Is LTL booming; OpenTable for box trucks; 2024 freight outlook – WTT

On today’s episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is joined in-studio by guest co-host Matt McLelland of Covenant. Matt is talking about his Cybertruck preorder, decorating trucks for the holidays and where sustainability is headed in 2024.

Rocket Shipping’s Gabe Pankonin is here with a narrative violation. His company just set record revenue in November and he’s here to share how to win in a down market. 

OpenTable for box trucks? That’s what Grafton Elliott at Onward Delivery does. We’ll find out how Onward helps four of the top 10 big and bulky brokers in the nation get through peak season. 

What’s the freight market going to look like in 2024 and will the beatings continue until morale improves? Averitt Express’ Kent Williams breaks down a 2024 market outlook, nearshoring, being a top performer in LTL and giving back to the community. 

Plus, holiday toy drives; trucking’s favorite Christmas movie; Mother Nature versus freight; a semi-truck Christmas tree stand; and did the college playoff system get it right?

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One Comment

  1. Betty Webster

    What the truck is going on with Yellow frt why are they still listed on the stock market and why haven’t they paid their workers that they left standing at a lock gate what’s happening to the people at the top who really screwed up poor management and how did the government government bail them out and didn’t have any oversight on the 300 million what is the poor workers going to do 30 yrs serviice not old enough to retire or get Social Security and now black balled trying to get another job no one will hire because the upper management who screwed up made it sound like employees ruin the company I hate this I really do 30000 employees out in the street and Barney Sanders the only one speaking up for them even the head Teamster was a screwball sorry pissed retired Yellow frt employee Hate this for so many friends that cannot get a job right now

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