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The marketplace for truckload transportation is fragmented and opaque. Relationships between shippers and carriers are tenuous at best, forged and broken by wild swings in capacity availability and rates per mile. In this white paper, Transfix and FreightWaves define the problems distorting the marketplace for truckload transportation, discuss how carriers think about their assets, explain the role of technology in reducing empty miles, and sketch out the economic dynamics that come into play when the marketplace is optimized to free up capacity at the right price.

Kick your week off with What the Truck?!? as we talk IMO 2020, Uber Freight’s big fleet plans and California buses going electric, then play some trucker slang Market Expert Trivia and talk trucker drug testing with Grady Philips of Corporate Medical Services. Plus so much more. Rewatch the LIVE show here

San Francisco, traditionally a backhaul market, is seeing some emerging trends that are promising for carriers. Outbound tender rejections in Southern California are under 1 percent, making it a hot area for brokers. And, as peak season continues, we take a look at the trans-Pacific Eastbound Corridor. Carrier Update is presented by AT&T Business.

The UN Conference of Trade and Development released a study that reveals who’s at the top of the commercial maritime world—ranked based on connectivity to other ports.

FreightWaves Market Expert Zach Strickland talks with Kevin Hill about a gloomy broker’s market and also speaks with economist Ibrahiim Bayaan about the state of shipping. Zach Cunningham gives you the traffic update and Nick Austin sends you into the weekend with an update on weather.

College football: poetry in motion, masses of men, giants of the gridiron rushing 40 yards in 4.4 seconds. But before that equipment arrives at the field, it’s moved by big rigs rolling on big iron. These are the games we play, and this is how we get to play them. On today’s Freight All Kinds, […]

On this episode we’re covering all the latest headlines, talking HOS changes and digital brokers’ road to profit, playing earnings over/under, hearing about huge hail, seeing what’s on the radar, and listening to our readers in Comment Section Rodeo. You won’t want to miss it. Or, rewatch the LIVE show here.

FreightWaves Market Expert Zach Strickland talks to Donny Gilbert in today’s Carrier Update presented by AT&T Business, Kyle Cunningham gives us updates on the brokerage market, and Nick Austin runs us through the weather for today’s weather update.

This week we step inside the world of BlueGrace Logistics CCO/EVP Adam Blankenship. We’re talking about how 3PLs can keep pace in an Amazonified e-com-driven world. We touch on digital brokerages and then wrap it up with a discussion on TMS and the value of clean data. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and […]

FreightWaves Anchor Emily Szink talks to Kevin Hill about broker satisfaction as well as Seth Holm about Shopify’s latest development in the shipping industry. Carrier Update presented by AT&T Business breaks down reefer tender rejections in Bismarck and Fargo, and Nick Austin returns to give us a weather update.

Amazon nears U.S. release for Prime Air drone deliveries.

On today’s episode, we’re talking about the Hong Kong protests with FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller, NY/NJ moving containers by electric truck, supply chain sustainability and Impossible Whoppers. We’re saying ALOHA in SONAR, thinking Big Deal Little Deal and so much more. Watch it HERE Subscribe now on your favorite podcast player of choice and watch […]

Kyle Cunningham breaks down the broker markets, Zach Strickland gives the Carrier Update presented by AT&T Business, and Market Expert Henry Byers gives a market update for Shippers.