Another word to the wise...

I claim single with no dependants(although married with a child), so as to get more money back at the end of year. It's like a savings account for me. I have always survived on getting paid this way, and still can, so it is all good. Then get a nice return.

They seriously take a chunk out of my check for taxes

 

Very...nice work. I almost thought I got it.

 

a few months ago i got a message over qualcomm, about doing this, downloading my elogs and not waiting until tax time (for those here at may, not sure if it was just my terminal or if it was to all drivers) so, I saved my first 6 months or so onto my computer, and in a few weeks ill go back on to the site, and do it again. with tax season coming up i was gonna see if any of the drivers, or staff at our denver yard knew of any trucking savy accountant. im definitely going to pay more for someone who knows what they're doing than go the cheap route, it was the same thing i did when i became a recruiter in the military, found myself a prior service accountant who knew what deductions I could get

 

Remember .. You can only go back 6 months on yer e-logs online (per May Trucking).

 

I was told by the payroll dept. that if I choose to do the per diem, they charge you .025 a mile to print up your logs in case of an audit. When informed of that, I withdrew from that program and print up my logs every time I come home and put them into a three ring binder. It takes no more than 10-15 minutes to do it and I save myself the .025 in the meantime. I always save any receipt that I get when I'm gone.

 

If you use a debit or credit card for all purchases while on the road, it can be a backuip to prove you were out of town and where you were on that date.

 

As well as yer logs and BOLs .. That's why I keep every trip that I transflo