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The Top 25 Ways for Truck Drivers to Improve Fuel Efficiency
Improving your fuel efficiency by 1 MPG can save you over $10,000 per year! Luckily for you, there are many simple ways to improve this....
Jun 30, 20234 min read
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What is a Fuel Surcharge?
A fuel surcharge is a mechanism in the trucking industry that helps balance the fluctuations in the cost of fuel. Incorporating a fuel...
Apr 5, 20223 min read
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Diesel Fuel Cards for Owner-Operators
When it comes to diesel fuel, you may have control over how much fuel you use or how efficiently you use it but you don’t have very much...
Mar 16, 20224 min read
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How Does The Rising Cost of Fuel Impact Your Business?
Find out how to manage rising fuel costs in your owner-operator business
Mar 12, 20225 min read
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How Truck Load Choice Affects an Owner-Operator's Fuel Costs
Fuel is expensive right now. This causes owner-operators to change how they manage truck load choices. There are two main factors we will...
Nov 1, 20213 min read
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Managing Your Cash Flow & Your Fuel
As an owner-operator, one of the most important pieces of your business that you need to manage is your cash flow. How much money (cash)...
Jul 23, 20213 min read
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How Does the IFTA Reporting System Work?
What is IFTA? The International Fuel Tax Agreement (IFTA) is a pact between the lower 48 states and the ten Canadian provinces that...
Jul 15, 20214 min read
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How to Make Your Truck More Fuel Efficient
Even though semi-trucks aren’t known for their fuel efficiency, there are steps you can take to help improve how much fuel you’re using....
Jun 17, 20215 min read
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How Much Are You Spending on Fuel Compared to Other Owner-Operators?
As we have now talked about a few times, as an owner-operator truck driver, fuel is your most expensive controllable cost. So are you...
May 19, 20213 min read
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How to Understand and Analyze Your Biggest Cost as an Owner-Operator
For any business, the formula for increasing profits is pretty simple - you’ve got to maximize your revenue and minimize your costs. And...
May 13, 20212 min read
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How to Drive a Truck for Maximum Fuel Efficiency
As a truck driver, there are some expenses you know are going to cost you the most from month to month. Unlike many of your other...
May 10, 20216 min read
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Why is the Price of Fuel Going Up?
No doubt, everyone that drives for a living has noticed the increase in fuel price over the last six months. We saw the national average...
May 1, 20212 min read
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What Does Fuel Mean to You?
Fuel: What does it mean to you? For many owner-operators, fuel is simply their largest annual business expense - a necessary evil on the...
Apr 1, 20212 min read
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How Fleets Can Save on Fuel Economy
Organizations that manage a fleet of vehicles can achieve significant savings by following certain fundamentals on sustainability and...
Nov 1, 20192 min read
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How to File a 2290 Tax Form
Form 2290 is the Heavy Highway Vehicle Use Tax Return. Any person operating a vehicle weighing more than 55,000 pounds is required to...
Mar 25, 20194 min read
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How to Winterize Diesel Fuel
If you operate in the northern half of the United States, diesel winterization should be a priority to keep you moving through the cold...
Nov 11, 20184 min read
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5 Things You Need to Know Before Switching to CNG
CNG is produced both domestically and worldwide at a relatively low cost and it burns cleaner than diesel fuels.
Dec 21, 20153 min read
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Save Your Tires; Improve Your Fuel Mileage
Two of the biggest costs in the trucking industry are fuel and tires. They are some of the expenses that eat into your profits more than...
Jul 11, 20153 min read
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Maximize Efficiency for Bigger Savings
A well-paying load is important, but long-term profits are built by looking at all areas of your trucking business. Owner-operators can...
Aug 15, 20145 min read
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How to Find the Engine Sweet Spot
We know you’ve heard this time and again, slow down to get better fuel mileage, but it’s not that simple. Getting the best fuel mileage...
Jul 22, 20142 min read
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