Spring Cleaning Your Truck
Oh, is it spring yet? Melting snow and increasing temps may lead owner-operators to think about what the springtime has in store. Who doesn’t want to see the end of this winter? As much as we take time to clean our rigs during the winter just to get the salt and...
What is a Blind Shipment and How to Handle One?
What Is a blind shipment? Is it different from a drop shipment? How does an owner operator trucker to handle one? A bill of lading lists the shipper, the address where the load was picked up, and the receiver, including the delivery address. Seems pretty...
What is Freight Shipping?
What is freight shipping? Simply put, freight shipping is the movement of goods from one location to another by land, sea, or air. Trucking is a critical part of that transportation chain. Trucks handle the last-mile delivery as well as hauling loads...
IFTA and Income Taxes Double Whammy
IFTA and Income Taxes in April Are there any two worse months than January and April for truckers? IFTA and quarterly taxes fall together all the time, but in April, we get the personal income tax too. Quarterly business taxes AND IFTA AND income taxes make these...
What is a Bill of Lading?
Every business transaction has paperwork. We can’t avoid it. The bill of lading in the transportation industry is a key piece of paperwork that documents what a trucker hauls and where and when it’s delivered. We often call a bill of lading a BOL. Bill of lading...
How Smart Owner Operator Truckers Eliminate Paperwork
We got this note from a trucking business owner operator recently. She says everything we hear all the time from other truckers about organizing their trucking business. Is TruckingOffice PRO the solution to this problem? HELP! I’m about to lose my mind! We have...
ELD for Private Fleets
Not all truckers work off a load board. For example, private fleets of trucks. These fleets aren’t for hire. They exist strictly for their companies. They haul for a business, like WalMart or Pepsi. Those fleets are huge! And those truckers need an ELD system...
Work Truck Week
Generally, TruckingOffice focuses on long-distance truckers and owner-operators who have their own trucking authority and small businesses. Small fleet managers and fleet builders use TruckingOffice for trucking software and ELD. So Work Trucks might not look like...
How to Prepare for an IFTA Audit
Filing a quarterly IFTA report and paying on time do not guarantee you’ll avoid an IFTA audit. Every IFTA jurisdiction is required to audit at least 3% of its accounts each year, which means any carrier can be selected—even if your filings are accurate and up to...Free Load Profit Calculator for Truckers
How To Get Your Own Trucking Authority
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