by TruckingOffice | Apr 21, 2025 | Brokerage, Trucking Management
A rate con or rate confirmation is a legal document that details the movement of a load from one location to another. That’s pretty cut and dried. The question “What is a rate con?” needs a much bigger answer. Because a rate con is the basis for all...
by TruckingOffice | Apr 14, 2025 | Brokerage
When starting a truck brokerage company, it may sound like a good idea to use free Google software. Free is good, right? Start-ups always look for ways to cut costs to keep the overhead down. But when we’re talking about brokerage software and rate cons, free...
by TruckingOffice | Apr 7, 2025 | Trucking Software
Compared to a decade ago, keeping in touch with a long-distance truck driver these days is easier. Cell phones and emails can reach almost everywhere in the US. But it’s not perfect. Having a backup system to notify drivers of updates is valuable to prevent...
by TruckingOffice | Mar 31, 2025 | Trucking Software
You get your rate con PDF from a broker or shipper via email these days. So why should you have to copy/paste – or worse, TYPE! – that data into your trucking management software? It’s the 21st Century! Where’s the automatic load entry into my...
by TruckingOffice | Mar 24, 2025 | Trucking Software
Why write a trucking business plan? What’s the point? We could sound like some overbearing school teacher. “Do you want to build your trucking business?” Or that person in the family – you know who we’re talking about. “Do you want...
by TruckingOffice | Mar 17, 2025 | Trucking Software
You know that feeling you get when you read a question with a bunch of abbreviations and you know what all of them mean? That’s how we felt when we looked at this. We know the ELD is electronic logging device and TMS is trucking management software. So the...
by TruckingOffice | Mar 10, 2025 | Trucking Software
Do you hate your ELD? Many truck drivers do. It’s one of those pieces of equipment that truckers are stuck with, it costs too much, and the consequences of it not working can be dire. Whether you call it an ELD or an E-Log, truckers need equipment that’s...
by TruckingOffice | Mar 3, 2025 | Trucking Software
As a new broker looking at truck brokerage software, a key component of any software platform is ease of use. (If you can’t find what you need quickly, it’s a waste of money.) How do you know if a brokerage package is easy to use? First, you try it out....
by TruckingOffice | Feb 24, 2025 | Trucking Software
In years past, we’ve written a lot about your trucking company business plan. How to write it, how to use it, how it is the core of building a successful trucking company – whether it’s a fleet or an owner-operator company. But it’s 2025, and...
by TruckingOffice | Feb 17, 2025 | Trucking Software
If you’re starting a truck freight brokerage business, you’re starting an exciting adventure. Lots of challenges, but potentially very profitable – as long as you can control the chaos. Staying organized is key to sticking with your new business when...
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