? Here are a few signs that indicate that maybe it’s taking too long. Watch for Stopped Vehicles Are you off the road instead of driving? Some drivers say it will take them a good 7 or 8 hours to do the IFTA by hand....
by Allen Campbell | Jul 14, 2016 | IFTA, Maintenance, Organization, Trucking Management
Get Organized WITH Your IFTA! Every year, I thought the same thing – I need to be ready for the IFTA. I’d do everything I could think of to get organized and ready for it. Every year, I’d find something else that could go wrong and I’d spend a couple of days wondering...
by TruckingOffice | Jul 11, 2016 | IFTA, Invoice, Taxes
If you’re a company driver thinking of going out on your own, then there is one aspect of the business you can’t afford to overlook—IFTA fuel taxes. That’s because US states and Canadian provinces depend on IFTA revenue to maintain their highway systems. For this...
by Allen Campbell | Jun 30, 2016 | Invoice, Maintenance, Owner Operator, Trucking Management
Forget Your Goals? Or Get Derailed By an Emergency? Keeping your focus on your goals with reminders or frequent review of your business helps move you forward, but there are days when the road to success has some expensive tolls. Emergencies crop up and we have to...
by Allen Campbell | Jun 27, 2016 | FileSafe™, IFTA, IRP, Maintenance, Organization, Reports, Trucking Management
As an owner-operator, you’re responsible for all of your paperwork and compliance to all the laws. I found I could get snowed under really quickly if I didn’t take care of my paperwork. If I didn’t do it after every load, I at least had to do it...
by Allen Campbell | Jun 23, 2016 | Customer Development
Just starting out on my own as an owner/operator and I wanted to know why you think it’s important to work on getting customers. I get all my loads from a load board. Don’t you think that’s enough? Welcome to the world of being your own boss. As...
by TruckingOffice | Jun 20, 2016 | Invoice, Maintenance, Safety, Taxes
Shane wanted to be in business for himself. When he got out of the Army, he looked around for a while and decided that there wasn’t much he could do that would get him to self-employment faster than driving his own truck. Three years later, he...
by Allen Campbell | Jun 16, 2016 | Fleet Management, Freight Sales, Owner Operator
Building your trucking business takes an eye for the long haul. Successful fleets are based on long-term partnerships with clients, not on one-time deals. Load boards may help you to find work quickly, but they can’t create the kind of steady, ongoing relationship...
by TruckingOffice | Jun 13, 2016 | CVSA, IFTA, Invoice, IRP, Maintenance, Reports, Trucking Management, Trucking Software Training
How do you determine which freight management software is the best for you? It’s not a choice you want to make without due consideration. Who wants to buy multiple software packages? Who’s got the money or the time to learn different programs?...
by TruckingOffice | Jun 6, 2016 | Trucking Software
At a six-year-old’s birthday party, no one is thinking about how the gifts got to the party. How the caps and gowns arrived, to be worn by the students, never crosses anyone’s minds as the graduates cross the stage to receive their diplomas. The brides...
by Allen Campbell | May 26, 2016 | Goal Setting, Invoice, LTL, Trucking Management
Back on Leap Day, we posted a suggestion to you to set some goals for your trucking business this year. Then we blogged about the SCHEMES action plan method to help you move toward your goals. We even suggested fuzzy dice as a way to keep focus on your goals. How...
by Allen Campbell | May 19, 2016 | Invoice, Owner Operator
No question about it, QuickBooks is the current gold standard for small business’s accounting processes. There’s hardly a bookkeeper out there who hasn’t gotten proficient at it in the last five years. Now that QuickBooks is in the cloud and...
by TruckingOffice | May 9, 2016 | IFTA, Owner Operator, Trucking Software
Nobody is managing a truck fleet with pencils and paper anymore, are they? Sure, 30-40 years ago, a lot of us started out with multi-page bills of lading, hand-written log books and notes written in little flip spiral-bound notebooks. We graduated to Lotus 123 and...
by Allen Campbell | May 5, 2016 | CVSA, ELD, IFTA, Invoice, Maintenance, Reports, Trucking Management, Trucking Software Training
Paul wants to keep on top of his small fleet’s truck maintenance. His boss came down last week with a half dozen unexpected emergency bills that she thought should have been avoided. He wouldn’t argue with that. But managing a fleet of nineteen trucks...
by Allen Campbell | May 2, 2016 | Owner Operator
It’s all about the customer. Bet you wish you had a nickel for every time you heard that. As an owner operator, especially in days when the loads are small and not too many around, you need a way to make sure your trucking customers remember you. Getting people...
by TruckingOffice | Apr 25, 2016 | ELD, IFTA, Taxes
Ever had your checking statement not balance? I had that problem – endless repetitions of calculations, trying to find that odd $83.26. Did you give up? I did. Then the bank came after me for overdrafts – which end up costing me way more than the $83.26...
by Allen Campbell | Apr 21, 2016 | ELD, IFTA, Invoice, IRP, Maintenance, Organization, Owner Operator, Reports, Taxes, Trucking Management
We can’t get away from the accounting. We can’t let the accounting get away from us. When we become an owner operator, we take on a lot of extra roles as well, especially bookkeeper (unless you’re lucky enough to have one in your family!) What do...
by TruckingOffice | Apr 18, 2016 | Maintenance, Owner Operator
Not that we don’t like QuickBooks. But do owner operators need it? Accounting software for trucking business is a necessity for today’s transportation professionals. This is true whether you own one truck or 1,000. It’s also why we built important bookkeeping...
by Allen Campbell | Apr 14, 2016 | IFTA, IRP, Organization, Owner Operator, Reports, Taxes
Gus loves driving. Every minute he’s on the road, he’s happier than a pig in mud. Becoming an owner operator was a dream come true for him. Gus hates every minute he spends at the computer, trying to manage his books. He’s organized. He’s...
by TruckingOffice | Apr 11, 2016 | ELD, Maintenance, Trucking Management
TruckingOffice offers logistics management solutions for today’s transportation professionals. We continuously work to keep our software updated. We need the latest capabilities to succeed in today’s competitive business environment—without being needlessly...
by Allen Campbell | Apr 7, 2016 | IFTA, Maintenance, Taxes, Trucking Management
Leon had no one to blame but himself. The expedited load from Pennsylvania to Mississippi paid a great rate and gave him a great January total. But he’d forgotten to write down his mileage in each state and with the April IFTA forms spread across his desk, he...
by TruckingOffice | Apr 4, 2016 | IFTA, Owner Operator, Taxes, Trucking Software
There is no such thing as QuickBooks trucking software. As you probably already know, there are plenty of business software packages on the market, each claiming to be the best. One that’s gotten a fair amount of attention over the years is QuickBooks. While that...
by TruckingOffice | Apr 1, 2016 | IFTA, Invoice, Maintenance, Owner Operator, Trucking Management
Owner Operators – How are you doing? Running your own business as an owner operator requires a lot of attention. Brian likes to think he’s got it under control, but the fact is, he feels like he’s sinking fast. He can’t remember the last time...
by TruckingOffice | Mar 31, 2016 | Fleet Management, IFTA, Invoice, IRP, Maintenance, Organization, Reports, Trucking Management
TruckingOffice’s truck fleet management software can help you to meet the challenge If you’re running your own transportation company, whether you run one truck or 1,000, you’ve got big challenges. Fail to succeed here and your business will fail. So why...
by TruckingOffice | Mar 21, 2016 | IFTA, Invoice, LTL, Maintenance, Reports, Taxes
Make Your Bookkeeper Happy Bookkeepers have got a tough job with truckers. Until they’ve gotten familiar with the government requirements and the complications of our billing – especially LTL – they’ve got a lot to master. Bookkeeping for...
by Allen Campbell | Mar 17, 2016 | Organization, Owner Operator, Reports, Trucking Management
If you’re an owner-operator or running a small truck fleet, trying to figure out if you’re making money and where you’re losing it is not a simple process. Normal business accounting programs just don’t cut it. That’s why you need a...
by Allen Campbell | Feb 29, 2016 | Goal Setting, LTL, Trucking Management
It’s just another day on the road, right? It’s Leap Year and today’s that extra day on the road. No big deal, right? It can be just another day, but maybe this could be the day that you choose to make extra. An extra day to think about more than...
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