Freightvine

This week’s guest is Bill Driegert, EVP and head of North America for Flexport. Bill has over 20 years in the industry with key roles at Coyote Logistics, Amazon, UberFreight, and now Flexport. With the recent acquisition of Convoy’s technology stack, Bill is back in the familiar position of starting up brokerage operations from scratch - something he did at UberFreight and before that at Convoy....

This week’s guests are John Stauffer and Brian Cristol, co-founders of Isometric Technologies. ISO is a performance management solution that centralizes service data between business partners and connects costs from chargebacks and service-level failures to the responsible parties. Anyone in the industry knows how hard it is to reconcile the root cause of service failures, that is the problem that...

This week’s guest is Dr. Zac Rogers, Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at Colorado State University.  In addition to his academic duties at CSU, Zac also co-developed and currently leads the publishing of the Logistics Manager Index or LMI.  Fashioned in the same way as the Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) which has been around for over 50 years, the LMI is a diffusion metric that capt...

This week’s guest is  Jim Filter, EVP, Group President Transportation & Logistics. The conversation centers on Schneider’s adoption of electric vehicles within their California drayage operations. This is a highly relevant topic for all shippers and carriers as we see the electrification of transportation - both freight and passenger - continue to be promoted and subsidized by the government a...

This week’s guest is Dean Croke, Principal Analyst and all-around trucking expert here at DAT Freight & Analytics. Dean has over 20 years of experience in the long-haul trucking industry - from (and still) being a driver to insurance to software and analytics.  In this episode, Dean discusses the state of the TL market - specifically the capacity side - to include the current level of spot rat...

This week’s guest is Steve Raetz, Dir. Research and Market Intelligence at CH Robinson. Steve is a perfect person to discuss strategic use of the spot market as he not only brings 30+ years of experience in a variety of roles at CHR, but he currently leads CHR’s research efforts working with universities and others. The topic of spot as a strategy has been a research focus for the last few years a...

This week’s guest is Kelly Abney, Chief Logistics Officer and EVP for the United States Postal Service. Kelly has over 30 years of experience in retail and third-party logistics prior to joining the USPS. He previously held senior roles in transportation at Walmart, New Breed Logistics, XPO Logistics, and most recently, the US Postal Service. During the conversation, Kelly shares how the postal se...

This week’s guest is Jennifer Carpenter, President & CEO of The American Waterways Operators or AWO. Most shippers are not as familiar with the  US Domestic Tugboat, Towboat, and Barge Industry. This episode should shed some light on this often-overlooked segment of the freight transportation industry. With more than thirty years in the industry, Jennifer has great insights into where it has c...

This week’s guest is Alex Leslie, Research Analyst at the American Transportation Research Institute.  Alex is the lead author on ATRI’s latest research publication “Analysis of the Operational Costs of Trucking: 2023 Update”.  ATRI has been publishing these very detailed reports on trucking costs for over 15 years now.  Using detailed polling and data analysis, Alex is able to reveal not only the...

This week’s guest is Seth Clevenger, Managing Editor at Transport Topics, where they just released their 2023 Top 100 Carriers List. Published annually for over three decades, the Top 100 Carriers list provides the most accurate detailed snapshot of the leading companies in the trucking industry. In our conversation we discuss some surprises in this year’s list, recent mergers and acquisitions, an...

This week’s guest is my colleague Jeff Hopper, CMO for DAT. Jeff is leading DAT’s initiatives for combating double brokerage and other fraud on transportation load boards. Working with shippers, brokers, carriers, government agencies, as well as other platform providers, DAT is actively designing and implementing approaches to both keep bad actors out and detect behavior that indicates potential f...

This week’s guest is Professor Yossi Sheffi, Director of MIT’s Center for Transportation & Logistics and author of the recent book, The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, AI, and the Future of Work. Written mainly in response to the general public’s newly awakened awareness of and interest in supply chains during the pandemic, the book explains in great clarity how supply chains work, why the...

This week’s guest is Matt Harding, Head of 4PL Data and Analytics at UberFreight.  With over 25 years in the industry at logistics.com, Chainalytics, Transplace, and now UberFreight, Matt is a leading light in applying analytics and visualization to the transportation industry.  In our conversation, we trace the evolution of data science in trucking, discuss the understanding gap between the C-sui...

This week’s guest is Dr. Jason Miller, Professor and Head of the Supply Chain Management Department at the Michigan State University's Eli Broad College of Business.  As an economist working in the logistics and freight transportation industry, Jason always has great and often unexpected insights into the transportation market and overall conditions.  In our conversation we discuss the current mac...

This week’s guest is Corey Johnson, VP of North America Product Supply & Merchandising at Procter & Gamble. Corey has been leading P&G’s journey transforming their physical distribution into what they refer to as a “Multi-Dimensional Supply Chain”. In our conversation, we discuss exactly what P&G means by “Multi-Dimensional” to include increasing automation within their facilities,...

This week’s guest is Rich Mohr,  Vice President, Fleet Solutions for Chargepoint.   Prior to joining Chargepoint, Rich spent over 25 years at Ryder in various positions culminating in being CTO.  So, he understands how to run and manage large commercial fleets.  At Chargepoint, he is working with companies to ease the transition to EVs.  In our conversation, we talk about the economics of electrif...

This week’s guest is Marc Levinson, author of several influential books on business and finance. The two that we focus on in our conversation are: The Box that details how the introduction of seemingly simple shipping containers transformed the global economy and Outside The Box where he argues that globalization is now entering a new era in which moving physical products will matter much less tha...

This week’s guest is Mike Kilgore, founder and former CEO of Chainalytics. Founded in the fall of 2001, just days after 9/11, Chainalytics became the premier supply chain consultancy combining world-class analytics skills with deep practical expertise.  Mike combined his knowledge of supply chain software along with his consulting experience from EY to create a truly unique firm. The Freight Marke...

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Get a 360-view of freight markets with the deepest, broadest and most accurate data on rates, capacity, performance and more. Visit DAT iQ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Get a 360-view of freight markets with the deepest, broadest and most accurate data on rates, capacity, performance and more. Visit DAT iQ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Get a 360-view of freight markets with the deepest, broadest and most accurate data on rates, capacity, performance and more. Visit DAT iQ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Get a 360-view of freight markets with the deepest, broadest and most accurate data on rates, capacity, performance and more. Visit DAT iQ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Get a 360-view of freight markets with the deepest, broadest and most accurate data on rates, capacity, performance and more. Visit DAT iQ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Get a 360-view of freight markets with the deepest, broadest and most accurate data on rates, capacity, performance and more. Visit DAT iQ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.