FreightCasts Weekly Recap (4/13-4/19)

Michael Vincent (left) and Timothy Dooner (right) co-host the popular simulcasted FreightWaves show "WHAT THE TRUCK?!?" Image: FreightWaves

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  • Coronavirus Freight Market Update
    • Are economic impact payments the road to recovery?
      • We talk about the economic impact that COVID-19 is having on freight and the transportation industry. Viewers are encouraged to comment and call in during broadcasts Tuesdays and Thursdays at noon ET on FreightWaves’ Linkedin, Facebook and YouTube channels.
      • This episode features IntelliTrans President Ken Sherman and FreightWaves Market Experts John Kingston, Anthony Smith, Zach Strickland and Andrew Cox.
    • How a hog plant shutdown hits freight
      • Michael Vincent and Kevin Hill talk about the economic impact COVID-19 is having on freight and the transportation industry and are joined by Alan Adler, who’s looking at what pork shutdowns will mean for trucking. Eric Kulisch brings air freight into focus, and Zach Strickland breaks down the latest Cass data. Andrew Cox and Anthony Smith also join in.
  • WHAT THE TRUCK?!?
    • Preppernomics and economic impact payments
      • Dooner and The Dude are covering headlines concerning economic woes showing up across retail and freight data sets, freight executives joining President Donald Trump’s Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups, and sabotaged PPE supplies.
      • We’ll talk to TriumphPay’s Melissa Forman, SVP & Chief Operations Officer, owner-operator Ingrid Brown as well as FreightWaves EVP of Content Emily Szink who details FreightWaves LIVE @Home, the No. 1 virtual event in our industry.
      • Then we hear from you in Comment Section Rodeo!
    • After the storm: Weather and freight forecasts
      • Dooner and The Dude are talking about all of the latest COVID-19 responses across freight. On land, sea and air, brokers, carriers and shippers scramble to lend support and stay afloat during the pandemic.
      • FreightWaves Senior Meteorologist Nick Austin covers the devastating storms that struck the South late Sunday night and early Monday morning.
      • Big Rig Wraps Transport Truck Advertising: Angela Baltkois talks about spreading coronavirus awareness 53 feet at a time.
      • Plus, a SONAR-powered breakdown of the freight market as we dive deeper into where rates and volumes are headed.
      • And, Emily Szink on this week’s big and little deals concerning trucker relief funds, milk dumping, Amazon’s shipping struggles, Levi’s pivot, delayed iPhones, and entertainment during the quarantine.
    • Put That Coffee Down
      • How to make your best demo video yet
        • Dooner and Hill are talking about the power of the demo video. You’ll learn all about presenting yourself and your product in the best light possible.
        • They’ll be joined by special guest Kyle Tyler. He’ll shed insight on what’s worked and what hasn’t worked during the early stages of his demo video build-outs.
        • Plus, listener feedback, advice and community building!
    • Freightonomics
    • Great Quarter, Guys
      • Is your corporate culture positive or toxic?
        • We are joined by Ryan Schreiber of CarrierDirect to discuss how logistics firms can cultivate a positive corporate culture. Also, we detail this week’s One Good Piece of Data and talk about when the freight market might find a bottom.
    • Fuller Speed Ahead
    • Drilling Deep
      • Getting that relief money from Washington into the right hands
        • On this week’s Drilling Deep, host John Kingston heard from Jack Rybicki, a managing principal at the accounting and consulting firm CLA.
        • Jack has been steering many clients through the process of trying to get money from the federal government under the CARES Act — in particular, the Payroll Protection Program that will allow employees to be retained and a lot of the bills to be paid. It’s good for firms of fewer than 500 people; it’s good for an independent owner-operator.
        • John will also talk about numbers from the diesel market that help confirm that not only is the trucking market weak but based on diesel demand, it’s historically weak. The numbers don’t lie.

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2 Comments

  1. ryan sanders

    Hello Tom, the freight market is up and down every year. There are year round lanes, and spot lanes. Year round lanes we want to keep at a higher than market rate to our carriers during the down time, but expect a minimal increase come tight capacity. This will turn back into a carrier market at some point, and brokers and shippers will have to deal with very inflated rates spot market carriers try to impose. Many carriers do the exact same thing many brokers are doing right now, and utilize a change to hopefully make up for the months where they do not do well. Lets also not forget fuel is at a new low, and those are real costs carriers are saving money on. The adjustment of low spot rates is partly due to the fuel factor.

  2. tom

    It is shameful what the Brokers are doing right now with rates and the obscene profiteering.
    Freight is almost always bid on a Yearly basis , You do not re bid lanes because a pandemic has hit the country for 2 months.
    So the excuse when they try and increase their markup right now that ” this is all I have in it” is a lie, they are just trying to increase their profit margin while the can for 2 months or so.
    Example: A Large ( top 5 Broker) has a load from TN to a Walmart DC in PA …now we all know that they are not bidding on this load because it is a load they cover multiple times a month, they have this lane. and every day of the week normally they try and cover it for 1400.00 so they perhaps have a rate in with Your normal 15% markup of say 1600-1650.00 with their customer. so now trying to move it for 900.00 is shameful and profiteering.. and the largest Brokers , the ones You interview on this site are the worst culprits.

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Jack Glenn

Jack Glenn is a sponsored content writer for FreightWaves and lives in Chattanooga, TN with his golden retriever, Beau. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business.