Steve Barrett
- Apr- 2022 -26 AprilModern Shipper
Modern Shipper named Best New Product in prestigious Neal Awards
FreightWaves’ final mile-focused Modern Shipper brand was named Best New Product on Tuesday in the 68th Annual Jesse H. Neal Awards.
Read More » - Mar- 2022 -10 MarchModern Shipper
FreightWaves a finalist in 2 categories of prestigious Neal Awards
FreightWaves’ Modern Shipper brand and WHAT THE TRUCK?!? podcast are finalists in the 68th Annual Jesse H. Neal Awards’ Best New Product and Best Podcast categories.
Read More » - Feb- 2022 -11 FebruaryAmerican Shipper
The Light Load: Supply chain gets personal — gravy shortage edition
They can take my gravy when they pry it from my cold, greasy skillet.
Read More » - Jan- 2022 -14 JanuaryNews
The Light Load: Raven-on-drone violence nothing to crow about
Australian officials’ resolution of recent raven-on-drone attacks isn’t much to crow about.
Read More » - Nov- 2021 -19 NovemberNews
The Light Load: Mr. Durr goes to Trenton
He had a dream, 153 bucks and a decent supply of doughnuts. Mild-mannered furniture truck driver Edward Durr may not leap the New Jersey State House in a single bound,…
Read More » - Oct- 2021 -1 OctoberNews
The Light Load: With ‘wake-up calls’ like this, who needs Ambien?
Shot in the dark, but a $5,000 timeout for $230,000 in pay withheld from workers making as little as $3.38 an hour could prove a suboptimal deterrent.
Read More » - Aug- 2021 -7 AugustNews
The Light Load: Whistling past the autonomous truck yard
Not to be a Luddite, but a world of trucker-free trucks is going to mean some minor trade-offs, including fleeting bouts of creepiness.
Read More » - Jun- 2021 -25 JuneNews
The Light Load: Marla meets the watermelon truck
I was there when Marla Maples became homecoming queen. Regrettably, I was also there when a truckload of watermelons attacked her in a four-Rolaids film by “the master of horror.”
Read More » - 11 JuneNews
The Light Load: Confessions of a transportation tenderfoot
Tankers painted with coffee mugs do not haul coffee, and other alarming discoveries.
Read More » - 9 JuneNews
FreightWaves takes top honor in prestigious Neal Awards
FreightWaves and its American Shipper brand won Best Media Brand (Overall Editorial Excellence) in the 67th annual Jesse H. Neal Awards, considered the Pulitzer Prize of business-to-business journalism.
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