“Paint the town red On International Women’s day”

Do you know?
The First women trucker was Lillie McGee Drennan in 1929. She earned a Commercial driver’s license & Commercial motor vehicle license. She later became the sole owner of Drenne Truck Line, which was again first trucking company owned by a woman.

It’s crowd-pleasing that March 8th is celebrated as International Women’s day every year. In today’s time, countless women try on trucking alongside the men. Apart from driving, many of the hard working women truckers are into trucking industry from designing, manufacturing to driving them on open roads of harsh society. Most of the women work all day at home for family without day offs. She has to think of her crying baby on laps, husband who might be searching for his sock’s pair, her truck waiting out for its driver and so on… She has got the responsibility to put off their needs while few women fight for women rights, equality & social justice. March (Women’s history month) marks as a perfect chance to shake our hands with such vibrant women for letting them know how important they are. Let’s encourage them and respect them for what they are. No matter whom they are! Continue reading →

Give Your Eyes What They Need!

Do You Know?Eyes are the most active part in our bodyEye muscles are the strongest muscles in our body

Dear trucker, how long you are going to pay opticians? No more if you are reading me this minute. It is a blessing that every one of us have got a pair of eyes via what you rejoice in the beauty of the existing world. More of us take life as granted and never consider the consequences. Now, imagine that you have lost your eyesight. You could see nothing. Can’t watch TV, Laptop any more. Greater of all, you cannot drive anymore. Clear eyesight makes the world a better place to live in.

There are three pretty standard ways to strengthen your eye muscles & eye sight. You can just do it in truck stops. Let this be one of your 2013 resolutions.

  • Blinking
  • Palming
  • Eye exercises

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Where goes all my HVUT?

A right question in every trucker’s mind. Yes! You own the rights to ask. Your HVUT tax cures and heals the nation’s corridor, or so called roadways and highways. How important is the expressway which paves variety of merchandise and materials to pass on to the place you want to go. They are also the doorway for the public’s travel routine. You are the one who get much out these highways since you are lugging countless tons of goods every. Therefore, you are bonded to e-file IRS Tax Form 2290 as a lane to maintain these highway corridors. Continue reading →

Freight Transportation Trends That Make HVUT Important For Truckers

Hauling large quantities of commodities over great distances or carrying smaller packages to streets, each transportation mode adopted continues to play an important role in the movement of freight. Whether measured by value, weight, or ton-miles of the composite estimates, trucking as a single mode (including for-hire and private use), seems to be the most frequently used mode. According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), trucking dominates shipment distances of less than 500 miles while rail dominated the longer distance shipments. These trends and the below also gives an insightful message to truckers about their importance for the society’s economical growth. Paying truck tax to keep this going in accordance with Federal excise tax laws is equally important. Continue reading →

Highway Trust Fund – a safe destination for your HVUT

Trucker duties are delivery bound. So are the taxes they pay for their heavy trucks, to the Federal Government. The HVUT returns you file and taxes that you pay get transmitted to the IRS safely and the IRS in turn returns it to the Federal Funds Treasury. the amounts equivalent to these taxes are then transferred on paper to the HTF, Highway Trust Fund, a transportation fund established in 1956 to finance the United States Interstate Highway System and certain other roads. The revenues of the HTF are intended for financing highways, with the taxes dedicated to the HTF paid by the users of highways. Most of the tax amounts credited to the HTF’s Highway account (one of the three accounts of HTF) are not collected by the Federal government directly from the consumer. They are, instead, paid to the Internal Revenue Service by the producer or importer of the taxable product, except like for HVUT which is paid by the owner. Continue reading →