#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.

[hsmagazine254]

Choosing The Right Fuel: Diesel vs. Petrol vs. Electric

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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

[futureelectronic1101]

Lattice Avant FPGA Platform Power Efficiency Demo

https://www.futureelectronics.com/npi/lattice-semiconductor-avant-16nm-finfet-fpga-platform. Watch how the Lattice Avant FPGA platform delivers up to 2.5X lower power than similar class competitive devices, helping system and application engineers achieve power efficiency while simplifying thermal management and lowering operating costs. https://youtu.be/OhTvl85bZQk

[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.

[kaiserouo]

why are you so expensive

[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.

[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

[witchofthesouls]

The 'Quintassons selectively breeding' raises other questions, too.

Do the medics and medical facilities operate off of Quintasson standards?

If so, could they unintentionally be causing harm by forcing those standards upon those whose frames keep rejecting them?

Entire swathes of the population would actively prefer illegal mods if that were the case. Non-standard being worth the risk if it means living with reduced pain or malfunctions. Doctors who performed them would obviously get their licensing revoked if caught, but maybe that was the most scandalous, obvious form of protest a medic could do.

How many frames were made extinct just to get a "factory standard" and how many of them were key to the planet's health?

Like, were predacons and similarly large beastformers environmental cornerstones, drawing resources and exposing veins from deep in the crust as they nested? It could've been like it'd be a whale fall situation, where entire ecosystems would've been sustained for generations off what was exposed.

How many mechs felt strangely violated or vindicated seeing how humans used those odd things within/on their alt modes that they always had yet never knew the use for?

Ding ding ding!

Quintessons had a really long time to impose their cultural practices as well as their social structures and mannerisms into Cybertron. They had no qualms messing with the Well of Allsparks to ensure 'standardization' of all that came from it, aka enforcing criteria to either get rid of the frame-types too difficult to control or hampered the population completely.

Quintessa has a very complicated relationship with its own origins. They're a race that's fiercely proud of their technological advances and high intelligence to 'escape the weaknesses of their flesh,' but Quintessons still can not smother their instinctual fears across certain kinds of frames (usually predatory beastformers) invoke. Nor do they wish to become fully automata as they subjugated many mechanical species by leveraging their own organic biology along with lost arcane lost and technology.

Quintessons had a very long history with crushing natives beneath their tentacles and did the same tried and true procedures. They took over all the main pillars of society and brutally put down any uprisings, killed dissentors, destroyed and/or highjacked important cultural sites and spiritual practices, and heavily crusaded against any that didn't uphold the new status quo through insidious means: time.

Medicine is an important field on Quintessa, so there was no way they were going to allow anyone to practice with 'backwards' thoughts and 'outdated' methods. Using legalities that they had full control, they stacked the deck in their complete favor to disseminate misinformation and outright lies to indoctrinate each subsequent generation of new Cybertronians from the Allspark. To them, it became a war of attrition between cultural genocide and scattered retention as Quintessons deliberately targeted the newbuilds to teach and viciously hunted down 'rogue' elements.

They sown so much discord that even when kicked off, they basically got the last laugh as Cybertron had many cultural similarities to Quintessa that the old masters were cackling with glee when they saw Cybertronians continuing to do their own work without their input, including the standardization practices, caste system, and the heavily edited religious doctrine.

On Earth, many got a huge surprise when they realized just how similar the insides of their new disguises were like to their alt-mode on Cybertron. The Autobots had a series of realizations with cupholders, 'glove compartments,' and how easily the humans found the buttons and devices to maneuver the seats to a more comfortable position.

[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.

[heartru]

my least favourite thing from the watcher discourse has been people saying “WE never asked for higher quality” or “your most popular shows are where you just sit around and talk!!” - babes its likely not what THEY want to do for the rest of eternity lol. they’re allowed to want to grow as creatives and make things they are proud of?

[purrincess-chat]

Okay but also the scene of Ladybug destroying everything in the Agreste mansion tied to Hawkmoth?

[alwaysbewoke]

[aimeelouart]

IDK if you guys have felt my absence as much as I have for the past month-ish, but I have enough energy to update you now. TL;DR the townhouse I was renting gave my roommate mold poisoning and sent her to the hospital twice, the property managers refused to acknowledge that our (very expensive) mold report did indeed say the phrase (verbatim) “samples confirmed mold spore contamination,” and therefore we had to follow the law and issue a 7-day notice that if they didn’t remediate all problems we were terminating the lease for untenatability.

Which meant we had to find a new place and move within less than 7 days. That was thankfully accomplished last week. I’m so fucking tired and I don’t even know if we’ll be going to court yet.

[ballpitbee]

My display cabinet of Cog OCs