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Trucking Fleet Utilization: How to Measure your Fleet’s Efficiency

While minimalism may be a term best known in home decor, the concept is familiar in the supply chain. “How can we do more with less?” To address this question, business owners must understand how to calculate truck utilization and use fleet management metrics to...

The Owner-Operator’s Quick Guide to Taxes for Their Trucking Business

With the 2021 tax season in the rearview window, most Americans can breathe a sigh of relief. However, owner-operators know that the end of one tax season is the beginning of the next. A proper understanding of tax rules for truck drivers prepares owner-operators with...

How Much Do Freight Factoring Companies Charge & How Do Fees & Payback Work?

Financial strains are hard to deal with, even in the best of times. But with current levels of pressure, disruption, and uncertainty plaguing the shipping and transportation industry today, financial stresses are higher than ever before. Many fleet drivers and...

What Is Freight or Transportation Factoring, and What Are the Fees?

What is transportation factoring? This simple question carries a heavy load, and the way the answer gets presented and applied will significantly impact freight transportation and trucking companies of all sizes. Today’s pressures involved operating and managing a...

Why the Truck Driver Job is the American Dream…And How the Industry Has Failed Them

People across the United States consistently seek what the Declaration of Independence defines as “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” In today’s economy, the aspect of liberty, or freedom, is highlighted as one of the most important ones among social media...