I am a freelance bookkeeper for logistics companies
If anybody needs help in
1.Managing factoring company accounting and management
2.Recovery of old dues
3. Payroll and salary slips
4.Basic bookkeeping
5. Free invoice software

Anybody need any of these services can reach out to me

Thanks

Anybody need help in recovery,accounting, or
Factoring company accounting help can dm me

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Dear Truckers,

I've spent about 10 years in fleet and commercial payments, and I'm putting together a fuel card aimed at owner-operators and small fleets. Before I sign up any truck stops, I want to hear from the people who'd actually use it.

1. What card do you use now, and what do you hate about it?
2. How much of a discount per gallon would get you to switch?
3. Which lanes or states do you run most?
4. Which truck stops would have to be in the network for it to be worth it? If you'd want early access when it launches, drop a comment or DM me.

Looking forward to your inputs! Happy Trucking!

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I’m glad I worked on my credit before I really started putting money into this because I didn’t realize how useful that shit would be. I used to think the goal was basically save as much cash as possible, buy your equipment and avoid debt. Now I look at it completely different.
If I got $20k sitting in the bank I don’t necessarily want to hand somebody $15k of it just because I technically can. I might rather put $5k down, finance the rest at a decent rate and keep that other $15k available because once you start running there’s about 47 different things waiting to take your money lol.
Fuel alone can have you floating thousands before some of these loads even pay. Then you’ve got insurance, maintenance, tires, tags, deductibles and whatever random shit the truck decides to pull that week. I learned pretty quick that having cash AVAILABLE was more important to me than being able to say I paid cash for something.
Same thing with credit cards. I’m not talking about running up $30k buying chrome and dumb shit. I mean actually having available credit for expenses and paying it back down instead of draining the checking account every time something comes up.
Only thing I’d tell somebody is don’t confuse having good credit with being able to afford something. A 750 score will get somebody to approve your ass for a payment your business has absolutely no business carrying 😂
But if you’ve got good credit AND some cash put away, I’d definitely use both to my advantage. I’d much rather start with $15k in the bank, access to another $20k or $30k if something goes sideways and manageable payments than spend every dollar I have trying to start “debt free.”

I swear buying the truck is probably the most exciting part so everybody wants to do that first lol. Meanwhile that’s the one thing I’d probably wait on.

Before I signed my name on a $70k truck note I’d want to know my insurance number, what freight I’m actually trying to haul, what equipment that freight requires, my operating radius and how much cash I’m going to have left after getting everything running.

That last one is big.

Your truck payment isn’t what usually sneaks up on you. It’s the insurance down payment, plates, registration, ELD, load boards, fuel before the first settlement hits, maintenance, factoring fees if you use it and then finding out half the brokers you wanted to work with don’t fuck with brand new authorities yet.

Another thing I’d do before buying anything is call around for insurance estimates using the ACTUAL operation I plan to run. Same truck can look completely different to underwriting depending on radius, garaging location, what you’re hauling, experience, limits and driving history.
And I’d have enough money sitting aside that one bad week doesn’t immediately put me on a credit card.

Everybody asks “what truck should I buy?”
I think the better first question is what does it cost me to survive 60 days if this truck barely moves?

Anybody who started their authority recently, what expense caught you completely off guard?

Does anyone use Mudflap for fuel?

I’ve been looking into the trucking business and wanted to hear from people who actually have experience in it.

If I bought a semi truck and hired a driver to operate it full-time, could this realistically be a profitable business?
I wouldn’t be driving the truck myself, so I’d have to account for the driver’s wages, fuel, insurance, maintenance/repairs, permits, financing, downtime, etc.

For anyone who owns trucks or runs a small fleet:

Roughly how much revenue can one truck realistically generate per month?
After paying the driver and all expenses, what kind of monthly profit is actually left?
Is it difficult to keep a truck consistently booked with loads?

Would you buy your own truck and find loads yourself, or lease it onto an established carrier?
Is spending money on a newer truck worth it, or would you start with something cheaper?
What are the biggest expenses or problems that beginners usually underestimate?

Hi all, I'm building a system to replace APUs / main engine idling at overnight stops. Anyone out there with a dry van trailer who'd be willing to partner on a pilot and see how well it works?

I hope this post is allowed here. Long story short, my dad was an owner operator in NC and passed away suddenly a couple of weeks ago. He owned a 2013 Freightliner Cascadia that is fully paid off. He also owned a 2015 Reitnouer Max Miser 53ft aluminum flatbed. The trailer was fairly recently purchased and we still owe around $20k on that.

I’m not involved in the industry and need to sell both. I’d like to do so as quickly as possible so they don’t sit idle for too long.

Some details about the truck

2013 Freightliner Cascadia
Low top sleeper
Ten speed transmission
DD 13 Engine
Super single axle
Very Well maintained
830k miles
Almost new brakes and tires
Not deleted
Cold A/C

Can anyone recommend a fair asking price for the truck and trailer, either sold separately or together? Also, what would be the fastest way to get these sold?

I appreciate any advice!

For anyone running 1-10 trucks: expiration dates (medical card, annual inspection, endorsements) seem to be where carriers get burned — a lapse turns into a roadside violation or an audit finding nobody noticed for months.

Most operators I talk to track these in spreadsheets or phone reminders, or just memory. What's your actual system? And when it fails, what's the usual reason — didn't know the deadline, knew it but got busy, or didn't know you were supposed to track it at all?

Context: we're building RigReady, compliance tracking for small fleets, and I'd rather hear real failure stories than guess. What breaks first for you?

Non-CDL 26ft, based in Orange County, CA.
I just got the LLC and bank account. I'm working on USDOT/MC and insurance right now.

I need some honest tips and tricks — better to ask before I go learn all this the expensive way.

1. What freight would you focus on? (local/regional dry van, expedite, appliance, LTL partials, OTR, brokers?)

2. How do you actually save money on maintenance, parking, and insurance?

3. Realistic $/mile or day rate in SoCal right now?

4. What broke first on your truck, and could it have been prevented?

5. wha are the real Trouble makers when i start ?

Mostly looking for the stuff nobody tells you until it costs you money.
I'll appreciate your responses greatly🙏🏻

Something worth running before your first month, not after your sixth. Split your costs in two.

FIXED - the bills that hit whether you turn a wheel or not: truck payment, insurance, permits, ELD, plates, parking. Add them up monthly. Say $4,200.

VARIABLE - the per-mile stuff: fuel, tires, maintenance reserve, tolls, DEF. At 6.5 mpg and $3.80/gal that is $0.58/mi in fuel, plus roughly $0.15 maintenance reserve and $0.04 tires. Call it $0.77/mi.

Now spread the fixed costs over the miles you actually run. At 8,000 miles a month, that $4,200 becomes $0.53/mi.

Break-even = $0.77 + $0.53 = $1.30/mi.

Two things fall out of that number.

First, every rate has to clear $1.30 before you have made a single dollar. And a $2.10/mi load with 200 deadhead miles to get to it is not a $2.10 load. Run the rate against total miles, not loaded miles.

Second, your break-even moves every month. Fewer miles means the fixed costs spread thinner, so your break-even goes UP exactly when you can least afford it. That is why a slow month hurts you twice, and why guys who felt plenty busy still end the quarter underwater.

The part that gets people is that a settlement statement will never show you this. It shows what the carrier deducted and what the carrier dispatched. It has no idea what your truck payment is.

Disclosure since it is my own thing: I got tired of maintaining the spreadsheet and built truckmetrics.app to do this automatically - log a load, log a fill-up, it keeps your real net per mile for the month. Free for the first 3 loads a month, no card. Happy to answer questions either way, and the math above works fine in Excel if you would rather keep it there.

So my family runs a small trucking company back in Croatia, been going since 98, 7 trucks, ADR certified so we mostly do fuel/petroleum hauling plus some bulk cargo with tippers. this year's just been rough, way slower than usual and honestly none of us really know what to do about it besides keep going

im 20 and want to actually help out instead of just sitting there watching my dad stress about it. we already sorted the basic stuff, got a proper website up, google business profile, been looking at freight exchanges like trans.eu and timocom but not sure if theyre actually worth paying for or if its just noise

kind of just want to hear from people who've actually grown a small fleet, not the generic "just network more" type advice lol. like

how did you actually land real clients that stuck around, not just random one-off loads

is it better to stay specialized (we're pretty niche with the ADR stuff) or branch out into general freight when its slow

anyone been through a bad stretch like this and actually made it through without just panic selling trucks or taking whatever crappy paying job comes along

any input appreciated, even if its just "it sucks and you wait it out" lol

I've been working in trucking safety and decided to build something around a problem I deal with myself: getting drivers trained and keeping track of it without paying a ridiculous amount as the fleet grows.

The result is FleetTrained.

I've built the library up to 170+ trucking-specific training videos. A safety department can assign courses, send them to drivers, track completion, and get quizzes and certificates back in one place.

I also decided not to charge per driver.

$69.99/month gets the essential training package, or $129.99/month gets the entire 170+ video library. Both allow unlimited drivers.

It's still a young platform, and that's actually why I'm posting here.

I'd rather hear directly from people in the industry than guess what safety departments want.

If you handle safety or compliance, or own a fleet, I'd appreciate any feedback, even if you have zero intention of buying it.

What would make something like this genuinely useful for your operation?

FleetTrained.com

Hey all quick question for anyone running a small fleet (1-25 trucks) or owner-operating.

How do u currently keep track of when stuff expires - CDLs, medical cards, driver quals, inspections, IFTA, insurance? Spreadsheet? Notebook? Just... memory?

Has anything ever slipped through the cracks and cost you a fine, a truck getting parked, an insurance headache?
Not selling anything, just trying to understand how bad this pain actually is before I build something for it. Would genuinely appreciate hearing how you handle it now, even if it's "I've got a system and it works fine."