Yellow disrupts LTL; lease vs. company drivers; and ice bucket challenge returns to freight – WTT

On today’s episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is talking about a week full of disruptions for LTL shippers. How has the market handled the largest trucking bankruptcy in history?

Bitfreighter’s Brad Perling has brought the ice bucket challenge back to freight. We’ll find out why. Plus, we’ll learn how to win freight with Live Quote. 

The Roots’ Monte Cedillo is a Yellow alum and an open-deck savant. We’ll find out what his experience was like at Yellow and learn all about the food, feed and energy market.

FreightWaves’ Justin Martin breaks down a truckjacking; what happens to Yellow trailers; company versus lease/purchase drivers; and truckers versus Buc-ee’s. 

TextLocate’s Ryan Rogers and FreightWaves’ Haley Fazio are here to talk about FreightWaves’ next in-person event, F3. We’ll learn all about the greatest festival in freight. Both will also make good on ice bucket challenges.

Plus, chocolate, nacho cheese and lemons have spilled across U.S. highways this week; a horror movie about sloths; and how not to be your own personal Yellow. 

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One Comment

  1. john loughlin

    poor management got greedy taking out loans to by companys then poor manangeement greed bit them after they hid over billion dollars where is money didnt give it to drivers equipment junk so where is all the money

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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.