FreightCasts

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; Mitch Luciano, president and CEO of TrailerBridge and FreightWaves’ Detroit bureau chief, Alan Adler; along with FreightWaves market experts Zach Strickland, Anthony Smith and Nick Austin on weather. This is a live interactive event, viewers are encou...

On this episode of stackd, powered by FreightWaves SONAR, hear Adam Robinson, VP of Product Marketing at FreightWaves and Eytan Buchman, Chief Marketing Officer of Freightos, discuss freight technology's role to proactively hedge risks and disruptions in the supply chain. The pair will discuss the recent port congestion and how the use of freight indices and analytics are aiding freight market par...

Allen Trevett and Lauren Mayher discuss what a logistics control tower is, when it can be helpful and benefits of this solution. The nervous system in your body controls everything you do. A 4PL control tower is the nervous system of your global supply chain. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This fireside chat between FreightWaves' John Kingston, Tim Sensenig, CEO for TMSforce and TMSfirst, and Rick Gonzalez, SVP, Global Operation at TMSforce, focuses on how 4PLs are different from 3PLs, and how customers can benefit with a 4PL. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

International supply chains can be opaque specifically to hide unethical behavior at the source. Justin Goldston, a professor of project and supply chain management at Penn State University explains how Blockchain can be used to ensure that supply chains do not incorporate unethical labor practices. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....

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 Dr. Katrina Burrus, author, keynote speaker, and CEO of Excellent Executive Coaching, LLC. We’ll be talking about managing those brilliant salespeople who happen to be world class jerks. Listen in t...

Benjamin Shattuck, a leading analyst of the U.S. upstream oil and gas industry reviews the wild ride that the market took in 2020 and into 2021, with prices plunging, drilling activity falling with it and then a late-year revival that took a lot of people by surprise. Companies are drilling again, but will it last? Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices....

On today’s episode, Dooner and The Dude are talking about ways that businesses have to adapt to rapidly changing market conditions. In an industry in which one wrong move in something as simple as packaging can send a company into the red, evolution, problem-solving and pivots are a pathway to survival. Get ahead of your competitors while they lean on the edge of extinction. Evolution isn’t just a...

Along with the pandemic came a drop in oil prices. Since the U.S. oil patch has long been heavily dependent on debt to keep operating, it meant that there was going to be a significant squeeze on companies, especially trucking companies that haul oil, equipment, frac sand and other products needed to service oil fields around Texas.  Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more abou...

Rani Puranik, co-owner and CFO of Worldwide Oilfield Machine talks about the importance of margins in supply chains, and how to gain the winning margins with the 5 C's of influence. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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...