FreightWaves Today

Ryan Schreiber - Director of Growth - Metafora - Austin, TX Freight tech is becoming more accessible = a more level playing field New tech is emerging, and with apps, integrations, and the cloud, SMB are more able to compete with bigger players.  This works in parallel with the fact that customer and vendor expectations have never been higher. Not all Tech is Value-Add Given the growth of readily...

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Alan Adler - Midwest Bureau Chief - FreightWaves - Nunica, MI What’s the latest? What is the impact of not selling its China operations? With the company losing its NASDAQ listing and the leadership changes of late, is TuSimple in trouble? If these changes are simply to deal with the economics of the time, can they right this ship with or without the partners they need to survive? Learn more about...

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Thomas Wasson - Enterprise Trucking Expert - FreightWaves - Chattanooga, TN Anne Reinke - President - TIA - Washington, DC Bill Priestley - Producer - FreightWaves NOW Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blythe Brumleve - CEO - Digital Dispatch - Jacksonville, FL Instagram influencers are going back to getting real jobs. Legacy media is dying. And AI threatens to upend even more of how we think about creating and consuming content online. What does this mean for where we get our news and updates? What does it mean for SEO? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Mary O’Connell - Running on Ice Contributor - FreightWaves - St. Louis, MO What are the typical challenges faced by perishable shippers when it comes to same-day or next-day delivery? How do you handle varying temperatures on a cross dock for example eggs, lettuce, and pharmaceuticals at the same time? How do you ensure that perishable items are transported safely during same-day or next-day deliv...

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Joanna Marsh - Staff Writer - FreightWaves - Falls Church, VA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Eric Kulisch - Air Cargo Editor - FreightWaves - Vancouver, WA Labor contracts have been in the news, let’s start with the good news with Amerijet - what can you tell us about this most recent finalized deal? Then there’s the disconcerting news about WestJet and a possible lockout. FedEx recently had a pilot labor agreement go through - what have you noticed in terms of how these deals are being m...

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Noi Mahoney - Borderlands Reporter - FreightWaves - San Antonio, TX Dr. John Fowler - Supply Chain Professor - Arizona State University - Tempe, AZ Kaylee Nix - Reporter - FreightWaves What has the growth out in Texas and Arizona been like in the last 20 years when it comes to chip production and technological investment? Does this feel like a gold rush given the location, to be close to the south...

Tony Mulvey - Senior Analyst - FreightWaves Joe Antoshak - Senior Editorial Researcher - FreightWaves Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harris Ligon - CEO - Telegraph - Chicago, IL Service + Volume: Still seeing soft volumes across most commodities with service remaining stable (Question here: can it get much better from here?) Outlook: is there any reason to believe we will see an uptick in volume in the broader freight markets in the second half? (Conflicting reports from media outlets) Mohawk’s letter to the Federal Maritime Co...

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Mary O'Connell- 3PL Expert - FreightWaves - St. Louis, MO The one thing that the world has said is coming for our jobs, Artificial intelligence. How is artificial intelligence being utilized in the freight broker industry, and what benefits does it offer over traditional methods? What time savings are brokers able to realize from implementing Ai, like ChatGPT or Ai documentation tools, into their...

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Tony Mulvey - Senior Analyst - FreightWaves Anthony Smith - Chief Economist - FreightWaves Zach Strickland - Head of Freight Intelligence - FreightWaves - Chattanooga, TN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Charlie Saffro - CEO - CS Consulting - Chicago, IL Marilyn Surber - Advisor Team - Tenstreet - Tulsa, OK Bill Priestley - Producer - FreightWaves NOW Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Kingston - Editor-At-Large - FreightWaves - Carle Place, NY New case is Olson vs. California Olson plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction was first rejected by a federal district court. But it then won a  partial victory when a federal appeals court ruled in March that the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California improperly dismissed the Olson claims that the patch...