FreightCasts

Taylor Monks, CEO of BasicBlock, is joined by JP Hampstead, Director of Passport Research at FreightWaves, in this fireside chat on day 1 of the Future of Supply Chain Conference in Northwest Arkansas.  With more than 60 years of experience in logistics innovation, Dunavant is a family-owned business that has the knowledge to ensure global and domestic shipping practices are efficient and effectiv...

Last week, several prominent voices in the business world expressed concern with the macroeconomic outlook. In this episode of The Stockout, Mike Baudendistel discusses those concerns and what they mean for the CPG industry with FreightWaves’ Chief Economist Anthony Smith.   With more than 60 years of experience in logistics innovation, Dunavant is a family-owned business that has the knowledge to...

On today’s episode Dooner and The Dude are asking the question: Is this all just a simulation? They’re talking to Dan McCann, CEO and chief learning officer at SymTrain, about the company’s simulation-based role play training. They’ll find out if sim training is the new way to go for getting your employees up to speed.  The guys may be back from Ballyhack but today they’re taking another trip to t...

Chris Cassidy, EVP of Global Sales & Strategic Partnerships Trax Technologies, is joined by Mary O'Connell, Freight Broker/3PL Expert at FreightWaves, in this fireside chat on day 1 of the Future of Supply Chain Conference in Northwest Arkansas.  With more than 60 years of experience in logistics innovation, Dunavant is a family-owned business that has the knowledge to ensure global and domestic s...

Ron Richardson, Chief Revenue Officer at Turvo, is joined by Anthony Smith, Chief Economist at FreightWaves, in this fireside chat on day 1 of the Future of Supply Chain Conference in Northwest Arkansas. With more than 60 years of experience in logistics innovation, Dunavant is a family-owned business that has the knowledge to ensure global and domestic shipping practices are efficient and effecti...

Melissa Forman, President of TriumphPay, is joined by Travis Rhyan, Chief Product Officer at FreightWaves, in this fireside chat on day 1 of the Future of Supply Chain Conference in Northwest Arkansas. With more than 60 years of experience in logistics innovation, Dunavant is a family-owned business that has the knowledge to ensure global and domestic shipping practices are efficient and effective...

Aaron Rubin, CEO & Founder at ShipHero, is joined by, JP Hampstead, Director of Passport Research at FreightWaves, in this fireside chat on day 1 of the Future of Supply Chain Conference in Northwest Arkansas. With more than 60 years of experience in logistics innovation, Dunavant is a family-owned business that has the knowledge to ensure global and domestic shipping practices are efficient and e...

See what happens when Cassandra finally tracks down Jonathan Salama to figure out what’s going on with Transfix and what the future of tech holds for logistics. With more than 60 years of experience in logistics innovation, Dunavant is a family-owned business that has the knowledge to ensure global and domestic shipping practices are efficient and effective. Dunavant generates supply chain profici...

Danny Gomez, Managing Director of Financial and Emerging Markets at Freightwaves, sits with Eric Rubenstein, Founding Managing Partner at New Climate Ventures, to talk about the energy transition in transportation. Eric talks about how CO2 can be used from everything to sustainable diesel to plastics for dashboards. Eric expands on commoditizing CO2 and what that can mean for our journey to reduci...

Gautam Narang, CEO & Co-Founder at Gatik, and Arjun Narang, Co-Founder & CTO at Gatik, are joined by Grace Sharkey, Staff Writer at FreightWaves, in this fireside chat on day 1 of the Future of Supply Chain Conference in Northwest Arkansas. With more than 60 years of experience in logistics innovation, Dunavant is a family-owned business that has the knowledge to ensure global and domestic shippin...

There are lots of entry points into the trucking industry: driver, broker, mechanic. One that doesn't get a lot of attention is the role of an independent dispatcher. But that job is the focus of what Laura Weston does. She's the head of Effective Dispatching Plus and it's her job to take somebody who might be interested in entering the trucking business as a dispatcher and tell them how to prepar...

Robert Cadena, CEO and Co-founder at Lean Solutions Group, is joined by Kevin Hill ,Executive Publisher at FreightWaves, in this fireside chat on day 1 of the Future of Supply Chain Conference in Northwest Arkansas. With more than 60 years of experience in logistics innovation, Dunavant is a family-owned business that has the knowledge to ensure global and domestic shipping practices are efficient...

I don't know how else to say it but Grace Sharkey is legitimately one of the most hard-working people in all of freight. She writes. She hosts shows. She also cohosts and does guest appearances on shows like Cyberly. And when she's not doing all of that, she's hosting a radio show 5 days a week. How does this former freight broker turned c-suite leader now creator do it all? Well, she breaks it do...

Jeremy Reymer, CEO & Founder of DriverReach, chats with  Atif Siddiqi, Founder/CEO at Branch. Remember you can submit any questions or comments, including those which may appear on upcoming Deeper Dive segments - at podcast@driverreach.com. And don’t forget to rate and review Taking the Hire Road on whatever platform you listen on! Follow Taking The Hire Road on Apple Podcasts Follow Taking The Hi...

Anthony and Zach discuss what a few key market indicators are saying about the slowing freight economy. With more than 60 years of experience in logistics innovation, Dunavant is a family-owned business that has the knowledge to ensure global and domestic shipping practices are efficient and effective. Dunavant generates supply chain proficiency with outstanding, attentive, and expedient customer...

Zach Jecklin, Chief Information Officer at Echo, is joined by Anthony Smith, Chief Economist at FreightWaves, in this fireside chat on day 1 of the Future of Supply Chain Conference in Northwest Arkansas. With more than 60 years of experience in logistics innovation, Dunavant is a family-owned business that has the knowledge to ensure global and domestic shipping practices are efficient and effect...

Greg Price, CEO and Cofounder at Shipwell, is joined by Rachel Premack ,Editorial Director at FreightWaves, in this fireside chat on day 2 of the Future of Supply Chain Conference in Northwest Arkansas. With more than 60 years of experience in logistics innovation, Dunavant is a family-owned business that has the knowledge to ensure global and domestic shipping practices are efficient and effectiv...

Benjamin Gordon, CEO and Managing Partner at BGSA and Cambridge Capital, is joined by Kevin Hill, Executive Publisher at FreightWaves, in this fireside chat on day 2 of the Future of Supply Chain Conference in Northwest Arkansas. With more than 60 years of experience in logistics innovation, Dunavant is a family-owned business that has the knowledge to ensure global and domestic shipping practices...

On today’s episode Dooner and The Dude are talking to FreightWaves Editorial Director Rachel Premack about the state of used truck prices and what that says about the freight market. Scott Pecoriello, Founder and CEO at WeatherOptics talks about building a company based off of weather analytics. We’ll find out how this data helps keep trucks moving. Pecoriello also shares what he learned from runn...

Bill Driegert, Co-Founder and Head of Operations at Uber Freight, is joined by Kevin Hill, Executive Publisher at FreightWaves, in this fireside chat on day 2 of the Future of Supply Chain Conference in Northwest Arkansas.  With more than 60 years of experience in logistics innovation, Dunavant is a family-owned business that has the knowledge to ensure global and domestic shipping practices are e...

Cyrus Sigari, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at UP.Partners, is joined by Steuart L. Walton, Co-Founder; Founder and Chairman; Board of Directors at Runway Group; Game Composite; Walmart, in this fireside chat on day 2 of the Future of Supply Chain Conference in Northwest Arkansas. With more than 60 years of experience in logistics innovation, Dunavant is a family-owned business that has the know...

J.K. Symancyk, President and Chief Executive Officer at Petsmart, is joined by Matt Waller, Dean of the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, in this fireside chat on day 2 of the Future of Supply Chain Conference in Northwest Arkansas.  With more than 60 years of experience in logistics innovation, Dunavant is a family-owned business that has the knowledge to ensure glo...

George Brehovsky, Director of Supply Chain at CHEP, is joined by FreightWaves Editorial Director, Rachel Premack, on day 1 of the Future of Supply Chain Conference in Northwest Arkansas. With more than 60 years of experience in logistics innovation, Dunavant is a family-owned business that has the knowledge to ensure global and domestic shipping practices are efficient and effective. Dunavant gene...

Dennis Anderson, Chief Customer Officer at ArcBest, is joined by FreightWaves Director of Freight Market Intelligence, Zach Strickland, in this fireside chat on day 1 of the Future of Supply Chain Conference in Northwest Arkansas.  With more than 60 years of experience in logistics innovation, Dunavant is a family-owned business that has the knowledge to ensure global and domestic shipping practic...

Earlier this year, Bollinger Motors announced it would pause development of its B1 and B2 electric truck and SUV in favor of Class 3 commercial vehicles. That’s not an easy shift to make, so we asked CEO Robert Bollinger how it’s going to happen. The answer: with Roush’s help. With more than 60 years of experience in logistics innovation, Dunavant is a family-owned business that has the knowledge...