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Avoiding Truck Tire Hazards

Protecting your fleet’s tires is vital to business success for freight companies. Failing to keep tires intact can easily spell disaster, with every drive potentially leading closer to danger. Even so, danger and damage can ... Read more

Hands-Free Devices are Still Dangerous for Truckers

Since transportation industry success is based on traveling the road, driver distraction is the last thing a trucking business needs. Mobile devices continue to rapidly evolve, but a new study was conducted by the AAA ... Read more

Obama Proposes New Truck Emissions Reduction Standards

This week, President Obama revealed a new plan to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, which included establishing new fuel-efficiency standards for heavy-duty trucks after 2018 and increasing the use of compressed natural gas as a fuel ... Read more

Affordable Care Act: What it Means for Trucking Companies

Editor’s Note: This article contains outdated content, but has been left up for anyone searching for this information. Check the Factor Finders blog section to find our more recent content. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), ... Read more

New Hours-of-Service Legislation Leaves Industry Upset

Commercial Carrier Journal reported that trucking shareholders outlined shortcomings in the new hour-of service regulation on behalf of fleets, owner-operators, and the enforcement sector at a House subcommittee hearing this week, where Federal Motor Carrier ... Read more

How to Start an Owner-Operator Trucking Business

Thinking about starting your own owner-operator trucking business and being your own boss? Before you opt to leave your current employer and that reliable paycheck, here are some questions to ask yourself and factors to ... Read more

Unpaid Invoices? 5 Ways to Help Ensure Payment

Unpaid invoices can slow your business’s growth and cause cash flow troubles for your company. Here are some tips on how to help ensure you receive payment from customer invoices. Be Consistent Having a reliable ... Read more

Independent Truckers Reclassified by New Jersey Bill

According to FleetOwner, an employee misclassification bill that would reclassify both drayage-truck operators and parcel-delivery truckers as employees—rather than independent contractors—was passed by New Jersey’s General Assembly and the State Senate last week and is ... Read more

Raising FMCSA Standards May Harm Owner-Operators

Editor’s note: This article contains outdated content but has been left up for anyone searching for this information. Check the EZ Invoice Factoring blog section to find our more recent content. Research released by a group of ... Read more

Trucking Remains Top Mode of Freight Transportation

Trucking hasn’t lost its edge on the road and remains the top method of travel in the freight transportation industry. The American Trucking Association recently released their ATA American Trucking Trends 2013 report that illustrated ... Read more

How Will Health Care Reform Impact Trucking Companies?

Health care reform, also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, will be fully implemented by January 1, 2014. Health care reform applies to all businesses, so of course freight carriers and truckers ... Read more

9 Trucking Tips for Owner-Operators

Top 9 Trucking Tips for New Owner-Operators

Are you an owner-operator or thinking of becoming one? The trucking industry can get competitive and as it grows, there are more opportunities to make money independently. Becoming can owner-operator presents the chance to be ... Read more

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