FreightCasts

The trucking industry is grappling with sharp increases in insurance premium renewals due to large jury awards and some providers exiting the market. Listen to Robert Haley, VP of Transportation USI Insurance Services and Pierre Laguerre, founder and CEO of Fleeting, a marketplace providing vetted CDL drivers to fleets, discuss tips on risk mitigation for carriers. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More...

On today’s episode, Dooner and The Dude are talking to Robert Palm about Truckers Final Mile, Opendock dives in on the data behind the dock door, and we’ll step inside warehouse life with one worker who #PlaysItForward.  In news, how COVID changed freight demand for dog food, this week in rates, and why Walmart is using drones to deliver COVID tests.  Good news / news concerning parking tickets, t...

Special guest J Mintzmeyer leads us on a dive into a deeper understanding of the resurrection and transformation of container shipping stocks.   Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SPACs — special purpose acquisition corporations — have come a long way from being regarded as the “skunk at the garden party” to a welcome investment vehicle. John Larkin, an operating partner at Clarendon Capital, and Dan Hennessy, the chairman and CEO of Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp., discuss the recent popularity of SPACs, particularly in the electric vehicle and alternative fuel industri...

Zach Strickland and JP Hampstead discuss the current state of freight markets and how shippers, carriers, and intermodal providers are responding to capacity constraints.   Apple Podcasts Spotify Watch the LIVE video More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Weston LaBar is the CEO of the Harbor Trucking Association. That's the trade group that represents the drayage community in the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.  On this week's edition of Drilling Deep, LaBar joins host John Kingston to discuss the group's recent call for the Federal Maritime Administration to step in and suspend the drayage and demurrage charges that have soared as operations...

John Verdon joins Craig Fuller to talk about the future of self-driving trucks. As companies like Tesla perfect their autonomous vehicles, what does that mean for the trucking industry? Waymo hopes to provide a way forward for driverless trucks. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As e-commerce demand continues to skyrocket, logistics companies are looking for more efficient ways of delivering goods in cities. In this fireside chat, Peter Harris, international sustainability director for UPS, discusses bikes, smart grids and other innovations to manage congestion and reduce emissions in urban delivery. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about...

On today's Midday Market Update presented by Amazon Freight, Michael Vincent and Kevin Hill talk about the SONAR-powered data, issues and news that moves you. They’re joined by Tim Leonard, CEO and President, of Velocity Transportation Solutions; Steve Ferreira, Founder and CEO, Ocean Audit Inc. and FreightWaves market experts Andrew Cox, Anthony Smith, and Zach Strickland with Nick Austin on weat...

Digital tools and platforms are giving freight-industry participants the flexibility they need to deal with the COVID-heightened pace of change. Eric Rempel, chief innovation at Redwood Logistics, discusses the digitalization trend – and how his company’s product, RedwoodConnect, is faring in the “new normal.” Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices....

During a virtual fireside chat Friday as part of FreightWaves LIVE @HOME, Ryder System Inc.'s Dave Belter, vice president and general manager of transportation management, joined FreightWaves President George Abernathy for an “Inside Look: The Freight Market During the Upcoming Wildest Holiday Season.” “This industry was affected differently by the pandemic - when I look across the board at our vo...

On today’s episode, Dooner and Hill are talking all about how to provide value and land more deals by thinking like a consultant.  We’re joined by Jeff Booth, Head of Product, Opendock. Jeff Booth heads up Product for Opendock. In his role, he not only provides direct industry experience, but also guides design and development. Jeff previously worked with GlobalTranz, a leading third-party logisti...

FreightWaves will announce the winners of the 2021 FreightTech 25. A peer group of CEOs, industry leaders and freight investors selected the winning companies from the 2021 FreightTech 100. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony and Zach discuss the bottlenecks that continue to plague the maritime shipping industry, while breaking down the latest retail and industrial numbers.   Visit our sponsor Watch  Listen on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacques DeLarochellière, President and Co-founder of ISAAC Instruments, discusses the ways rate of digitization has increased during the pandemic in this Wavestalk. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Craig Fuller, CEO & Founder, FreightWaves and Jordan Graft, President TriumphPay discuss added brokers and partners.   Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a discussion entitled “How technology is making the job of being a truck driver safer and more enjoyable,” Jay Gustafson of Echo Global Logistics talks with Anthony Petitte of Truckpark about how tools from in-cab cameras to to ELDs have made driver’s life better...for the most part. But there have been drawbacks as well, and the two of them discuss that aspect of technology. Watch Apple Podcas...

Andrew and Seth analyze the prospects for a decade of dominance by the nation's "discount" retailers. We also give our preview to TGT, LOW, TJX and M, but not before discussing the Uber autonomous rumors, Walmart's pop-up ecommerce spaces, and the Target x Ulta partnership.   Watch the video Listen to more FreightWaves Podcasts Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Spotify Learn more about your...

Shawn Kerrigan, co-founder and COO of Plus, joined FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller on a special episode of “Fuller Speed Ahead” Thursday as part of FreightWaves LIVE @HOME, to discuss “The Path to Safe Deployment of Autonomous Trucks.” “We think that there is a tremendous potential in the autonomous vehicle space to improve safety, reduce costs, reduce CO2 emissions, and just drive overall economic...

On today's Midday Market Update presented by Amazon Freight, Michael Vincent and Kevin Hill talk about the SONAR-powered data, issues and news that moves you. They’re joined by Ken Sherman, President, IntelliTrans, LLC, John Gallagher, Chief Washington Correspondent, FreightWaves and FreightWaves market experts Andrew Cox, Anthony Smith, and Zach Strickland with Nick Austin on weather. This is a l...

KeepTruckin’s Smart Load Board is providing carriers with greater access to high-quality loads. The fleet management provider’s latest electronic logging device (ELD)-based freight-matching solution offers tailored load recommendations via smart-matching technology as well as exclusive access to thousands of loads through its marketplace.  Aman Shahi, staff product manager at KeepTruckin, discusse...

Securing the air cargo supply chain takes collaboration between industry and government because there are so many interconnected pieces. Find out how the Transportation Security Administration engages with industry players and some of its priorities for securing cargo on passenger aircraft and freighter in this fireside chat between John Beckius, the Executive Director, Air Cargo Division, Policy,...

American shippers are adjusting their inventories to meet increased at-home customer demand during and after COVID-19. Logistics services providers, such as Estes Forwarding Worldwide, are rapidly adapting their business models to tackle this changing dynamic. Andrew Cox hosts this roundtable discussion between Eric Goldapske, Director of Sales - Sporting Goods and Mass. with Johnson Health Tech,...

There may not be a better time in the history of the U.S. trucking industry for companies to digitize their operations. Cloud-based technologies for transportation companies are rapidly driving down systems infrastructure price tags and are much easier for trucking companies to deploy. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho...

On today’s episode, Dooner and The Dude are talking about Moderna’s new vaccine and why it could put less stress on cold chain, a charity that aims to bring deceased drivers home, what happened to Sony’s PS5 supply chain, will record e-commerce sales lead to record return costs, and a unique solution for bringing transparency to contract bidding season. Plus, 1st Gear talks about the business of m...