IFTA tracking

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  1. Dwight Goertzen

    Dwight Goertzen Bobtail Member

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    Hi i am looking for the cheapest easist way to track gallons and miles for ifta. I previously used motive (keep trucking) eld and that tracked that. With my new work i will be log book exempt. I am wondering what the best options are for tracking that stuff without having to write everything down.
     
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  3. Judge

    Judge Road Train Member

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    truckingoffice.
    You put in all your loads and have pc miler.
    it’ll be close.
    should get 30 day free trial.
     
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  4. Concorde

    Concorde Road Train Member

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    GPS for miles.
    My Garmin has proved accurate for recording jurisdiction miles vs my ELD Big Road/ Fleet Complete which is a proven failure every quarter.

    For fuel I get quarterly reports from Fleet One.
     
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  5. dirthaller

    dirthaller Road Train Member

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    My dinosaur Garmin 560 dezl. Just remember to enter gallons and location every fill up. Went through an IFTA audit in 2020……elog data wasn’t able to be used and the auditor allowed me to recover data from my old gps unit….with paper receipts to supply the mileage that I reported. The final result: they owe me for a hundred gallons somehow! Fat fingers I guess.
    Someone here in the forum told me years ago that I needed to keep paper records but I just use my quarterly IFTA report (generated by my home state) for my paper records.
    The lesson I learned: glad I’m back on paper logs so that my mileage records won’t be compromised by stupid elog glitches!
     
  6. Long FLD

    Long FLD Road Train Member

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    So back in the day we had this thing called a notebook and we wrote down our odometer at the state line and we also wrote down how many gallons of fuel we purchased in that state. I’d have to say that’s still the cheapest option if your only concern is price.
     
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  7. Ridgeline

    Ridgeline Road Train Member

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    No way!

    Using paper, that's not environmentally freindly.

    Did you use an electronic pen or something that would help you with writing it down?

    We all heard about this invention - the pencil - but very few truckers have ever seen one in the wild and those who have been to the Museum of Ancient History claim there is one there.
     
  8. Long FLD

    Long FLD Road Train Member

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    The OP said they don’t want to have to write everything down, but being they said they’d be log exempt I thought I’d suggest the $5 idea and see if they’d be interested. I’d think being exempt they’d really only be running in a couple states at most depending on where they are at.
     
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  9. wis bang

    wis bang Road Train Member

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    He wants an APP 4 that!

    He failed Pencil and Paper training...an app that records things for him...My daughter's father in law used to work for IBM, I can ask.......

    Meanwhile pencil/paper works well IF you pay attention to it.

    I'll bet he would really gripe if he had to do the old MANUAL IFTA reports; it is so EZ to do on line.
     
  10. skallagrime

    skallagrime Road Train Member

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    For an app, instead of a notepad, use google sheets, then its already in a spreadsheet, a few autofill calculations and your ifta report would be done in 5 minutes on a computer every month/quarter

    Get real fancy and make a second tab and use it to enter fuel, and you can see what your fuel mileage is without pulling out another calculator


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  11. bad-luck

    bad-luck Road Train Member

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    I did the same thing until I got Trucking Office. I have a friend that just uses his GPS, and still does. But I had a Rand Mcnally that got a blue screen and wouldn't do anything. I contacted Rand Mcnally and was advised that because my GPS was 9 years old they no longer supported it. So if you are using your GPS for ifta miles and it breaks, you will loose all the information.
     
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