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Kaylee Nix talks to the CEO of Locus Robotics about how the new partnership with DHL will pave the way for warehouse automation in the future. Follow At Your Doorstep on Apple Podcasts Follow At Your Doorstep on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Nick Hillesheim, Chief Sales Officer at TVC Pro-Driver, for an insightful overview of CDL legal services and learn how a professional driver can leverage outsourced legal benefits and services to their advantage and protect their CDL. Plus, hear from Lysa Bockoven and Chelsea Pieczko from Decker Truck Line as they share their first-person experience working with multiple legal providers. If y...

Financing your day to day operations is one of, if not the most important decision when striking out on your own. Often it means using a factoring service and quick pay options. If this is the road you take, then it's important to have the info to make the right decisions. Marius Slivasan, CEO of eCapital, speaks with Executive Editor and Oil Market Expert John Kingston of FreightWaves. Follow Fre...

The holidays: While most are relaxing and enjoying time with family and friends, you’re on high alert. What can you do to protect your loads from holiday spikes in cargo theft—and how can you set yourself up for a successful cargo claim? We’ll share the timely tips, tricks, and trends that can help you protect your loads and your business. Johnny McCord, CEO & Founder of Loadsure, is joined by Man...

On today’s episode, Dooner and The Dude are talking about the state of product packaging. In the quest for sustainability, is one of the most obvious areas of improvement being ignored? What sells and is sustainable? We’ll find out. Plus, moving big weird freight like lunar modules, KISS artwork, soda machines, classic cars and helicopters. They’re joined by special guests Chandler Magann, founder...

Financials are always key in any business. For small fleets and owner-operators the decision about buying or leasing equipment is always difficult. Join our fireside chat where our experts examine how to analyze the decision based on your needs. Kevin McCarthy, Vice President of Sales (West Region) at Ryder, joins FreightWaves Market Research Analyst Andrew Cox in this fireside chat. Follow Freigh...

Starting a business is a daunting challenge. This session will lean on the experience and lessons learned from trucker who successfully took the leap to becoming his own boss. Matt Silver, Vice President of Partnerships & Strategic Alliances at Trucker Tools, speaks with Larry Cothran, Owner Operator at Cothran Logistics. Follow FreightWaves on Apple Podcasts Follow FreightWaves on Spotify More Fr...

With independent contractor law AB 5 increasingly likely to be the law of the land in California, how trucking companies prepare for that day will be enormously important. Damon Ott, a shareholder in the Littler Mendelson law firm, speaks with editor at large John Kingston about what companies should be doing now to get ready for the day when AB 5 is implemented, whenever that might be. Follow Fre...

In the US truckload market, some 90 percent of capacity is provided by fleets of 20 trucks or less and independent owner-operators. They've been the industry's unheralded player, the shock absorber that helps smooth over the ups and downs of boom-and-bust times. Yet if Covid has revealed anything, it is how these operators have proved their worth - and deserve our respect - for stepping up to help...

Entrepreneurship is a challenge in any industry and starting your own trucking empire is not an easy task. Often it starts with that first truck. It's all about learning what you don't know you don't know. Paying attention to the fine details and numbers is the key though. Former Owner-Operator Wayne Cragg speaks with Owner of J and R Transfer LLC, Josue Ramos. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWa...

In today’s edition of Navigate B2B, host Steve Ferreira laments this may be the container shipping industries super bowl. The Reddit and meme worlds of the Ever Given of just yesterday are being replaced by a bigger and sinister monster threatening to make “Containergeddon” look like a King Kong v. Godzilla bloodbath. Like a house divided, Ocean freight vendors and beneficial cargo owners are at l...

On today’s episode, Dooner and The Dude are talking to Allegiant Logistics CEO Shay Dixon about building a minority woman-owned and led 3PL in Atlanta. Owner-operator LaKeesha Martin joins us to talk about self-defense for drivers and The H.E.R. Method: a personal protection guide for truck drivers. Trucker Nate Lewis of Doug Andrus Distributing plays it forward with an original country jam. Plus,...

On today's episode Matt speaks to Rami Karjian, CEO of Medically Home, about what the supply chain looks like for hospital-to-home programs, how the pandemic changed the health care industry’s perception of those programs and what the future of hospital care might look like. Follow Medically Necessary on Apple Podcasts Follow Medically Necessary on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more abo...

Ad tech vendors and people who collect “leads” on Zoom Info are in for a real treat soon--and by treat I mean the loss of data that helps to prove your software is worth it. But for the marketers and sales teams actually in the trenches doing the hard work, I’m breaking down why these new privacy doom-and-gloomers are paranoid for nothing. Also on the show are two rockstars: Nicole Glenn of Candor...

When a hurricane hits, how long does trucking get impacted?   That was the focus of a recent study at Omnitracs. Dr. Ashim Bose, the chief data and artificial intelligence officer at Omnitracs, led that study. He'll join Drilling Deep podcast host John Kingston to discuss what they found. Also on the podcast, Kingston talks about why a statistic coming out of the federal government this week signa...

Zach and Anthony bring on Dr. Dale and Zac Rogers to discuss the ongoing build up of upstream price increases, challenges around unemployment, and more! Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode, Jeremy Reymer, Founder & CEO of DriverReach, speaks with Rebecca Brewster, President & COO of the American Transportation Research Institute, about what data and research can do for the betterment of the trucking industry. Follow Taking The Hire Road on Apple Podcasts Follow Taking The Hire Road on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...

Seizures of drugs from tractor-trailers are a regular occurrence at the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada. Lawyer Su Ross, a partner with MSK in Los Angeles who specializes in compliance issues, says the drivers caught with these illicit loads are often unaware of what they were hauling. Ross talks with Long-Haul Crime Log co-host Nate Tabak during the FreightWaves Small Fleet and Owner-Operator...

Fleet owners face the near-impossible task of starting a business while competing with behemoths. You’re wearing multiple hats, trying to run your business, get customers, learn all of the new tech coming into the space, and now you’ve gotta build a website and market yourself too? It can seem daunting. But in this segment, Blythe Brumleve of Digital Dispatch is going to break down the must-have w...

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Kyle and Luke talk how carriers and owner operators can leverage data to better position their assets and seek out better opportunities. Follow #withSONAR on Apple Podcasts Follow #withSONAR on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lewie Pugh is a former behind-the-wheel trucker who now works for the Owner-Operator Independent Driver Association, the largest trade group representing owner operators. In this fireside chat with FreightWaves Editor at Large John Kingston, Pugh discusses a wide range of topics that OOIDA has its eye on, particularly where independent owner operators might be impacted by existing or potential reg...

Dooner and The Dude are live from FreightWaves Small fleet and owner operator summit with special guests: Tom Schmitt, CEO, Forward Air; Jay Gustafson, Senior Vice President of Marketplace Solutions, Echo; Jamie Hagen, Owner, Hell Bent Xpress; Mike Wells, SVP of Operations, DCLI; Ashwin Vasudevan, Director of Marketing, KBX Logistics   Subscribe to the WTT newsletter Apple Podcasts Spotify More Fr...

Forward Air predicts a bright outlook for 2021 and beyond. Chief People Officer Kyle Mitchin discusses how the Company’s rapid growth and investments are creating opportunities for its vast team of capacity and fleet partners. Hosted by FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Commercial Vehicle Training Association’s new president and CEO, Bailey Wood, discusses why it was important for him to serve the transportation industry, the steps the CVTA is taking to prepare states for the ELDT regulation coming in February and the importance of removing the interstate commerce restriction on 18 to 20 year old drivers. Bailey Wood, President and CEO of Commercial Vehicle T...