by TruckingOffice | Oct 20, 2025 | Brokerage, Customer Development, Freight Sales
Starting out in a freight brokerage business can be difficult. If a new broker doesn’t have a good network of potential shippers, it’s a huge challenge to build a business. So how do new brokers find freight shippers? Once you land new customers, you need...
by TruckingOffice | Oct 13, 2025 | Owner Operator, Trucking Management, Trucking Software
Winter trucking isn’t the same as summer on the road. The weather is obvious. Rain, sleet, snow, puddles around the fuel pumps, and that one guy in shorts who’s filling his fuel tank like it’s July. While a sunny day in midwinter might be pretty with...
by TruckingOffice | Oct 6, 2025 | DOT Rules and Regulations, Maintenance, Trucking Software
Talking about the weather is boring. But we have to pay attention to the changing seasons in the trucking industry the same way any outdoor business must. Driving loads across the country or even just across the city can be an easy trip or into a blizzard. Truck...
by TruckingOffice | Sep 29, 2025 | Owner Operator, Reports, Taxes, Trucking Software
Trucking company expenses are the costs of running your trucking business, and you manage them by recording every dollar that leaves your pocket and then reviewing your own business history. If you want to control trucking company expenses, it’s not complicated....
by TruckingOffice | Sep 22, 2025 | Brokerage, Owner Operator, Trucking Authority
Some owner operator businesses look for ways to expand their company. The bottom line needs to go up – but the funds to invest in another rig or a secondary driver just aren’t in the bank. So they move laterally as a freight broker for other drivers. It...
by TruckingOffice | Sep 15, 2025 | Owner Operator, Reports, Trucking Software
In the trucking industry, the owner operator is a major component. Sure, contracts with shipping companies are a major factor, but we know that half of the truckers on the road are independent. Those truckers have the freedom to choose their loads, but also the...
by TruckingOffice | Sep 8, 2025 | Driver Logbook, ELD, Electronic Logging Device, Owner Operator
Looking at the cost of running an owner operator trucking business isn’t just for newbies to the industry. Examining every expense may be tedious, but it’s critical to keeping a trucking company running. We talk often about Trucker Stats™ – data...
by TruckingOffice | Sep 1, 2025 | IFTA, Invoice, Trucker Stats, Trucking Management, Trucking Management Software, Trucking Software
Trucking accounting software is bookkeeping and business-management software built for the way trucking actually works — pay by the mile, per-trip expenses like tolls, lumpers and fuel, and fuel taxes such as IFTA and IRP that no other industry files....
by TruckingOffice | Aug 25, 2025 | Owner Operator, Reports, Trucker Stats, Trucking Software
When building a trucking company, how can anyone know if a trip is profitable? How can you know how much profit per load a trucker is making? Want the big-picture view of your monthly costs? See Trucker Success with Trucker Stats™ for how TruckingOffice PRO turns...
by TruckingOffice | Aug 18, 2025 | Reports, Trucker Stats, Trucking Management, Trucking Software
A trucking company profit and loss statement (P&L) is a financial report that shows a carrier’s income, expenses, and the resulting profit or loss over a specific period. It answers one question: did the trucking business make money? A P&L is not the same as a...
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