3PL Live

In this episode of 3PL Live, host Jeremy Thone speaks with Maggie Petrovic, Vice President, Strategic Initiatives at Emerge. Emerge is reinventing the freight procurement process for full truckload RFPs saving back time from back and forth emails.   Supply chain industry veteran Andrew Leto founded Emerge after building notable companies such as GlobalTranz. Petrovic explains in this epi...

In this episode of 3PL Live, host Jeremy Thone speaks with Paul Jaroslawski, the founder of Freight Caviar.   Jaroslawski recovering from a knee injury, started a meme account poking fun at some of the madness in the freight industry.   Jaroslawski also lived in Kyiv, Ukraine, for a few years, so we explore how the war affected some of his friends.   3PL Live

In this episode of 3PL Live, host Jeremy Thone speaks with Sean Freedman Founder of Freightzy about entrepreneurship. Freedman founded a freight brokerage after ten years of working for an agent.  Sean wanted to have more control over the details of running a business, such as the marketing initiatives, without being tied to a larger organization. Freedman started the brokerage during the pan...

In this episode of 3PL Live, Jeremy Thone interviews Scott Baldyga, his piano teacher, a published author, musician, documentarian, and dad.   Baldyga explores some creative processes for staying focused when writing big pieces like a book or blog post.  We also talk about collecting NFTs and blockchain technology.  3PL Live 

In this episode of 3PL Live, host Jeremy Thone speaks with Trey Griggs with Beta Consulting Group.  Griggs created two podcasts, Word on the Street and Standing Out.  Griggs created Word on the Street as a way not to have lunch by himself and now has multiple people on the show at once.  Trey is made a name for himself by creating good content, networking, and building community.&nb...

In this episode of 3PL Live, host Jeremy Thone speaks with author Fred Copestake about his two books, Hybrid Selling and Selling Through Partnering Skills. One of my favorite concepts Copestake speaks about is "busy busy busy" for sales reps.  This concept is where representatives are working hard but not working strategically. We also explore the ideas of writing books or doing big projects...

In this episode of 3PL Live, host Jeremy Thone speaks with Author and Podcaster Andy Paul about his new book "Sell Without Selling Out".  In the book, Paul describes sellers selling out or selling in. Selling out is the outdated way of selling; lazy, pushy, sleazy, and self-interested reps.   Selling in better aligns with reps' values and character with the buyer's interest in mind. &nbs...

In this episode of 3PL Live host, Jeremy Thone speaks with Ryan Schreiber of Metafora about the age-old question of buying vs. building a TMS. Schreiber recommends coming up with a list of must-haves for your TMS based on the maturity and complexity of your business.  3PL Live

In this episode of 3PL Live host, Jeremy Thone speaks with Rak-Joon Choi, VP of Business Development at Torqata, an analytics arm of American Tire Distributors (ATD). Choi built blockchain products for IBM called Food Trust, which helped with food recalls from Salmonella or removed bad lots of products.  Recalls would take weeks before Blockchain; now, it's done instantly with products like I...

In this episode of 3PL Live host, Jeremy Thone speaks with Freight Analyst Davis Dye of Visible Supply Chain about automating 1700 freight shipments! Dye is a data-driven professional, and we speak about he saved Visible SCM 334 hours of labor by utilizing a modern tech stack.   Dye goes into detail about analyzing shipments that are prime for automation.   We hope you enjoy the epi...

In this episode of 3PL Live, host Jeremy Thone speaks with Cameron Robertson about his journey from Technical support to CEO.   3PL Systems is a Transportation Management Software (TMS) built for Freight Brokers.  Robertson spent countless nights developing the platform working with the engineering team to rebuild the software from the ground up.  We also speak about rebuilding the...

Einride is a Swedish technology company that develops and provides freight mobility solutions based on electric and autonomous vehicles, leading the transition to sustainable transport. It became the world’s first company to operate an autonomous, all-electric freight vehicle on a commercial route on a public road. Einride's mission is to make the earth a better place by Intelligent Movement. This...

In this episode of 3PL Live, host Jeremy Thone speaks with freight broker entrepreneur Racquelle Pakutz of Zen Freight Solutions.  Pakutz advocates for mindfulness and meditation for mental health, given the current supply strain on supply chains.  This episode explores mindfulness tips, box breathing, and mental health.  We hope you enjoy it. 3PL Systems Team

In this Episode of 3PL Live host, Jeremy Thone speaks with Abby Hafenbredl, VP of Sales at Sage Freight.  The two explore some of the issues causing a driver shortage in trucking.  We explore drivers 18 +, driver pay, and some of the root causes we aren't attracting more drivers to the States. We hope you enjoy it! 3PL Live

LinkedIn isn't the easiest platform to crack.  In this episode of 3PL Live host Jeremy Thone picks Geni Cor's brain about using LinkedIn to the tilt. We chat about building an audience, posting strategies and monetizing LinkedIn. We hope you enjoy. 3PL Live

In this episode of 3PL Live host, Jeremy Thone has a special guest host Luca Uransel of Cloudysyte.  We interview space tech entrepreneur Simon Gwozdz about his entrepreneurial journey sending rockets to space. Gwozdz based in Singapore had been fascinated with space since a child.  We explore ideas of what these rockets are used for in-space such as imagery, maritime movements, and GPS...

Web 3.0 and Metaverses are the next generation of the internet blurring the lines between the analog and digital worlds.  In this episode of 3PL Live host, Jeremy Thone speaks with A Co-Founder of The Star Atlas.   Star Atlas is a AAA blockchain video game built on Solana's blockchain.  The premise of the game is to explore space with unreal graphics.  Also, new economic models...

We all have worked with high-performing bosses with low emotional intelligence. Katrina Burrus Ph. D. affectionately coins these folks brilliant jerks. In this episode, we explore why brilliant jerks end up the way they're.  Burrus works with these leaders to become more self-aware on the way they impact staff.  Ultimately, giving the leaders softer skills to better connect with their st...

Being an SDR in the SaaS world is a game of failure.  You can cold call someone say the right thing, to the right person, and still get hung up on. Jesse Gittler experienced this firsthand as a rep earlier in his career.  He looked around the room on the sales floor and noticed that none of the reps made their calls. The ones that did were quiet and talking super low so none of their col...

Ashley Zagst is one of those people you meet that goes for after her goals.  Zagst started her career as a professional dancer where getting rejected is more likely than getting a gig.   Rents in San Francisco are expensive so she decided to get into a content marketing role at various startups.  She made it to the head of marketing at Bravado. The mission of Bravado is to elevate t...

In this episode of 3PL Live host, Jeremy Thone speaks with Nick Dangles about changing career paths from a lawyer to working in the supply chain.   Dangles Co-Founded Kinetic to help freight tech companies with go-to-market strategies, sales enablement, and marketing as fractional roles.   We talk about career changes and the idea behind starting Kinetic.  We also talk about where s...

In this episode of 3PL Live host, Jeremy Thone speaks with founder Liz Wayne of Able Transport Solutions about starting a heavy haul brokerage.  Wayne grew her business to 25 million without any sales reps!  She did this by teaching her operations to be meticulous when booking orders with Able Transport solutions.   We get into all sorts of things in this episode including asking th...

In this Episode of 3PL Live host, Jeremy Thone interviews Scott Leese one of the top sales voices on LinkedIn creating interesting revenue content.  Leese is a three-time author, six-time SaaS startup executive, and takes startups from 0-25 million ARR in his consulting business.  We talk about pressure in sales leadership roles.  We also talk about side hustles and entrepreneurship...

Supply Chain Visibility is a hot topic in freight tech.  p44 started in 2014 to bring a business intelligence layer around the supply chain tracking.  In this episode of 3PL Live, host Jeremy Thone speaks with Josh Main the Director of Global Alliances/Channels about his role at p44.   Main is part of a business unit that partners with over 60 TMS providers including 3PL Systems, Me...

In this episode of 3PL Live, host Jeremy Thone speaks to serial entrepreneur Jeff Dangelo.  Dangelo is one of the founders of Turvo a collaboration software in the supply chain with several hundred employees.   Recently, Dangelo got the opportunity to step into a managing partner role at Lighthouse.  Lighthouse is a traditional freight brokerage that's looking to undergo a digital t...