CARRIER SUMMIT
Recruiting, Retention, Regulation, Operational Efficiency, and Maintenance

AUGUST 19-20, 2020 // VIRTUAL EVENT

FreightWaves and SeatMyTrucks are excited to present the Carrier Summit on Recruiting, Retention, Regulation, Operational Efficiency and Maintenance. Expect to hear from trail-blazing trucking pioneers who have impacted the way we do business today and the way we will do it tomorrow. Get the latest updates on how truckload carriers are adapting to the new world we live in. You’ll hear about driver management and training in a remote working environment, recruiting and minimizing turnover strategies, M&A activity, and reducing downtime efforts. The one and a half day event will be structured into 3 primary blocks – driver management, operational efficiency, and maintenance. As always with FreightWaves Virtual Events, attendance is free and there’s no pre-registration required. Come ready to learn from the best and experience what the future of the truckload industry has to offer.

agenda

Welcome

9:00 am

Michael Vincent
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio
Tim Dooner
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio

Fuller Speed Ahead: Empowering the Digitization of the Trucking Industry with Blume Global

9:05 am

Craig Fuller
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio
Pervinder Johar
Blume Global
Speaker Bio

Keynote: Winning Strategies

10:00 am

Phillip Stutts
Win BIG Media
Speaker Bio
Emily Szink
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio

Fireside Chat: The Future of CDL Training

10:35 am

Brad Ball
Roadmaster Drivers School
Speaker Bio
Don Lefeve
Commercial Vehicle Training Association (CVTA)
Speaker Bio

Fireside Chat: Keeping Downtime Low: Strategies to Get Your Trucks Back on the Road, Quick

10:50 am

What the Truck?!?

11:00 am

Michael Vincent
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio
Tim Dooner
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio
Chad Eichelberger
Reliance Partners
Speaker Bio
Siamak Azmoudeh
SkyBitz
Speaker Bio
Anthony N. Petitte
TruckPark Inc.
Speaker Bio
Pierre LaGuerre
Fleeting
Speaker Bio

Fireside Chat: Exploring the Environment of Trucking & Logistics Insurance with Reliance Partners

12:00 pm

Andrew Ladebauche
Reliance Partners
Speaker Bio
Brenda Wiser
Reliance
Speaker Bio

LTL Update: Efficiency in Operations

12:20 pm

Welcome Back

1:00 pm

Michael Vincent
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio
Tim Dooner
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio

Fireside Chat: 2020 in Review and What is to Come in the Future

1:05 pm

JT Engstrom
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio
Rob Hatchett
SeatMyTrucks
Speaker Bio

Fireside Chat: Strategies to Attract Younger Drivers to the Industry

1:40 pm

Andrew Cox
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio
Sadie Church
Artur Express
Speaker Bio

Fireside Chat: Detention and Dwell Time

1:50 pm

Andrew Berberick
Baton
Speaker Bio
Kevin Hill
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio
Nate Robert
Baton
Speaker Bio

What the Truck?!?

2:25 pm

Glenn Jones
Blume Global
Speaker Bio
Marilyn Surber
Tenstreet
Speaker Bio
Michael Vincent
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio
Tim Dooner
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio

Fireside Chat: How To Minimize Driver Turnover

3:20 pm

Chad Hendricks
Brand Outcomes, Inc.
Speaker Bio
Max Farrell
WorkHound
Speaker Bio

Freightonomics

3:40 pm

Anthony Smith
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio
Zach Strickland
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio

Fireside Chat: Driver Recruiting as an HR Strategy

4:05 pm

David Robinson
Scopelitis, Garvin, Light, Hanson & Feary, P.C.
Speaker Bio
Kevin Hill
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio

Fireside Chat: Understanding How Freight Network Engineering Leads to Profitable Trucking Operations

4:20 pm

David Roush
KSM Transport Advisors
Speaker Bio
Sherri Garner Brumbaugh
Garner Trucking, Inc.
Speaker Bio

Closing Remarks

5:00 pm

Michael Vincent
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio
Tim Dooner
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio

Fireside Chat: The Data on Driver Recruitment in the Age of COVID

9:05 am

Rob Hatchett
SeatMyTrucks
Speaker Bio
Tim Crawford
Tenstreet
Speaker Bio

Fireside Chat: M&A Activity

9:30 am

Spencer Tenney
Tenney Group
Speaker Bio
JT Engstrom
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio

Fireside Chat: Military Hiring Initiatives

9:45 am

Jim Morbach
Werner Enterprises
Speaker Bio
Matt Beach
Ten4 Recruiting
Speaker Bio

Great Quarter, Guys

10:00 am

Andrew Cox
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio
Kevin Hill
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio
Benjamin Gordon
BGSA and Cambridge Capital
Speaker Bio

Fuller Speed Ahead: Meet Variant, the Digital Fleet Transforming U.S. Xpress

10:35 am

Craig Fuller
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio
Eric Fuller
US Xpress
Speaker Bio

Fireside Chat: Dedicated to Improving Customer Supply Chains Through Integrated Solutions

11:20 am

George Abernathy
Emerge
Speaker Bio
Dan Van Alstine
Ruan Transportation Management Systems
Speaker Bio

WavesTalk: The Driver Wages Rollercoaster

11:40 am

Leah Shaver
The National Transportation Institute
Speaker Bio

Welcome Back

12:30 pm

Michael Vincent
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio
Tim Dooner
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio

Technology in Action: McLeod

12:35 pm

Heidi Boggs
Enterprise Consulting Services (ECS), Mcleod Software
Speaker Bio
Chris Hummer
Don Hummer Trucking Corp.
Speaker Bio

Technology in Action: SkyBitz Next Generation Technologies

12:50 pm

Technology in Action: Supply Chain Success Requires a Partnership Between Vendors and Customers

1:00 pm

Nicole Clemons
C&N Deliveries LLC
Speaker Bio
Zach Strickland
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio

Technology in Action: Carrier Benchmarking

1:15 pm

Jonathan Wolfrum
Keller Trucking
Speaker Bio
Todd Davis
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio

Freight Forecasting LIVE

1:35 pm

Michael Vincent
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio
Matt Pyatt
Arrive Logistics
Speaker Bio

Closing Remarks

2:05 pm

Michael Vincent
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio
Tim Dooner
FreightWaves
Speaker Bio

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