Is it doom and gloom for trucking?

On today’s episode Dooner and The Dude are talking about the market downturn. Are those who doubt it acting like the mayor from “Jaws”? FreightWaves’ Rachel Premack breaks down the latest from SONAR and Bank of America. 

John Luciani, COO of LTL solutions at A. Duie Pyle, talks about how its division got awarded a platinum regional LTL carrier designation by Echo Global Logistics. What does it take to meet the LTL market’s needs in ‘22? We’ll find out.

Robert Kaferle, director of safety at Reliance Partners, dives deep on the true cost of poor SMS scores.

Andrei Unc, a freight broker at Varstar Alliance, discusses the new agent model and brokers working remote. 

Back The Truck Up’s James “Rooster” Bowen and Justin Martin go around the horn and bring us the latest in trending trucking stories, including Marvin Keller Trucking filing Chapter 11, life on the road, proper strapping, life inside a brokerage, and the case of the missing Peterbilt. 

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