3PL Summit: Truckstop’s state of the spot market | WHAT THE TRUCK?!?

Key Takeaways:

  • Discussion of the spot market's recovery from the freight recession, including the impact of political uncertainty.
  • Exploration of AI's integration into Truckstop's platform and its potential to address customer service and brokerage gaps, as well as freight fraud.
  • Emphasis on driver health and its importance for supply chain efficiency.
  • Coverage of freight theft, a trucker with goats, and a humorous mention of Trump's AI-generated plan for Gaza.

On episode 807 of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is coming to you live from FreightWaves’ 3PL Summit. He’s talking to Truckstop’s Sean Dehan about the state of the spot market. Did the freight recession recovery see its shadow? Is political uncertainty destabilizing or helping rates? We’ll also look at how Truckstop is integrating AI into their platform.

CloneOps’ David Bell is fully on board with always-on AI agents. Can they fill the customer service and brokerage gaps where reps may be lacking? What happens when an AI agent calls another AI agent? And can tech solve the growing fraud problem in freight?

It’s about to be hot trucker summer so time to get in shape, drivers. 160 Driving Academy’s Steve Gold talks about the importance of driver health to a functioning supply chain. 

Plus, freight theft strikes again; truckers with goats as pets; and Trump reveals AI generated plan for Gaza.

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Timothy Dooner

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.