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On today’s episode, Dooner and Chad will talk to C.H. Robinson President and CEO Bob Biesterfeld about the company’s new idea incubator, Robinson Labs. We’ll find out why one trucker thinks Amazon is working him like a “rented mule.” A new reason for Celadon’s bankruptcy is exposed. Walmart tells courts they’re being too literal.
DOES THE DRUG & ALCOHOL CLEARINGHOUSE PASS THE TEST?
Rob Hatchett President of Seat My Trucks is helping carriers find drivers and navigate new regulations
Anthony, Zach, and special guest Kyle Lintner from K-Ratio discuss how the freight market is disconnected from the general economy; are we truly out of a freight recession; and how Freight Futures work.
Rob Moseley is an attorney at Moseley Marciniak in South Carolina. He’s defends trucking companies in the courtroom, and he’s watched as verdicts against trucking companies have been soaring. Is this a sudden shift or just another period in a cycle? And how should trucking companies deal with it? Host John Kingston talks to Rob […]
XPO has made spin-offs the new buzzword in logistics for 2020.
We gear up into this frigid week with a wild ride of headlines and industry updates. First, some bad news: a fatal shooting at a family-owned trucking company in San Antonio leaves two dead. A new cap-and-trade carbon emissions bill unveiled in Oregon last week continues to draw criticism from the trucking industry that helped […]
Today we’re taking a FreightWaves flashback to FreightWaves LIVE Chicago where Brian Yormak partner at Story Ventures and Chris Thomas co-founder and president at Detroit Mobility Lab talk Mo’mobility Mo’problems.
SONAR’s rack rate forecaster, Erin Andrews to #FWLive, and more
In this episode, FreightWaves Chief Strategy Officer JT Engstrom chats with John Golob, Chief Marketing Officer with Winmore.
We gear down into the backhaul of our week with news of a headline glitch. Starting early Thursday, small-business truckers who rely on the spot market began reporting problems logging in to the DAT load board to find freight. While the DAT online load board and mobile app are back up and working now, DAT […]
Director of Passport Research JP Hampstead sits down with Director of Freight Market Intelligence Zach Strickland to discuss what’s happening with rates this week.
On today’s episode, DAT goes tango down, fleet bankruptcies hammer used truck market, Love’s adds parking, XPO’s great divide, President of Transportation for DHL Supply Chain Jim Monkmeyer, Cassandra Gaines joins us for Mad Gaines and the case of the crushed trucker, then it’s not the gig economy – it’s Trey Grigg’s Economy as HubTek’s […]
On today’s episode we’re talking about the impact that the “box that changed the world,” aka the shipping container, made on global trade and our everyday lives. Adam Robinson dials in to tell us all about GlobalTraz purchase of Cerasis Plus, news about the Phase One trade deal, spending on supply chain risk, and the […]
Jonathan Evans of Logistical Labs thinks there’s a place for corporate altruism and sustainability in global supply chains.
Zach and Anthony discuss the characteristics of the California freight market, the unintended consequences from regulations and the economic impacts from them.
What does it mean to be “energy independent?” The President of the United States thinks the country is there now. On this week’s Drilling Deep podcast, host John Kingston talks about how the U.S. can never truly be independent under most definitions. But that doesn’t mean that things aren’t a lot better than they used […]
This week we break down Walmart’s future with special guest Zach Strickland.
We gear up this week with a man charged on Thursday with shooting a truck driver on I-269 outside Memphis, Tennessee, after an in-cab video captured the suspected killer. Violence in Mexico from organized cartels has been surging in recent weeks, with the latest incident involving a 13-year-old American boy killed Jan. 3 near Nuevo […]
Bloomberg’s Lee Klaskow on how data drives freight and the economy #FWLive Chicago
Are Walmart drivers paid too much? This and more ridiculous questions on today’s What The Truck?!?
