Will trucking beat analysts’ second-quarter expectations?

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In our second earnings season update, we break down first-quarter earnings for Knight-Swift, Old Dominion and Landstar. We also discuss a bullish scenario based on consumer spending for second-quarter trucking performance. Then it’s off to our long/short segment on Draft Kings and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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Kevin Hill is the executive publisher at FreightWaves, where he formerly served as director of editorial and research. Kevin is also the host of Put That Coffee Down, the popular freight sales podcast, a former freight broker and the founder of CarrierLists. Kevin holds an MBA from the University of Oklahoma.