From LLCs to IFTA, We’ve Got You Covered

Apportioned plates confuse people because the bill does not look like a registration bill. You are not paying one state for one plate. You are paying your base state a single amount that it then divides among every jurisdiction you told it you would drive in, in proportion to the miles you said you would […]

“Trucking authority” is one of those phrases the industry uses constantly and defines rarely. It gets used to mean a number, a document, a permission and a business model, sometimes in the same conversation. If you are deciding whether to get your own, the first thing worth having is a clear definition, because most of […]

The pitch for running under your own authority is always the same: keep the percentage the carrier was taking. The pitch is true and it is also not the whole calculation. Here is what actually changes, with the recurring numbers where we can state them, so you can decide on arithmetic rather than on somebody’s […]

Most guides to getting trucking authority are written as a list of forms. That is not where new carriers actually get stuck. They get stuck because a requirement they had never heard of turns out to gate everything downstream, or because they satisfied a requirement in the wrong order and paid for the same thing […]