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by TruckingOffice | Jan 22, 2018 | IFTA, Invoice, IRP, Maintenance, Reports, Taxes, Trucking Management

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...

ELD, IFTA and Cost Per Mile

by TruckingOffice | Jan 18, 2018 | ELD, IFTA, IFTA Filing, Invoice, IRP, Reports, Taxes, Trucking Management

Did you pick out an ELD program based on the IFTA? Maybe not. Most people don’t even think about IFTA when they’re picking an ELD? After all, the software for IFTA isn’t related to the ELD, is it? (Hint: It does, if you use TruckingOffice...

Trucking Business Organization 101

by TruckingOffice | Jan 15, 2018 | Maintenance, Organization, Trucking Management

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

by TruckingOffice | Jan 11, 2018 | ELD, IFTA, IFTA Filing, Invoice, Maintenance, Reports, Taxes, Trucking Management

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

by TruckingOffice | Jan 8, 2018 | IFTA, IFTA Filing, Invoice, Maintenance, Owner Operator, Reports, Taxes, Trucking Management, Trucking Software

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

by TruckingOffice | Jan 4, 2018 | IFTA, IFTA Filing, Invoice, Owner Operator, Trucking Management

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

by TruckingOffice | Jan 2, 2018 | IFTA, Invoice, Organization, Owner Operator, Reports, Taxes, Trucking Management

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...