5 Reasons You Should Combine Your TMS with Your ELD
By now, you and everyone else in the trucking industry are familiar with the terms ELD and TMS. But, lately, maybe you’ve heard some talk about combining the two. And are wondering whether you should do this, and why. So, to help you understand why this is...
5 Reasons Our TruckingOffice Software is Unbeatable
If you own a trucking business, you already understand how frustrating it can be when you get disorganized around the office. It can take a long time to get back on track with all the paperwork to fill out and file and invoices to send in. But if you have access to...
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...
Overworked? Here’s How Our Trucking Management Software Can Cut Your Workload in Half
Do you have a reliable trucking management software? One may think that there isn’t too much that goes into running a trucking company. To someone on the outside looking in, you are simply transporting goods from one place to another. However, it can be...
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...
How to Get The Most Out of Your Trucking Management Software
Trucking management software is designed to make life much easier for those who work in the trucking industry. And thanks to many modern advancements, these programs have been successful with doing just that. Having the right system in place to help you manage all the...
Trucking Management Software: One-Stop Shop for ELD, IFTA and Payroll
Are you using a reliable trucking management software? There is a lot more that goes into running a trucking company than simply taking orders from clients and ensuring deliveries arrive on time. You need to make sure your drivers are keeping track of their time on...
16-Hour Short-Haul Exemption
For certain truckers, there is a 16-hour short-haul exemption that is available under certain circumstances. Short Haul A short-haul is a trucker who hauls a load and returns home the same day. These truckers may cross state lines, but they consistently return home...
Trucking Management Software: Save Time and Increase Cash Flow
Disorganization can be a terrible enemy when it comes to running a trucking business. It leads to constant wasted time and money in every area of the business. Whether it be more time spent compiling reports or having to manually record fuel or maintenance costs, this...
Know Your Numbers: How to Run Your Trucking Business More Efficiently
The trucking industry keeps the United States’ economy flowing. Without truck-drivers hauling resources on the road, a great number of industries would come to a stand-still. Around 71% of the United State’s freight is moved by trucks. This equates to nearly 11...
Expense & Maintenance in Trucking: Guide to Managing Flow With TMS
Running a successful trucking company is all about the numbers. Owner-operators are constantly running the numbers to determine how their business is doing. These calculations are what ultimately drive the business decisions they make to enhance their company’s...
Three Reasons Truckers Choose TMS
When getting started, many newbies think that succeeding in the trucking industry is going to be a breeze. But, barely a few months into the business, they quickly learn that maintaining a fleet of trucks is no easy feat. Performing nearly immeasurable tasks –...
TMS 101: Guide to Trucking Management Software
Accurate tracking, truck maintenance, and timely billing are just a few of the challenges trucking companies face. There is also the matter of keeping costs low and staying compliant with industry mandates. Therefore, if you’re overwhelmed with spreadsheets and...
IFTA ELD and TMS: What They Mean
How many random letters can you throw into a trucking discussion? IFTA ELD TMS IRP If you’re already crying uncle, imagine being a new trucker and trying to understand our lingo. IFTA ELD IFTA is the International Fuel Tax Agreement. 57 different jurisdictions...
Trucking Management Software: Free vs. Paid
Aah, so you have decided to start a trucking company! Great idea! Whether you own one truck or a large fleet, there’s a good chance that you have considered getting a trucking management software (TMS) to optimize operations. The reason why you need one is apparent;...
Maintenance Tracking with TMS
If you’re going to use trucking software to track your truck maintenance, you might as well get the full picture of what’s going on in your trucking business. What is TMS? TMS means trucking management software. The programs use technology to help...
IFTA Software for Beginners
Your IFTA filing is due tomorrow. Are you ready for your quarterly filing? Tomorrow is only 24 hours away. Are you staying home today to get it done? You probably don’t want to think about the 2nd quarter IFTA right now. But maybe we should think about it....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...
Truck Maintenance Software or Trucking Management Solution?
You probably have something set up to be your truck maintenance software if you’re running a fleet of trucks. You simply cannot keep track of the maintenance requirements in your head. Or on your calendar. TruckingOffice PRO has you covered. Too many...
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...
Why You Must Do the IFTA Filing
What happens if you don’t file the IFTA? Do you really want to know? The consequences to not filing start at mildly annoying and move up to painful and expensive. The citation is only the first step. Tickets costs vary from state to state, but the fines will...
QuickBooks Is Not Your IFTA Solution
QuickBooks is probably the best-known small business software out there. I hear a lot of owner-operators tell me that it’s how they manage their finances. I can understand that for those people who are running a small fleet and have a bookkeeper. On one hand,...
Record Keeping: Why you must organize your owner-operator business
Happy New Year! Did you make any resolutions – especially about organizing your trucking business? Welcome to the club. Resolutions are one of those traditions that we recognize. Not keeping those resolutions is also part of the tradition. How well do you...
Truck Maintenance at the End of the Year
After days on the road, coming home might mean there’s a list waiting: the Honey-Do list. It’s not that those people at home can’t do those tasks themselves. Maybe they want to enjoy watching you do them. Maybe it’s a team effort. But home...
What to Buy a Trucker for Christmas
The Trucker Who Has Everything When you’re gift shopping for a trucker who’s been on the road for a while – they probably already have everything that they need. Or at least, everything that they think they need. Trucking in the future is not going...
Off the road? Use your time building your owner-operator business
It’s the last week of the busiest shipping season and you’ve probably moved more freight in the past two months than the first six months of the year. As an owner-operator, that’s a tough way to run a business. We can’t deny that...
Trucking with Smartphones
I listened to a trucker podcaster recently. He talked about a rough survey he took at a truck stop one day this year. Less than half of truckers use smartphones. That surprised us. Smartphones go with trucking like french fries and ketchup. Why aren’t...
How to Reduce Your Taxes with IFTA Software Now
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...
How to Pick the Best Truck Driver Log App
Looking for any truck driver log app isn’t any easier now than it was 5 years ago when the ELD mandate was put in place. There are still too many bad apps written without the trucker in mind. That’s why we at TruckingOffice decided that keeping the rules...
Black Friday and Cyber Monday: LTL Trucking Success
Black Friday and Cyber Monday can’t happen without truckers. Black Friday got its name from the custom of retailers to write their losses in red in and their profits in black. Black Friday is the day that most retailers put the red ink away for the year. Cyber...
ELD Value and Service Commitment by TruckingOffice
We saw this article about the ELD delay request from Indiana. It seems that the attorney general is questioning the validity of self-certification of the ELD equipment currently on the market. We know that older electronic logging devices don’t comply with the...
Owner Operator Trucking Business Software: Cyber Monday 2017 Special Offer
Keep Your Owner Operator Trucking Business Going and Growing Whether you’re a long-time owner-operator or new to the field, you know that the only way to build a successful owner-operator trucking business is to have a way to keep the business end working....
Maximize Your TruckingOffice Free Trial
Did you just sign up for your TruckingOffice free trial of our trucking management software to get your IFTA done fast? You’ve filed your IFTA in record time and now… what? How can you maximize your TruckingOffice free trial? It would be pretty sad to just...
Eliminate Your IFTA Without Giving Up Trucking
No, I’m not going to tell you to give up interstate driving. But I am going to tell you to eliminate your IFTA struggle in a perfectly legal way. It’s just like ice cream. Have you ever made ice cream? It’s not hard to mix everything up. Milk,...
Doing Your IFTA Filing in Your Cab
Can you imagine doing your IFTA in your cab? Not if you’re using paper log books. I can’t imagine trying to keep those on my bunk along with all the receipts, the calculator, a calendar, and my credit card or checkbook without everything spilling onto the...
IFTA Preparation Software for the 21st Century
Our IFTA preparation software can save you money and endless hassle. But is that all it should do? Do you remember long nights sitting hunched over your desk or dining table, calculating and recalculating? Drinking stale coffee, and hoping that you’ve done all the...
Free IFTA Calculators Aren’t So Free
I typed the words “FREE IFTA” in a Google search tonight. I didn’t think I’d find anything, but sure enough, there was a free IFTA calculator on the screen. But was it free? Technically, it’s free for you to enter your data – for...Free Load Profit Calculator for Truckers
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