Podcast: What you need to know about taxes as a trucker
How you prepare for taxes should be a year-round effort to manage your business and get the best results. Tax expert Barry Fowler explains. Also, women are taking a bigger role in trucking, and some of them are being honored for the work they do behind the wheel. We’ll talk with one, Christie Tilton.
10:15 – What you need to know about taxes as a trucker
25:08 – Trucker honored for her work in the industry
Links, email addresses, phone numbers and more information
- Learn more about the OOIDA Safe Driving Award Program.
- Learn more about the National Driver All-Star Awards here.
- You can also learn more about the TA-Petro Citizen Driver Award on its website.
- Get information here about the Goodyear Highway Hero Award.
- Women in Trucking has more about the Influential Woman in Trucking Award on its website.
- For more information on taxes, visit the Taxation Solutions website.
- OOIDA’s tour truck, The Spirit of the American Trucker, will be at the Louisiana Truck Shows in Rayne, La., Nov. 1-3. Stop in and join OOIDA for $35.
- It’s now even easier to contact your elected officials and stay up to date on current trucking issues. Visit OOIDA’s Fighting For Truckers website.
- You can donate to the Truckers For Troops fund all year.
- The OOIDA Foundation is accepting applications for the OOIDA Mary Johnston Scholarship. Click here for details and to apply. The deadline is Feb. 1.
- OOIDA is teaming up with Wreaths Across America to help honor U.S. military veterans.
- If someone tries to coerce you into violating the regulations, document the coercive act, then call 888-368-7238 or file a complaint online to the National Consumer Complaint Database.
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What you need to know about taxes as a trucker
Every time OOIDA holds a Truck To Success seminar, the instructors go over all the basic things you need to do in order to run a successful trucking business. These include lease-purchase deals, buying a truck, whether to incorporate, what kind of corporation works best for you and so on. Also discussed are the tax implications of each of those topics, as well as many, many others. Barry Fowler of Fowler Tax and Taxation Solutions in Houston explains what he teaches at the course.
Trucker honored for her work in the industry
Women are taking a bigger role in the trucking industry every single day. As a result, some of those women are being honored for the work they do behind the wheel, and one of those honors is the National Private Truck Council’s National Driver All Stars. Among the 27 truckers honored by the program this year was Christie Tilton of Eaton, Ohio.