Using The Truckers Helper

• Backing Up to a CD - This article deals with making a backing up your data to a CDR or CDRW disk. Unless you do not have a floppy disk drive backing up to a CD is generally overkill. It's kind of like using a 53 foot trailer to haul a pea. Use a floppy disk if you can, it's the easiest way to do backups.
  
  
• Employee Loans
  This article deals with making a Loan to an employee and then taking deductions for that loan in payroll. This is a special case issue where you have made a real loan, not just a driver advance. For example you sell a truck to an employee and he has agreed to pay for it with a fixed weekly deduction from his pay.
  
  
• Purchasing a Truck
  This is the first in a series of articles on accounting and The Truckers Helper. We are going to answer our most common accounting questions in these articles. Our first issue is purchasing a truck and how to enter the purchase, loan and ongoing payments in the accounting section.
  
  

Trucking

• Computing For Profits Ever wonder why a computer is a better tool than pencil and paper for tracking your trucking business? This article, originally published in 1997, will give you some insight into this issue.
  
  

• Installing an Inverter and Microwave
  Detailed instructions for how to install an inverter and a microwave oven in your vehicle. It can save you a lot of time and money, but you need to know what you're doing.
  
  

Log Master™

• KELLER & TRUCKERS HELPER SETTLE SUIT OVER USE OF LOG CHECKER®
  The Truckers Helper and JJ Keller wish to announce that they have settled the lawsuit of J.J. Keller's registered trademark, LOG CHECKER®.