Do you actually go through your settlement line by line weekly?

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by C.bailey, Aug 17, 2026.

  1. C.bailey

    C.bailey Bobtail Member

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    When your settlement hits, do you read every line of it, or do you check the net and move on?

    Asking because I keep seeing guys mention catching stuff months later. Tolls that were not theirs, a fee that showed up one week and never went away, escort or lumper charges for a load they never ran. Seems like the only way anyone catches it is reading every line every week, which is a lot to keep up with after a full day.

    So two things I am curious about:

    1. Do you have a system for it, or is it eyeballs and memory?
    2. Has anybody here ever paid somebody to go through them, a bookkeeper or a service? Or is that not really a thing people do?

    Just trying to understand how much of this is a real headache versus something everybody just handles.
     
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  3. Lonesome

    Lonesome Mr. Sarcasm

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    Why wouldn't you? Unless you don't care about getting paid for everything.
     
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  4. Big Road Skateboard

    Big Road Skateboard Road Train Member

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    I'm just so happy to be truckin, I don’t worry about it.
     
  5. BoostedTeg

    BoostedTeg Road Train Member

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    You mean that there are people out here actually doing it for the money. Lol
     
  6. EastCoastResident

    EastCoastResident Road Train Member

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    Regardless of one’s job is, he or she should carefully check his or her pay stub.
     
  7. Big Road Skateboard

    Big Road Skateboard Road Train Member

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    Prime would never do me wrong on my lease purchase. I thought I had a problem once, and I asked them to make sure I didn't, and they agreed I didn't.

    It's just money anyway. You can hold your hands in the shape of a cup, but you're still gonna spill a bit.

    That's why we drivin big trucks, not workin MacDonalds. Every penny doesn't count.

    You know what I'm sayin
     
  8. Star Rider

    Star Rider Road Train Member

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    My Chicago 1099 L/P settlements don't have lines at all.....
     
  9. Big Road Skateboard

    Big Road Skateboard Road Train Member

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    Neither do my log sheets. My mirror though....
     
  10. wore out

    wore out Numbered Classic

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    Wait you guys can read??
     
  11. 86scotty

    86scotty Road Train Member

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    Seems to me like the OP thinks the job is just driving the truck. The job is making money!
    Driving the truck is just one part of it.

    You might want to drive the truck less and work on the things that make you money more.
     
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