American truckers, autonomous yards and AI excuse generators – WTT

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Key Takeaways:

  • An interview with tanker truck driver Taylor Barker about his experiences, including work in East Palestine, Ohio, his perspective on the tanker market and in-cab surveillance, and his music.
  • Discussion with StreetDrone's co-founder about their automated yard logistics solutions.
  • Features Reed Loustalot and his company LOST FR8, which aims to improve freight visibility and address late deliveries.
  • Includes additional segments on cooking in the cab, horn pumps for kids, and a day in the life of a driver.
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On today’s episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is talking to American tanker trucking badass Taylor Barker about life on the road and his music. He talks about trucking wastewater out of East Palestine, Ohio, his view of the tanker market, in-cab surveillance, ghosts and we’ll hear his song “What I Wouldn’t Give.”

StreetDrone is on a mission to automate yard logistics. We’ll talk to StreetDrone’s co-founder Mark Preston about how they intend to revolutionize the industry.

Lose your freight, you’re going to need an excuse. Reed Loustalot is here to share how he’s bringing visibility to capacity and excuses to late drivers through his company LOST FR8.

Plus, cooking in the cab; horn pumps for kids; a day in the life of a driver; and more. 

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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.