FreightCasts

Mark Duchesne brought diverse manufacturing experience to Nikola Corp., having helped build a plant for Toyota in China and make startup car building decisions at Tesla Inc. He is applying the best of both to Nikola as it builds its electric truck plant in the Arizona desert. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Choosing a mode of transportation for freight is often difficult. John Godfrey and FreightWaves’ Kevin Hill explore how to choose a shipping mode in different situations, including cross-border transportation.  Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the companies leading the development of autonomous technology, and the first in the use of it for platooning, discusses the pace of adoption of that technology on the open roads. Locomation comes out of the robotics research efforts at Carnegie Mellon and is based in Pittsburgh. Its first target is to allow a company to use its technology for a convoy of vehicles, starting with a second ve...

The rush to get more electric trucks to market sooner creates supply chain challenges in two areas: battery components and charging infrastructure. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daimler Trucks North America relies on e-commerce, its dealerships, parts distribution centers and analytics to get truck parts to the right place as quickly as possible. Richard Simons oversees all of it, and he talks with Alan Adler about the lessons learned in moving truck parts in the middle of a global pandemic. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices...

Providing vehicles with a secure ID via blockchain opens up enormous potential as market participants come together under shared standards. MOBI has created “digital twins” for vehicles, incorporating all of the information on the vehicles as they leave the factory, as well as everything in vehicles’ lives after they leave the factory. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more ab...

This fireside chat focuses on how the automotive supply chain utilizing the internal combustion engine is now changing with electric and autonomous vehicles. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FreightWaves Executive Publisher Kevin Hill and Daniel Burrows look at fuel efficiency in trucking, changes in the automotive supply chain in a post-COVID world and the need for in-person collaboration to properly construct supply chains. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode, Dooner and The Dude are talking about Virgin Hyperloop and the company’s vision for both passengers and cargo. Plus, trucking TikTok superstar Chace Barber talks hauling logs and posting vlogs. Dispatch 77 owner Gregory Paterek shares his comeback story.  Plus, Workhorse lawyers up in mail truck contract dispute with Postal Service; Project44 reels in Ocean Insights in ‘largest...

Going beyond buzzwords, Rak-Joon Choi, an American Tire Distributors vice president, talks with FreightWaves’ Clay Katzman about how blockchain technology can bring more efficiency and transparency to supply chains through data sharing.  Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hyzon Motors, a carveout of Singapore-based Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies, took over General Motors’ former fuel cell labs near Rochester, New York, to help North American and European markets catch up with China and other Asian nations in the use of hydrogen fuel cells for commercial vehicles. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...

Romeo Power Technology recently completed a business combination with RMG Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company. Romeo is now a public company with $545 million in contracts for heavy-duty truck battery packs. Investors include Republic Services and Tier 1 supplier BorgWarner.  Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

In today’s show Steve discusses some of his interviews from Maritime Supply Chain Week and the niche takeaways that viewers might focus on to enhance their companies ocean freight programs now and during 2021. With contracting coming at us hard and fast do we assume a “brace” and “hard landing”, lose/lose proposition or do we deftly use and network to intelligent partnerships and opportunities tha...

On this week's edition of Drilling Deep, the podcast is joined by Ben Stanley of the IBM Institute for Business Value. That institute recently completed an update on its ongoing five-year look at the future of trucking. It’s called Trucking 2030. He will be sharing his long-term perspectives.   Host John Kingston also will be talking about some numbers in the diesel market that had not been seen f...

The American automotive industry will benefit from an extraordinary conference of technological advancements that will elevate customer relationships and revenue streams to levels that would have been unimaginable five years ago, says Ken Washington, CTO at Ford Motor Company. Listen in as Craig Fuller discusses with Washington about technology's impact, and what the future hold for the automotive...

Greg Tuthill, chief commercial officer of SeaCube Containers, sits down with FreightWaves Executive Publisher Kevin Hill. The market for refrigerated shipping containers has held up during the pandemic. Beyond COVID, Tuthill explains what will drive demand for reefer containers going forward, including the need for year-round fresh produce and fish, and cold storage for vaccines. Watch Apple Podca...

On today’s episode, Kevin and guest co-host Nicole Glenn, Founder and CEO of Candor Expedite discuss how salespeople should differentiate themselves and their products to close more deals.  We welcome Lee Salz, the best selling author of Sales Differentiation. Lee will break down how differentiation isn’t all about what you sell, but how you sell.  Plus, listener feedback, advice, and community bu...

Over the next 25 years, the world’s population will grow at a much faster rate than the arable land that’s needed to help feed it. Utilizing technology to optimize the value of global grain harvests will be crucial to eliminating $71 billion of annual global grain waste and ensuring the world has enough to eat. A combination of the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and predictive analyti...

Midday Market Update: Mitigating the impacts of port congestion and the red hot air cargo market On today's Midday Market Update Michael Vincent and Kevin Hill talk about the SONAR-powered data, issues and news that moves you. They’re joined by; Eric Kulisch, FreightWaves’ Air Cargo Markets Editor and Laurence Alvarado, co-founder and CEO of WARECAP; along with FreightWaves market experts Zach Str...

The COVID-19 pandemic may have provided the much-needed impetus for retailers, executives and brokers to engage in more collaboration and ensure products get to end consumers efficiently. The many benefits that come from collaborating through technological platforms should encourage stakeholders to keep those tools in place even after the pandemic ends. FourKites’ Glenn Koepke discusses how and wh...

On this week's episode of Taking The Hire Road,  Jeremy Reymer, Founder & CEO of DriverReach, speaks with Leah Shaver, President of the National Transportation Institute, about the key factors for recruiting drivers.   Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Live from Global Supply Chain Week  Apple Podcasts Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Engstrom, Chief Strategy Officer at FreightWaves, chats with Jim Blaeser, Director at AlixPartners, about disruption in the supply chain.   Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With consumer demand at an all-time high and supply scarce, shippers need more dynamic, cost-effective tools and methods to carry out their transportation strategy. Digital freight offerings like rating APIs and integration platforms offer automated, plug-and-play logistical solutions that streamline processes enabling shippers to operate a higher level of efficiency at a fraction of the cost. Hea...

What should digital transformation really mean to leader’s in today’s business world, full of disruptions and shifts in priorities? This Fireside Chat discusses the top things to prepare for and the key steps to take in order to attain successful Digital Value Chain journeys, from regional supply chain improvements to global digital transformation programs. Hear from Gary Berger President, Berger...