Pipelines, bullwhips and death by disruption — WTT

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On today’s episode, Dooner and The Dude are talking about yet another ransomware attack, the bullwhip effect on demand and what the Colonial Pipeline outage means to the bottom line.

Plus, the rise of supply chain education; why truckers are buying dogecoin; where Biden’s infrastructure plan money should go; Steam Logistics on its new domestic offerings; inside the world of team drivers; and live music from trucker Taylor Barker.

They’re joined by special guests Chris Tang, a distinguished professor and Edward W. Carter chair in business administration at UCLA; Steam Logistics President Steve Cox and CEO Jason Provonsha; Daniel Stanton, CEO of Mr. Supply Chain; Taylor Barker, owner-operator of Heniff Transportation Systems LLC; and team driver, Jason Kraft.

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Timothy Dooner

Dooner is an award-winning podcaster who hosts and produces FreightWaves' WHAT THE TRUCK?!? In under a year he helped build FreightCasts, the world’s largest logistics and supply chain podcast network in media. WTT is ranked in Apple Podcasts top-20 Business News podcasts. He also writes a newsletter of the same title with over 15k subscribers in the supply chain and trucking niche. Dooner has been in freight since 2005 and has held directors positions in operations, sales, consulting, and marketing. He has worked with FedEx, Reebok, Adidas, L.L. Bean, Hasbro, Louis Vuitton, and many more high level clients across the full spectrum of the supply chain. He was a featured speaker at TEDx Chattanooga.