So what if you've met your trucking business goals?

First, congratulate yourself! Even if you didn't realize it while you were working - you still did it and deserve the praise - and a reward.

Second, after you're done celebrating with whatever your preferred beverage is, give some thought to these two things.

Resting on your laurels is fine, but now's the time to think bigger. Reset or revise your goals.

You may have set your goals too low and revising them will help you build on the work you’ve already accomplished. Already paid off a loan? Hit your revenue goal for the year?

Then consider expansion.

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The problem is that those are MONTHLY expenses in a business that's paid by the mile. Making that math work is the reason that we invented computers in the first place. (Well, that and World War II.)

That list is actually the easy part. For most of them, those are fixed expenses. It's the randomness of trucking that gives us headaches. Fuel costs. Tolls. Lumpers. New tires and brakes. When those expenses come up for trips or for maintenance, then converting those to a monthly expenses...

What's a trucker supposed to do?

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You can’t improve if you can’t measure. People who study industry have been saying this for 100 years. But trucking doesn’t have many obvious metrics that apply across the different types of trucking businesses. How do you compare a cross-country long-distance trucking company with one that handles drayage, moving freight from one transportation system to another?

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There are a lot of brokers and shippers out there who have decided to cut corners on their costs on the backs of truckers. They want the lowest possible price to haul goods. We understand that, right? They need to make money.

So do we.

No trucker should be hauling goods for a shipper who isn't paying enough for the load.

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In short, IFTA and IRP were expensive to manage. But with computers and systems like TruckingOffice PRO where the tax rates are updated regularly, a trucker can get those tax reports done in seconds. Literally seconds. From the cab. At a delivery dock. With TruckingOffice PRO, IRP and IFTA are simple and fast.

Just like the IRP and IFTA reports, Trucker Stats™ take the same numbers and crunch them in different ways.

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Top 10 Reasons an Owner-Operator Needs a Complete Trucking Software package. The difference between a failing and a successful trucking business is how well the trucking management software tracks their dispatches, invoices, and maintenance.

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