Hyliion brings Christmas to NYC, Tesla Semi goes 500, unrest in iPhone City – WTT

On today’s episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner On today’s episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is bringing you back from the holiday weekend and into Cyber Monday with news about Tesla Semi’s 500-mile full loaded drive, Hyliion bringing Christmas to NYC and unrest in iPhone City and across China. We’ll find out what Rooster makes of all this.

Bleak or peak? Freight has been way down this year but will record Black Friday sales help save peak season? We’ll talk about it with Grant Goodale, founder and CXO at Convoy; George Abernathy, president at Emerge; and Graham Gonzales, vice president of strategic accounts at Reliance Partners.

Plus, SuperTrucker on trolling trucking Twitter; strange trucking photo genres; what to do with holiday candy rejects; extreme World Cup celebrations; Michigan football’s big rig and will giant hats be the next big thing?

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Dooner is an award-winning podcaster who hosts and produces FreightWaves' WHAT THE TRUCK?!? In under a year he helped build FreightCasts, the world’s largest logistics and supply chain podcast network in media. WTT is ranked in Apple Podcasts top-20 Business News podcasts. He also writes a newsletter of the same title with over 15k subscribers in the supply chain and trucking niche. Dooner has been in freight since 2005 and has held directors positions in operations, sales, consulting, and marketing. He has worked with FedEx, Reebok, Adidas, L.L. Bean, Hasbro, Louis Vuitton, and many more high level clients across the full spectrum of the supply chain. He was a featured speaker at TEDx Chattanooga.