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Home Owned by Jim O'Donnell is the owner and I believe out of Fort Wayne?

Make saving for retirement a priority in 2018! Me talking with Brian Preston, The Money Guy, about ideas of how to save. This is the year to do it! Trucker Territory Progressive

Progressive Commerical Insurance has a website Trucker Territory. Much of the website is nothing spectacular one section though is very interesting. There is an area called the Money Tune-Up by The Money Guys and they are a hoot! Very good information given and they are fun to listen to as...

I created a video on tracking business receipts. At the end of the year this makes it very easy to have everything in order to give to our accountant.

Today I had an interesting thing happen at Walmart. In June of this year my Keurig Coffee pot malfunctioned and I needed to replace it. The Walmart we were near did not have a travel Keurig so I purchased a Fabreware coffee pot that uses KCups and while it is much cheaper it takes three times...

I have been using Quicken 2011 Home and Business and have never upgraded. I have Windows Parallels loaded on my Mac and I am wanting to get away from this. I have Quicken fine tuned to fit my needs and wonder if there is something else out there the might work? I do not like Quick Books at...

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Time to update your spreadsheet to get the new rates. IFTA, Inc.

IFTA has updated the Fuel Tax Charts and there are a few states that if the fuel price is checked near the state borders it would probably be cheaper to buy the higher priced fuel. These states and their fuel tax are ones to remember: Pennsylvania .642 New York .4005 Illinois .427 I have...

A question was asked of me the other day from a lady wanting to go from a full service accounting firm to one that would help her do much of her own bookkeeping without doing her taxes at the end of the year. They are not in the Expedite Industry and it sounded as if she had some book keeping...

We have reached the point in the year where if you have not downloaded your logs they are going to start disappearing and are not recoverable. 6 month is all they are stored at Qualcomm and after that you will have to recreate them from BOL's and receipts for tax purposes.

Wednesday February 18th 2015 Free Tax Webinar presented 4:00 EST Empowering owner-operators to discover important deductions and commonly overlooked expenses that can lower tax liability. Presented by President and CEO of ATBS Todd Amen

Qualcomm - Omnitracs only keeps 6 months of records https://dhos.omnitracs.com/dhm/ This works basically the same for any company using QualComm - or Omnitracs Once you are logged on go to report tab I always run mine from the 1st of the month to the last day of the month and store...

We have heard this over and over again and you are right! The fuel ticket will show the cash price usually and no discount. If you want to see the discount you have to log onto the discount cards page. We are now using Comdata with Landstar: Log onto Landstar and go to the money tab...

For those of you who remember Broompilot he is doing well and gave me an interesting tip. Each year both of us store our records in a clear plastic bucket with the year written on a card on the end of the bucket. This makes it easy to look at the buckets and see what year the bucket holds and...

Emergency Cash List of phone numbers Passports When we started going to bases a lot and getting searched I realized my way of stashing some emergency cash in the truck was not going to work. We purchased a lock box that is somewhat fire proof and water proof and will help to protect the...

In this past week I have talked to several different drivers with different carriers and on different fuel discount programs and everyone is talking about the discounts. We just bought fuel and received a discount of over .80 cents per gallon and others we have talked with have received even...

How do you track your cash expenses? I use Quicken and enter each cash expense and file the receipt away. This last year I decided to try something new so that I could find my receipts easier and I started assigning them a number. First I started out with a complicated system where the...

When entering the information on the fuel pump when it asks for trailer number we enter the odometer reading. This becomes my "check" number in Quicken for easy reference

Since we are know for always trying to get better fuel mileage here is a tip: Use a fuel book that sits in a cubby hole on the dash or in the door. This book started out for us as a way to keep track of how much fuel money we had loaded on our fuel card and in time it evolved to be much...