How To Use the Gap Spreader

The management software, TRUCKeSERVICES, provides unique tools like the Gap Spreader to facilitate your IFTA filing needs. Below is a breakdown of when and how to correctly use the Gap Spreader tool. IFTA Best Practice Guide The IFTA Best Practice Guide describes...

Audits on Electronic Data

At the IFTA Audit Workshop I watched the same presentation on GPS Audits three times. There was a LOT of great information, great questions, and great feedback. ELDs are being used to create IFTA returns, and this can be great, or it can be not so great. Naturally it...

ELD Mandate Anniversary

December 2018 is the first anniversary of the ELD mandate and – wow – have we learned a lot! Time to share!! I’ll get us started.... A Short Refresher The ELD mandate came about as a way to better manage driver’s Hours of Service. But the technology has a much wider...

4 Tips If You’re Using Your ELD For Your IFTA

This year the NATSA conference was ALL about technology. What’s changing. What’s staying the same. Both inside the truck and at the office. The biggest change rocking the industry is still ELDs. There are those who want to use their ELD strictly and only to meet the...

TeS Newsletter

Fall Newsletter 2018 IFTA Permit Expires 12/31/2018 Renewals start 10/1/2018 Grace Period thru 2/28/18 -- if reporting current and renewal application submitted on time. Oregon and New Mexico Permit Expires 12/31/2018 Renewals begin 10/1/2018 UCR Renewals Expires...

Starting a Trucking Business

Our new customers are often frustrated because they weren't aware of what they need to be compliant as a new trucking company. It can be tedious and often expensive to try to catch up. In an effort to assist our current and new customers, we've compiled a list of the...

How To Prepare and File IFTA Tax Returns – The Real Easy Way?

So much is in the wind these days about how ELD’s and their providers make IFTA tax filing easy. Well, the feedback I am getting is . . . NOT!!!! And there are lots of reasons! First, and foremost, most of the hardware manufacturers have not been in the business of...

How to Assign Customer Accounts to Your Employees

From a paid prepare prospective account: Need to "Add Staff": Contact Name Email Address Password Security Questions Then you go to that client's account "Dashboard" and assign work under "Work Flow". You provide the period based on dates to assign and select your...

Why IFTA Preparers Are Still Needed

I get asked this question, or some version of it, every single day: “Will I lose my IFTA business to ELDs?” “Have you lost any customers to ELDs?” “How can I keep my customers after they get an ELD?” “How do I get customers back?” The short answer to all these...

Florida Tax Rate Change Number

Florida made a late change to their tax rate for 1Q18. We are using the updated rate because it's correct and it's higher. Individual states are not required to honor late changes to tax rates, and it's up to Florida to reconcile any over/under payments later, so...