Become an Owner-Operator from a Delivery Driver
If you've been driving a delivery truck for a company, maybe you're starting to think bigger about your career. Is hauling soda or beer around the county going to give you the life style you want? Maybe you're thinking about long distance trucking and want to find out...
Trucking Business Management Crisis Solution
Do you like figuring out a Sudoku puzzle? Sometimes when numbers not in the right place - you have to go to the solution to figure out what went wrong. It can be the same for a trucking business. The wrong name or the wrong number and suddenly, the invoicing is a...
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 Company...
Trucking Business Management
Seen on I-77 just south of Akron last week: a repair truck. A semi. A little car with a road gator peeking out beneath it - with a muffler in it. A cop. It tells the whole story right there, doesn't it? A trucker lost a tire and it did some major damage to a car -...
IRP Best Practices: Deleting Vehicles
The (IRP) International Registration Plan is an arrangement that allows for the allocated registration of vehicles used for commercial purposes. This gives a commercial vehicle that is eligible the chance to travel through more than one region using a single license...
Building Your Trucking Business Goals
Six months ago, we posted a series of blog posts about your trucking business - in particular, writing a business plan for your owner-operator trucking company. Did you do it? Setting Trucking Business Goals Are you seeing your company moving toward your business...
Running an IFTA Report
For a lot of owner-operators and company drivers, it is a bit complex to understand the (IFTA) International Fuel Tax Agreement. Drivers who have knowledge of the history of IFTA and the reason as to why it was developed, believe they will be able to make more...
IFTA and TMS Together
Some things just go together. Peanut butter and jelly. Peanut butter and chocolate. Peanut butter and bananas… I’m sensing a trend here. You know what else goes together? IFTA and TMS. IFTA and TMS There are a lot of things that have to work together...
How Does the IFTA Fuel Tax Work?
The IFTA stands for the International Fuel Tax Agreement. It is an agreement between the lower 48 states in the U.S. and 10 provinces in Canada which simplifies fuel tax reporting. Trucking companies travel between jurisdictions on a daily basis. Without this...
Simple IFTA Fuel Tax Filing
Some truckers like to get their hands into their engines and handle much of their own maintenance. Other truckers spend a lot of time trying to find the ideal routes and the best loads. But nobody wants to manage IFTA. If only there were a simple IFTA fuel...
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