Garmin Dezl 770 and IFTA

It would be nice if Garmin had a more polished system for making and printing trip reports!!

 

YOIKS but I agree that a paper backup is mandatory one thing for sure when not if the gamin dies you are in IT. Also need to keep an eye on ANY GPS cause they don't know where they are at times and then they fake IT.
kittypower

 

Aren't your logs sufficient enough for providing most of the information needed on a daily trip report?

As far as I have been able to tell, I document the information needed on a daily trip report right on my daily logs. In addition, it's pretty easy to make a note on your daily log that reads, "Traveled I-5 S. to 210 E to 57 S to 10 E."

Of course, you must keep records of your fuel receipts that match when you flag a fuel stop, as well as your BOL's.

However, the only other thing I do is keep a simple monthly spreadsheet that I created which shows the beginning monthly miles and a date, entrance odometer mileage into and out of a particular State.

Each State I travel in is summarized for the month under it's own heading. That same spreadsheet has a section I created for my fuel stops showing Date, State, City, Mileage, Gallons, Price & Total.

I hope I'm not missing anything . So far I've filed 6 IFTA quarterlies and haven't had any issues.

 

Well, that was my point. Since I'm logging my activities as I go, the majority of the required trip information is already there on the log.

Entering the supplemental information, i.e., entering and exited mileage in each State, fuel purchase info etc on my spreadsheet, takes me all of an extra minute or two at the end of each day.

As far as fuel receipts go, I snap a photo of the receipt, give it a file name based on date, save it as a pdf file and drop it into a monthly folder on my G Drive. Takes me all of 1 minute to do it, after which I toss the paper receipt.

I hate paper clutter

 

Actually, my smartphone is my computer. A couple of clicks on the homescreen and it goes right to my gmail account where every record of my business is stored and filed on the cloud, it's a beautiful thang.

All these trucker related software programs are sort of obsolete now too be honest with you. At least for a one man dog & pony show like me.

The only thing I don't do on the cloud is my QuickBooks. I hate their internet based platform. I just update my books once a week when I'm home, it's no big deal. Since I save & file electronically every receipt as I go during the week, it's a cinch to update the books.

My home State provides an online IFTA filing portal that is so easy to use for filing and paying, it's great. It only takes like 5 minutes to file and pay online per quarter. That's if the monthly totals are kept up to date.

 

I can do this with Libre Office.
After adjust the text in the screen i send it to print in a .pdf file.
This pdf file can be viewed or printed.

 

You can open as an excel file and hide all unneeded columns to make a printable record.

I had on-site fueling and had to remove non-ifta fuel before hiding the columns to have a record of fuel per ifta unit from their monthly downloadable file.

Our ELD simplified the miles by state and I built a multi-page spreadsheet of IFTA and NY HUT totals to plug into the on-line systems each quarter.

I had all the backup saved in my desktop for around 12 years and a few days after I retired the IT guy flushed it all!