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

Three Things to Count On While Replacing Your Smart Truck Wheels

How often do you replace your truck’s wheel? When this question was asked to a number of truckers, we had two different answers. The first type of answer was, “I change it when they shrink or when flat spots are huge. The second type but infrequent answer was, “I restore them in every 2-4 months”. Right answer! It is advised and found to be effective when you put back your truck’s wheel every 2-4 months.

Most of you are likely to change your truck wheels only when you can’t get those axle nuts back on the setup. Not ever! As a motorist, replacing your truck wheels is going to be a continuous process from time to time. Sometimes you will realize that the new wheels just don’t fit in or they may trouble you while driving. It is said that, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. Let’s look up for three flaw-avoidance measures while swapping your vehicle’s wheel, which really helps in maintaining your trucks well.
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Hard working Trucker – “A Perfect Growth Strategy of Nation”.

Jan-12’2013 is Work Harder Day. Apart from trucker’s new resolutions for the year 2013, what is something you would like to work harder at and why on that day? Being a trucker you have got plenty of deals to contribute in bulk to nation’s economic prosperity. We often excuse our self an infinite times to work a single task scheduled days back. These excuses include, “Let me do it later, evening, tonight, tomorrow or weekend”, “I’m tired today”, “My alarm did not go off” and lots more. Continue reading

The Festival of Sleep Day Is Here

In this competitive world and wintry weather, is there anyone who hates hiding under a blanket and sleeping for a whole day? Certainly not! Hibernate! A Rabbit does… Bear does… Bat does… Why not you?  Apart from gearing your trucks apt for winter, self-gearing is also vital. The festival of sleep day is an unofficial, but favorite holiday for nearly everyone. It is usually celebrated on Jan 3rd of every year. We asked a good number people, what their holiday plan is. The answer counts cleaning house or car shed, washing car, repairing and some odd jobs. How nice it would be to hug your teddy or stuffed bunny and to sprawl out on a day bed or couch after your Christmas shopping or celebration? No fences why you sleep, where you sleep, how and how long you sleep. No matter what! Just get any comfortable cushion to sleep on. Continue reading

“The Little Children! Are they with angels?”

In the wake of sad and sickening Connecticut School shooting incident at Newtown on Friday, we at Taxexcise.com, feel sorry to those dead innocent children with pure hearts and noble teachers who fought for their pupils till eternity. The sinful and illogical massacre by the 20-year-old gunman Adam Lanza, left 28 people dead, counts 20 immaculate children from Sandy Hook Elementary School. He had shot those children who were in the age group of 6-7 for a multiple number of times. As the BBC news reports say, the gunman had killed his own mother before he started firing at school and finally committed suicide. It is said that, hundred rounds of fire shots came from the school. Continue reading