No Contract ELDs
A no contract ELD is a compliant electronic logging device you pay for month to month, without committing to a long-term (often year-long) contract. For owner operators and new truckers, it means staying compliant with the ELD mandate without getting stuck with a...
Don’t Depend on Rate Con Templates
Who told you, “Do it right the first time and you won’t have to do it again!” in your life? When it comes to creating rate cons, they were right. If you depend on rate con templates, you’re going to have to do it again. Who wants to do it...
Prevent Missing IFTA Records for Your Audit
The notice has arrived. An IFTA audit is scheduled in 30 days. A representative from IFTA will show up on your office doorstep and expect to see your mileage and fuel purchase records. And what do you have to show them? Or worse, what don’t you have available to...
Goal Setting for Your New Trucking Company
Are you new to the trucking industry? Getting started as an independent driver or owner-operator can be a costly investment that requires you to be making money from the start. For most of us, goal setting is an ideal way to make sure you’re making a profit as...
What Is a Rate Con?
A rate con, short for rate confirmation, is a legal document between a freight broker or shipper and a carrier that details the movement of a load from one location to another and confirms what the carrier will be paid. That’s pretty cut and dried. The question...
TruckingOffice Brokerage Software Produces Rate Cons
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...
Rate Con Change? ELD Updates Drivers ASAP
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...
Automatic Load Entry into TruckingOffice PRO
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...
Why Write a Trucking Business Plan?
Why write a trucking business plan? What’s the point? Writing a trucking business plan means reviewing where your business stands today and mapping where you want it to go, using the data from your own past rather than an AI-generated guess. That is what makes...Free Load Profit Calculator for Truckers
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