#Operating costs

[joshhamilton11]

Leveraging Fuel Tax Credits To Reduce Operating Costs

Fuel is one of the most significant expenses in the trucking industry. Owner-operators and small trucking businesses can alleviate some of this financial burden by leveraging fuel tax credits. These credits not only reduce taxable income but also help lower operating costs, enhancing profitability. Here’s how you can take advantage of these credits effectively.

Understanding Fuel Tax Credits

Fuel tax credits are incentives provided by federal and state governments to offset fuel taxes paid during specific operations. For the trucking industry, this often applies to off-road or tax-exempt uses, such as operating refrigeration units or auxiliary equipment. Identifying where and how fuel was used is the first step to claiming these credits.

Track and Document Fuel Usage

Accurate record-keeping is essential when claiming fuel tax credits. Keep detailed logs of mileage, fuel purchases, and equipment usage. Many truckers use electronic logging devices (ELDs) or fuel-tracking software to simplify this process. By tracking your fuel usage meticulously, you’ll ensure compliance and maximize the credits you’re entitled to.

Understand State and Federal Regulations

Each state has different rules and rates for fuel tax credits. Researching or consulting with experts on these variations is crucial. For example, while federal credits may cover certain off-road uses, state-level programs might include additional exemptions. Experts offering trucking small business advisory services can help navigate these complexities, ensuring you claim all available credits without errors.

Identify Eligible Fuel Usage Categories

Fuel tax credits are typically available for:

Off-Road Equipment Use – Fuel used in auxiliary power units (APUs), refrigeration units, or other non-transportation equipment.

Non-Taxable Routes – Operating in areas exempt from certain fuel taxes, such as on private roads or agricultural sites.

Exported Fuel – Fuel purchased in one state but consumed in another may qualify for reimbursement or credit under specific programs.

By identifying eligible categories, you can optimize your claims and reduce your tax liability significantly.

Automate Fuel Tax Calculations

Manual calculations can lead to errors and missed opportunities. Many trucking software solutions integrate fuel tax management features, automatically calculating credits based on your operations. These tools simplify the process and ensure accuracy, allowing you to focus on your business.

Work with Experts

Navigating the rules surrounding fuel tax credits can be challenging, especially for small trucking businesses. Partnering with professionals who specialize in trucking taxation ensures you’re not leaving money on the table. A trucking small business advisory team can analyze your operations, identify credit opportunities, and help file accurate claims.

Plan Strategically for Savings

Fuel tax credits can do more than reduce your tax liability—they can improve your overall cash flow. By incorporating these credits into your financial strategy, you can allocate savings toward other operating costs, such as maintenance or equipment upgrades, further reducing long-term expenses.

Conclusion

Leveraging fuel tax credits is a smart way for truckers to reduce operating costs and improve profitability. With careful tracking, strategic planning, and the right professional guidance, you can maximize these benefits. By working with a trucking small business advisory service, you ensure compliance and unlock potential savings that can make a significant difference in your bottom line.

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A charitable trust, the Global Crop Diversity Trust, meets most of the operating costs through an endowment fund.

"Human Universe" - Professor Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen

[doriandrifting]

Ted Wheeler sees the Byers and says, “Thank god you folks are back. Between the two of these kids, I thought I was going to have to take out a second mortgage just to afford my phone bill,” and has absolutely no idea the chaos he has just unleashed.

[whetstonefires]

You know I'm realizing one reason you keep seeing mdzs modern AUs where the Jiang parents are alive mainly so they can dramatically fail and betray Wei Wuxian by cutting him off financially--defaulting on his college tuition or formally disowning him etc--isn't just that people want to translate the Burial Mounds II arc into modern terms while keeping Jiang Cheng clean of it.

(Despite the fact that the internal logic of Jiang Cheng's character is largely built around him being a person who would abandon someone he intensely cared about under these specific circumstances.)

It's because it's hard to set up a modern analogue for the way that Jiang Cheng is responsible for Wei Wuxian, as his Sect Leader.

We live in a highly individualistic society. People are trying to write Wei Wuxian Tragically Wronged, and because there's a normative expectation that people in the position of parents will provide you with resources, and certainly won't withdraw them without warning, but no such assumption that people in the position of siblings necessarily owe each other support, making this work in modern setting with Jiang Cheng in his canon role would require a lot of extra work, just to get a less readily resonant result.

But I keep thinking about it. Because something that's getting lost here is, not just the nuances of character and relationship, but like...it's sort of key to the story that cutting Wei Wuxian off was, in fact, Completely Socially Appropriate.

The level on which it was a betrayal is subtle, and deeply cutting. And intensely tied up in the very different opinions each of Jiang Cheng's parents had about what obligations existed in their family wrt Wei Wuxian, and what these meant.

The level on which it was the obvious, normal course of action is blatant. That is to a huge extent why it happens: because Jiang Cheng's instinct to conform is a survival instinct, reinforced by trauma, and Wei Wuxian's choices meant he had no coherently compelling reason not to obey it, and enormous peer pressure to do so.

The fact is that Jiang Cheng was making a reasonable choice, the actual thing 'anyone would do in that situation,' unlike Wei Wuxian and Jin Guangyao's respective wildly warped ideas about what that is.

Wei Wuxian wasn't betrayed by Jiang Sect like your foster parents cutting you off because you're disobedient. Wei Wuxian was betrayed by Jiang Sect like your brother refusing to drop fifty grand to bail you out of jail.

Of course Wei Wuxian tells him not to. And of course the fact that Jiang Cheng already chose in the moment not to pay a cent because Fuck You Wei Ying still stands there glaring, a precedent that can never be taken back.

And then later he's betrayed by Jiang Cheng like your brother cooperating with a police investigation into a manslaughter you really did commit, that's being handled like domestic terrorism. And then like your brother calling the cops on you. And then like your brother helping the cops find where you're hiding.

I'm personally fascinated by the way Jiang Cheng's lifelong resentment for the way Jiang Fengmian reliably bailed Wei Wuxian out of everything informed those decisions to do the normal thing, the way he's reacting against his dead father as well as against Wei Wuxian and the actual situation.

But even without that daddy issues angle, the fact that the person who made that choice was Jiang Cheng, and that it was simultaneously the reasonable appropriate normal upstanding citizen rational thing to do and so shitty Wei Wuxian would be entitled never to forgive it is sort of. The Point.

Of the scenario, and also to a considerable degree of the entire finely tuned narrative construct that is Jiang Cheng.

[kaiserouo]

why are you so expensive

[queerliblib]

QLL in the media again! Love what we’re doing?! Help us keep doing it 🌈 📚

[noxribles]

a little cruise adventure hc <3 (left to right)

from this little panel

[rust-bearer]

The prisoner screamed in their cell, as First Aid watched through the window. Their servo, previously their pride of trade, had been cut off right where the nerve endings started; it looked fairly painful, and judging by the screaming, it was.

First Aid made a note of it, typing on his keypad.

“Hey doc. Fancy seeing you here,” Vortex purred from First Aid’s left, standing obtrusively in the doorway. First Aid spared him a glance, then return to the prisoner.

“Standard response of sudden amputation. Patient underwent a below-the-wrist amputation following extensive ischemic damage and necrosis of the servo due to unintended infection…” First Aid looked up again at the ‘prisoner’, before returning to his notes, continuing to speak aloud as he typed. “Preoperative imaging revealed critical tissue loss, with no viable circulation distal to the wrist. Procedure was uncomplicated and patient is expected to make a full recovery.”

Vortex made an interested noise, deciding to lean into First Aid’s personal space. “Sounds like you had some fun without me.”

First Aid set the tablet down with a small noise of dissatisfaction. Then, he spoke into a microphone, directed to the diminutive medical drones, currently puttering around the operating room. “Physician consent obtained for patient termination.”

As one, the drones all jolted to life. The prisoner strapped to the operating table barely had time to scream before the drones began to gouge him apart. First Aid shook his head, and made yet another mental note to recalibrate the drones. Always so messy. Never enough time to fix it, though. Especially not with…

Well, Vortex. Vortex, who was currently staring in disbelief. “Yknow, I was joking when I said you should lighten up. Isn’t this a little extreme? I mean, Primus, Aid, aren’t you supposed to be a medic-”

“What is it you want, Vortex?” First Aid sighed. He shouldn’t be even indulging this. “I wouldn’t have to kill so many patients if you left me alone.”

“Me? What did I do!” Vortex looks wounded, and maybe it’s an act. “You’re the one who chopped off his wrist, then, well… the rest of him too. Say, doesn’t he look a lot like your old coworker?” Vortex flashes a deep grin, unobstructed by any mask.

First Aid ignores him. Looks back to his notes. “Attending physician visual disturbance noted. Accompanied by auditory disturbances as well. Patient log closed for the day.”

“Hallucination?” Vortex makes to snatch away the data pad, but his clawed servo goes through it. “Wh- hey! First Aid, what did you-”

“You’re DEAD, Vortex!” First Aid finally snaps. “We have this conversation every other day! You’re- not real, and I shouldn’t even be talking to you…” Inhale, exhale. “I’ve been awake too long. This always happens, and I keep telling myself not to let it happen, and it always happens…”

Muttering to himself, First Aid stands up and leaves the room. Vortex, or what thinks it’s Vortex, stands over the data pad. Watches the text scroll automatically until it reaches today’s date.

Fifty thousand years after the end of the War. After Vortex’s last, hazy memory of… something, and then nothing at all. The room dims; the room goes black.

Nothing but a pair of red optics, staring out of the dark.

[frameconfessions]

I hope the protoframes remain relevant even after this story arc for the Drifter concludes, but I also recognize how complicated things would get with how many characters they could keep trying to make stay relevant, leading to a Konoha 13 Naruto type situation where we have too many relevant characters from Umbra & Ordis all the way to Kaya Velasco.

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[ace-and-ranty]

This inspired by watching a series about people getting uploaded to computers... y'know, the usual talks of "We are Gods now, free of material bodies!!"

And the series TALKS about servers. It incorporates servers at all time. The fact they need massive, resource-heavy big-ass computers to run is mentioned SEVERAL TIMES. But no one ever brings up the fact that, if you need massive servers for every single uploaded person, PRETTY SOON you are gonna balloon past what Earth can sustain.

Our planet can handle many more people than we currently have if we could be assed to distribute resources evenly. But how many super-powered mega servers can it handle? How long before the energy and raw materials and maintenance needed are unsustainable? Also....... hey, genius? If you transcended the material plane so damn hard, who is upkeeping your goddamn electric cables?.

[anghraine]

"Let people enjoy things" vs "let people criticize things" is incredibly tedious for a lot of reasons, but one of them is that these things are not actually contradictory.

[chimchiri]

Update: Trixie has elbow dysplasia and a small fracture which needs an operation next week. I'm still processing it and what it means for now and the future.

[throesti]

A lot of people are saying that Jake English is incredibly emotionally intelligent but not enough people are actually using it. By "not enough people" I mean everybody should use it always. He's so good at getting what he wants that every time he's refused something the person who dared to do so is wrecked with guilt for 4-5 business days. His actions are always justified and one time Jane reprimanded him he was so visibly upset and guilty she felt horrible for weeks. Everybody is on his side in every argument even if he's not doing anything. He knows things about people that are impossible to know and when Rose confronted him he said he just kinda stumbled upon said things accidentally. It's physically impossible to not do things he wants you to do and not be in place he wants you to be. Only person to match him is Karkat but after the single most explosive movie night they are cautionary allies and don't use their powers on each other. Let Jake weaponize his intelligence to a ridiculous extent.

[metanarrates]

What do you think about how most people summarize orv's themes as love. I saw one of your reblogs about how it's too simplified for other works?

my general opinion is that saying "x is about love" is usually too damn vague as an analysis. while love is not a universal emotion (shoutout to loveless aros,) it's a common enough human experience that I really think that you need to specify what ABOUT love is being explored. is this a work about the depths of love? is it about the transformative potential of love? there are a thousand different ways love can manifest, and about a billion different ways a story can offer insight on the nature of love. I think it doesn't do justice to a story if you're not specifying what exactly it has to say about love.

all that out of the way, yes. many of orv's major themes are about love. specifically, it relates the love a reader has for a story to the love that a person can have for another human being. a story, like a person, can contain depths unknown to both author and reader - it is impossible to ever reach a complete understanding. there is always some element that will be impossible to communicate. something left hidden behind a wall.

but you can love that story, that person, anyway. you can offer your own interpretations, and try to understand as best you can. and the love and effort you put in matters deeply. the way that you can affect other human beings, specifically, matters deeply. even if it seems like your efforts will never reach that person, even if they are justifiably hurt by your efforts, even if your interpretations are wrong, even if you are the sole reader of a story. it matters that you were there and tried to love it as best you could.

orv also has a lot to say about love, self-sacrifice, and salvation. kim dokja's love of the story and his companions is a major motivator to why he destroys himself over and over. it's paralleled to his own mother, who sacrificed herself for his sake, and who he resented all his life and yet can't stop making the same choice when it comes to the safety of others. that sort of love and salvation hurts as much as it saves. it's as selfish as it is selfless. it's the same choice his companions make in order to get him back. they love him. they would be able to live with his resentment and guilt if it meant he would survive.

kim dokja's love for yoo joonghyuk, specifically, is both selfish and selfless. it is his love for yoo joonghyuk that was (unintentionally) responsible for much of yoo joonghyuk's suffering. the choices kim dokja makes out of love are what mitigate yoo joonghyuk's suffering, and eventually are what allows him to free himself from his eternal cycle. again, it is the love a reader has for a story, and the way that a reader both craves conflict and craves for the characters they love to overcome it.

it is the same love that drives yoo joonghyuk and han sooyoung to repeat the cycle again, as a choice this time. selfishly and selflessly. han sooyoung damns the world to apocalypse because she wished to save kim dokja's life. yoo joonghyuk chooses both regressions and his time in space to grasp at the chance to keep kim dokja alive. neither of their choices is guaranteed to save him. they know that. love alone isn't enough to save someone. but they make this choice because they love him, knowing that he would hate the choice. they create the story together because they want their sole reader to be understood by it.

and that's the end theme of orv's meditations on love and the nature of stories. if you love a story enough that it saves you... well, perhaps it's possible that the story, too, loves you back.

none of this is easy to describe in a sentence. I agree that it's probably easier to just say "orv is about love?" but I wish more people identified it further beyond that, since that usually is where the discussion just stops. I find orv's discussions on love to be some of the most compelling presentations on the topic that I've ever seen in fiction, and I like discussing it! i want to treat it with the complexity that it deserves.

[drinkingdeadpeopletea]

becoming a magdalyne and nicholas fleit stan immediately. jesus CHRIST man.