Arkansas passes new bill fining truckers who can’t speak English … is it enough? | WHAT THE TRUCK?!?

On Episode 826 of WHAT THE TRUCK?!?, Dooner is joined by OOIDA’s Lewie Pugh to talk about a new bill in Arkansas fining truckers who cannot speak English sufficiently. Will it be enough to keep our roads safe or should noncompliant drivers be put out of service? 

The trade war is a constantly evolving situation causing some industries to freeze in their tracks. Vinturas’ Alexander Style stops by to talk about how tariffs are impacting his clients in the OEM, automotive and trucking space. Shippers are getting tempted by foreign forwarders to commit classification and country-of-origin fraud; what do we need to look out for?

In headlines, tender volumes drop 9% year over year; intermodal benefits from freight pull forward; Trump exempts smartphones and computers from tariffs; 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.