little info about dealing with brokers would be greatly appreciated

You ain't right Double Yellow, I can't stop laughing, that's funny.

 

Thanks Double Yellow, but I don't understand why you would also post that picture?

 

IF you set yourself up with Landstar as an independent carrier, you can use Transflo to send documents and they pay within 48 hours.
For a printer I use a brother pocket jet 6. The same printer DOT use in their vehicles. It uses thermal paper not ink. You do need to buy special paper to use. New one was $300.00 I bought 2 used ones from local PD for $75.00 each. I have my 5 year old printer/scanner that I use to put paperwork into digital.
I use email as much as possible. Most brokers will email or fax. I have only send or received 3 pages in the last year. I have a free fax to email program. AS long as I don't go over 10 pages a month.
This year I switched back to Quicken Home and Business for my accounting. Its simple and easy once you get the files named to your liking.

 

The information i read so far was very helpful! I have a few question that were left unanswered even after i read all the information on this post.
1) What is the best software and program to use for writting up truck invoices?
2) How can you sign documents from a smartphone, i have a
Samsung Note 4?

 

You can hand write an invoice, use a word processor template, etc. I use the built-in invoicing of Quicken home & business

If the document is 1 or 2 pages, hold the phone upright and zoom out until the entire document fits on the screen.

Pull out the stylus and select "screen write." You'll hear a shutter sound as the phone takes a screen shot and converts the document into an image.

You can then zoom in to the areas you need to sign. When done, tap the checkmark to save, and you can then email as an attachment. That's how it is on my note 3 -- should be close if not the same for your note 4...



For longer documents like carrier packets, use a laptop with a pdf reader like adobe acrobat. You can click the "fill and sign" tab and navigate from there..

 

Don't have the equipment setup into my Truck As of yet , is there any way to do it from my phone which i have a Samsung note 4. As far as getting it sent to my email @ and filling out the care package and i have the documents along with insurance and authority scan and email..

 

If you have no employees, I recommend Quicken Home & Business. Takes some (a lot of) work to learn the program, but it is pretty powerful and it'll do invoices & receiveable reports like overdue etc.

I would stongly recommend getting a cheap laptop from Walmart for doing the more complicated paperwork -- it'll save you time, & therefore money, in tbe long run.

But yes, you could take a screenshot of each individual page, screen-write your initials or signature, and then save them as page 1, page 2, page 3, etc. It would take forever on a 30 page document, but it is possible.

I believe quickbooks has a mobile app that will do invoicing. I know quicken home and business' app does not allow invoicing -- you have to do it from a desktop.

As for the BOL, just take a picture of it and crop it to size. Everyone but Landstar seems to accept it...

That's good, though most brokers will want a named certificate of insurance from your insurance company anyway.