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. Maintenance Tracking: Spreadsheets or TMS? The power of a great trucking management software program isn't...
Truck Maintenance SWOT
When trying to maintain your truck, it's important to prioritize your truck maintenance tasks. What's the most important? What can wait? To make these decisions, a SWOT analysis can help. SWOT Analysis You may have heard of SWOT analysis for businesses. It's a simple...
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...
IFTA Software for Beginners
Your IFTA filing is due tomorrow. Are you ready for your IFTA 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. It's already 1/3...
How Long Does IFTA Take?
How long does IFTA take? All the time you will let it take. It's called Parkinson's Law. Work will take all the time you set aside to complete it. There are entire books about it you can find on Amazon or at the library. Getting Your IFTA Done Faster Nobody wants to...
April IFTA and Taxes
Guess what I found on the internet? A 78-page research paper on why people procrastinate on their taxes. Seems a bit much, right? But April IFTA and our income taxes fall only 15 days apart. So procrastination just isn't an option this month. We have to get these...
Late IFTA Filing
It's not too late for your IFTA filing - yet. A late IFTA filing would be after April 30th, so you're safe for now. But why wait? It's human nature to avoid pain. We are programmed that way. And let's face it, filing IFTA is a pain. Take a look at your reasons for...
IFTA Due Date Extended to April 31st
Do you know the IFTA due date? They've delayed for an extra day this year to April 31st. April Fools! (There is no April 31st.) IFTA due date is still April 30, just like every April. Ever feel like you can't joke about IFTA? It is important, not only to file on...
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 business...
Reduce April’s IFTA Payment Now
2 Simple Steps to Reduce Your IFTA Payment 1. Compute your IFTA payment now. Take a minute* and figure out how much you will owe IFTA right now, if you didn't drive another mile. 2. Determine where you need to buy your next tank of fuel. Which state haven't you...
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