Uber Freight moving to the beat of this drummer – WHAT THE TRUCK?!? (with video)

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On today’s episode, Dooner and The Dude are talking to Uber Freight’s Bill Driegert who plays a drum solo, the five worst weather states for trucking, the CEO perspective from SmartHop’s Guillermo Garcia on building a company, and CRST International’s Hugh Ekberg on the potential impacts of a driver shortage.

Plus, Bad News/Good News concerning this week’s DHL Supply Chain Pricing Power Index, broker transparency, and the NFL’s COVID quandary.

They’re joined by special guests Bill Driegert, head of operations and co-founder, Uber Freight; Hugh Ekberg, president and CEO, CRST International; Guillermo Garcia, co-founder and CEO at SmartHop.

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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.