On today’s episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is talking about one of the biggest issues plaguing our industry: double brokering and load board fraud. Truckstop found reports of fraud jumped by 400% from the fourth quarter of 2021 to the fourth quarter of 2022. How can shippers and carriers fight back?
We’ll hear from Metafora’s Ryan Schreiber and FreightWaves’ Rachel Premack and Justin Martin as they shine a light on the problem.
Waabi promises a safe and scalable new paradigm in autonomous trucks with its solution. We’ll meet Waabi founder and CEO Raquel Urtasun, who, aside from being a professor at the University of Toronto, spent nearly four years as Uber’s chief scientist in its Advanced Technologies Group.
Plus, is the freight market getting less volatile; Florida immigrant trucking protest flops; blitz week begins; Tesla’s new robots; awful TikTok recipes; and a new method to strap with.
Josh
According to Ralph Nader, in an interview he gave at Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray, self driving trucks (and cars) cannot be made safe for driving in traffic with human piloted cars. And they’re also pretty bad at bad weather conditions. We know carriers want pretty badly to eliminate labor though, so a possible outcome is that they team up with big manufacturers and retailers to make it so only autonomous trucks can drive on interstate highways. Sounds ridiculous, I know, but if they have the power I believe they’d do it.