Posts Tagged ‘Robert Scheper’

Traveling coast to coast can produce a problem for understanding income taxes in Canada. Many drivers have friends and acquaintances that live and work sometimes thousands of miles away. When the topic of income taxes comes up there can be significant differences in perception and therefore results. Canada is a big country, over three thousand…

Trying to get a balanced opinion of President Trump in a world of extreme media bias and nearly infinite internet partiality is like wading through a septic tank looking for an edible apple. Personally, I shy away from the mainstream media as a viable source of facts. My opinions of internet sites that shout strong…

I was giving a speech a while ago and had a short question and answer time at the end. I was asked a fairly standard question about success and what is the biggest leverage to achieving it. I have many books on the subject and there are more books written about the subject than all…

Trump won on the campaign “Make America Great Again”. The slogan then morphed into “…safe again.” “…strong again.” “one again.” and even “…rich again.”. This “America first” ideology is more of a revolutionary statement than a political campaign slogan. It sucker punches globalization; a collective ideology that has been entrenching itself for decades. The United…

Juliet argued that it didn’t matter if Romeo was from the house of Montague. Using the line “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” she contrasted the good of Romeo and “the bad” of Montague, exposing names as mere words to truth. Abraham Lincoln once asked a friend “…if you call a…

(Success and Failure of Operators continued from September) As an accountant I have many meetings and conferences with drivers, operators and business owners, both in and out of the trucking industry. It seems everyone has at least some interest in gaining lasting wealth. There are many books, speakers and celebrities offering countless methods for wealth…

I’ve been an Accountant and Consultant to independent Operators since 1492 (a joint venture with Christopher Columbus). During that time I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and working with many, very successful operators. There are some sharp operators that just before a meeting I have to pull up my socks and focus on my ‘A’…

Our industry has produced many reports that focus on the cost of turnover for carriers because without a doubt, turnover is expensive to everyone. However, the cost to an operator can be much more devastating. As an accountant for hundreds of independent operators I see the cost directly and indirectly every month and every season.…