Small shipper vs. mega broker

On today’s episode Dooner and The Dude are talking to a small shipper that lost over $13,000 on a shipment of flowers that it said was due to broker negligence. Plants Without Borders founder Mark Javier tells us all about what went wrong between his company and TQL.

Labor issues have led to overworked safety departments. Mike Precia, CEO and president at Fleetworthy Solutions, shares how the merger between technology and people can help compensate for shortages. 

Brokers, are you sick of chasing talent? David Stone, senior director of transportation management at Ryder System, tells us about the need to be where the talent is. 

FreightWavesTV producer Bill Priestley co-hosts and leads a news roundtable. 

Plus, good news/bad news concerning trucker pet adoptions; cats watching the video game Stray; Heinz Ketchup Freiz; and brawls at Disney World.

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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.