What are the most common mistakes that truckers encounter with taxes? Colton Lawrence, the Trucker CFO, will be exploring this important topic during this episode of our podcast series. As you’ll hear, Colton will be reviewing the most common tax mistakes that owner-operators, company drivers and fleet owners often make in preparing for and handling their tax responsibilities. Colton will be highlighting a number of real-life, relatable examples of situations and decisions ...

Through this episode of the podcast series, Trucker CFO Colton Lawrence will be tackling the topic of tax audits. In addition to covering the key points on this subject, Colton will be addressing many of the questions that owner-operators and independent contractors have related to tax audits. For more information on Trucker CFO, please visit https://truckercfo.com...

How important to your trucking business is properly handling paperwork? In this episode of our podcast series, Colton Lawrence, the Trucker CFO, will be discussing the various considerations that come into play involving the need for handing your paperwork in the right way. As part of the discussion, Colton will be talking about accurate record-keeping, collection of receipts, and other considerations related to handling the paperwork of your business. For more information ...

In this episode of the Trucker CFO Podcast, Colton Lawrence, the Trucker CFO, welcomes Robert Hazen back to the podcast. Robert is the Vice President of Tax Resolution Services for Trucker CFO, and he joins Colton on this edition of the podcast to discuss the potholes that can await people who see and hear national advertising for services working in the tax resolution field. As you’ll hear Robert and Colton discuss, these national services can make it sound like they can m...

In this edition of the Trucker CFO Podcast, we’ll be focusing on the key considerations that are a part of the business entity formation process while we look in detail at the S-Corp Election. You’ll be hearing from the Trucker CFO, Colton Lawrence, Colton will also be joined on the podcast by Robert Hazen, a member of the team at Trucker CFO. Greg Thompson, the Executive Producer for PodWheels Powered By RadioNemo, will be asking questions and Greg will serve as a tour g...

Recently, the FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) held its annual Brake Safety Week. It’s the annual commercial motor vehicle brake-safety inspection, enforcement and education initiative conducted by law enforcement agencies across North America. During Brake Safety Week, inspectors conduct their usual Level I and V inspections and report all brake-related data to the CVSA (Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance). Brake-related violations typically relate to th...

You would think that as large as trucks are compared to cars, everyone on the road would see them. While many might see you in a truck, a lot of the other motorists seem to be blind to trucks....

As we’ve seen over the past two and a half years, since COVID-19 became a consistency in daily life, the transportation industry has been hailed, in many cases, as a breeding ground for heroes. Along with the frontline hospital and medical workers who have been doing their best to keep us healthy, truckers, and especially expediters, were pressed to the forefront of the COVID battleground. Since it appears that we are definitely going to have to make do with living in a COV...

The following Q&A session between Expediters Online and Ellen Voie of Women In Trucking focuses on the organization’s fledgling days, the mission embarked upon, and the state of current affairs within a company that has shown tremendous growth and influence over the past 15 years. Expediters Online: Ellen, thank you so much for taking the time to talk with me today about Women In Trucking and all that you and your organization bring to the transportation industry. As wi...

Just recently some really good friends of ours were in Virginia to deliver a load.  They had a two stop drop off one in Winchester and Manassas and were parked at the first for the night to deliver in the morning.  This is when they started seeing Spotted Lanternflies.  Tons of them, and started to kill them.  That got us thinking we had not seen any articles or new information recently. The Sotted Lanternfly is indigenous to parts China and is a planthopper insect.  It ...