Articles for owner-operators and small fleets: pay, taxes, per diem, fuel costs and running a trucking business, from a CPA who builds trucking spreadsheets.
A trucking profit and loss statement (P&L) is the report that shows where a trucking business’s money comes from and where it goes. It puts revenue, variable costs and fixed costs on one page and ends with net profit. This…
Every owner-operator keeps books, and most choose between two tools: accounting software or a spreadsheet. Each has real strengths and real costs. This guide covers both for trucking, plus the options in between: trucking spreadsheet templates and a trucking bookkeeping…
About 2.1 million people work as heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers in the U.S., according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (May 2025). Whether trucking pays in 2026 comes down to a few numbers: fuel, operating costs, freight rates and…
