Is It Time to Buy Trucking Equipment?
Is it wrong to think about growing your trucking business right now? There are always people willing to take risks even when the economic signs look questionable. This contrary mindset might be the start of growing an independent owner-operator trucking business into...
To Lease On or Not? Part 2
In the last post, we discussed the pro side of the decision for a new owner-operator to lease on to a trucking company. In this post, we take a look at the reasons why the driver would turn down the option. The short answer: leasing on to a trucking company trades...
Expand Your Trucking Revenue Stream
Have you ever thought that you might be leaving money on the table in your trucking business? Maybe you’re looking for a way to expand your trucking revenue stream? Growing capacity is one way to grow revenue. If the new driver is a spouse, son, or daughter,...
Build a Family Trucking Business
A family trucking business is a carrier operation owned and staffed by members of the same family — most often an owner-operator who expands to a second truck driven by a spouse, son, or daughter. Building one is a financial decision before it is a family one: the...
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...
How to Find Shippers for Your Trucking Company Without a Load Board
To find shippers for your trucking company, ask for a referral — from your current customers, from local businesses near your home base, and from the people who already know which companies in your area need freight hauled. Direct shippers are not hidden behind a...
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? Carriers face the same challenge from...
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...
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...
Top 10 Ways Trucking Software Improves Trucking Business
1. Get Organized – Avoid the paper pile up! 2. Invoicing – Create Send Track 3. Load Details – Track all of the details in real time. 4. Miles By State – Tracked on every trip save so that they are ready for reports in real time. 5. Driver...
IFTA Sticker Guide: What It Is, Who Needs One, Costs, Fines & Renewal
That small IFTA sticker on the side of your truck may not look important. Driving without it can lead to fines, to the need for temporary fuel permits, or even to being placed out of service in some situations. Even after it expires, you must keep it for four years....
Your Trucking Authority is the Road to Success
Getting your own trucking authority gives you the opportunity to schedule your own loads and to negotiate your own rates. As an owner-operator trucker, leasing on to a large carrier company has benefits, but holding your own authority will provide you with...
Running a Trucking Business is Not Just About Accounting
It’s easy to get swept up in the finances. But the truth is that running a successful trucking business goes well beyond accounting. There are two big mistakes that owner-operators make. One is not paying enough attention to cash flow. The other is getting so...
How a TMS Helps Optimize the Carrier Process in Trucking Businesses
Have you discovered that the trucking business is more stressful than you thought? Some days, you feel that you haven’t broken even. Bad weather, bad roads, bad food, and irate customers. It can be difficult to deal with at times. Ask any...
The Pillars of a Trucking Business: What Are Transportation KPIs?
Key performance indicators (KPIs) are the metrics used to measure a company’s efficiency. KPI data reveals the strengths or weaknesses of the business. With this information, business owners can make informed decisions about any changes needed. ...
5 Ways a TMS and Technology Helps Truckers Stand Out From Competition
Did you know that 91% of large motor carriers now use trucking software? So, what do they know that you don’t? First, you should know that trucking management software (TMS) is not only for big fleet companies. Even if you have only one vehicle in...
From Paper Logs to Using an ELD: Tips to Have a Smooth Transition
The trucking industry is moving towards a technological approach. In fact, transitioning from manual driving logs to electronic logging devices (ELDs) became mandatory in most areas. However, there are still many trucking companies becoming familiar with the concept...
2021 Truckers Guide for Newbies
Newbies: How to Decide if Trucking is Right for You One of the best ways to find out if trucking is right for you is to talk to someone who has been doing it for years. He may talk about downsides such as the long hours alone, the awful weather, the bad food,...
How to Manage Your Trucking Business Software
What are you looking for in trucking management software? How do you want it to interact with your trucking business? That depends on your trucking business. If you’re leased on to a transportation company, you’re going to be required to use their...
From Dispatcher to Driver: How Our Trucking Management Software Can Help
A trucking business can be difficult to operate if you don’t have the right resources to work with. In today’s technology-driven industry, trucking businesses need the assistance of electronic tools and software, TruckingOffice.com is here to help. With tools such as...
Manage your trucking business expenses – including IFTA, IRP, HVUT
When you’re an owner-operator or a fleet manager of a trucking firm, you have a lot of numbers you must track – miles per state, fuel purchases, driver settlements, tolls, tools – you name it, there’s a number attached to it. To manage your...
Revolutionize Your Entire Trucking Operation With Our Trucking Management Software
Many responsibilities come with operating a trucking company. A solid trucking management software is a real asset to your company. You need to correctly plan out your dispatching and operations processes. Also, you must oversee cash flow by accurately eliminating...
3 Ways Trucking Software Will Improve Your Cash Flow
The trucking business is an important part of our country’s economy. There are thousands of businesses out there depending on trucking companies to help them meet their demands and stay afloat. Your trucking business may be the key to helping other businesses make a...
Trucking Software: Accounting Made Easy
Handling the accounting within any business is often a long and arduous task, and this can be especially true in trucking. There are multiple factors to consider in trucking accounting, including IFTA fees, mileage, fuel, and much more. With so many factors to juggle,...
This Online Trucking Solution Will Resolve Trucking Management Problems
The trucking industry is vital to the health of the American economy. An estimated 70% of the nation’s goods are transported by trucks. Therefore, nearly every business and household in the United States relies on the trucking industry. This trend is expected to...
The 3 Quickest Ways to Increase Cash Flow in a Trucking Business
While cash flow is important to every business, it is especially important to the trucking business. Cash flow can involve anything from checks to Paypal payments. In the trucking industry, customers can take 30 to 90 days to pay. This can greatly hinder your...
Starting a Trucking Business in the 2020s? Here’s What You Need to Know
Of all the modes of transportation in the United States, trucking is by far the most important. A staggering 80% of all cargo in the U.S. is transported by the trucking industry. This is four times the amount as air, rail, water, and pipeline combined. Additionally,...
The Work Truck Show
Indiana Convention Center NORTH AMERICA’S LARGEST WORK TRUCK EVENT Produced annually by NTEA – The Association for the Work Truck Industry, The Work Truck Show® features the latest vocational trucks, vans, vehicle components and truck equipment from 530...
Trucker Apps to Steer Your Trucking Company
When we talk about trucking in the 21st century, we naturally think about trucker apps. What’s more modern than the small box with all the answers in our hands? Or maybe on our dashboards, since our hands are supposed to be on the steering wheel… Trucking...
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...
Trucking Business Organization: Envelope, App or Email?
Did you see that recent video about young men trying to use a dial telephone? It took them nearly 4 minutes to figure it out – with coaching. There are days when we hear about truckers still using an old-fashioned envelope system to track their trucking...
Owner Operator Business Plan 6: Financial Statement
Building an Owner-Operator Trucking Business Plan Your business plan will have an executive summary a company overview a marketing plan a set of goals or milestones a list of the current staff a financial plan. TruckingOffice can help you as we break down each step of...
Owner Operator Business Plans 1: Executive Summary
Start Your Own Trucking Company For many men and women, finding a job isn’t enough. They want a career. To build a business. To create a legacy. For self-reliant people, trucking can help them achieve those things. It’s not an easy career. It can take...Reduce Your Fuel Taxes Now with IFTA Software
I’ll bet you’re not even thinking about your IFTA right now. Most truckers can barely keep up with the loads they’ve got to haul before the holidays – they’re not thinking about anything else right now. So why are we even talking about...
QuickBooks for Trucking? A look at IFTA
Is Quickbooks for trucking the right program for the IFTA? Think of your trucking business like a hamburger fresh off the grill. You cooked it just the way you want. The bun is waiting, the burger is still steaming and it’s time to add the ketchup and mustard...
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
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...
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...Free Load Profit Calculator for Truckers
How To Get Your Own Trucking Authority
Get Your Own Trucking Authority
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