FreightWaves LIVE: An Events Podcast

Aaron Wood, the Trailer Management Lead at U.S. Xpress and Siamak Azmoudeh, VP PLM and Business Development at SkyBitz talk about the ROI achieved from metrics-driven fleet management. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trinity Logistics President Sarah Ruffcorn responds the same way to practically every business challenge and opportunity: focus first on relationships. Whether completing a merger as Trinity did with Burris Logistics in 2019 or determining the best approach to the warp-speed changes in logistics technology, making sure all stakeholders are considered is her go-to philosophy for running a business....

Some transportation companies have leaned into the headwinds and supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic. ArcBest’s CEO Judy McReynolds and FreightWaves’ President George Abernathy discuss the challenges COVID-19 has presented and how ArcBest is using its customer-centric approach to thrive in the chaos. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choice...

J.B. Hunt has committed to a technology evolution, but that journey has taken time, investment, and the right mix of people and innovative thinking. President & CEO John Roberts III sat down with J.B. Hunt’s EVP & Chief Commercial Officer Shelley Simpson to talk about that transformation. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad...

The need for deep industry knowledge and a deeper network of contacts has become key to competing in the crowded logistics venture capital arena. Zach Barasz, director at G2VP, and Ty Findley, managing partner with Ironspring, discuss the advantages startup and later-stage companies find when working with sector-focused VC funds. FreightWaves for Start Ups Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves P...

The freight business is both complicated and asset-heavy. To be successful, both tech startups and their VC backers need to know the freight business, its pain points and its limitations. Prologis Ventures’ Will O’Donnell speaks with Assembly Ventures’ Jessica Robinson on how the right combination of entrepreneurs and investors can create the most value in FreightTech. FreightWaves for Start Ups A...

Venture capitalists Kunal Mehta with Hearst Ventures and Earnest Sweat with GreatPoint Ventures share perspectives on the changing venture capital markets in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Mehta and Sweat, both with backgrounds in the supply chain sector, discuss their recent experience with startup founders in those markets as well as in healthcare and other verticals. They also provide an ou...

FreightTech entrepreneur Kathryn Schifferle, the founder of Work Truck Solutions and Comvoy, shared with FreightWaves President George Abernathy her journey navigating the venture capital world during the virtual FreightTech Venture Summit. FreightWaves for Start Ups Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

George Abernathy, President of FreightWaves talks to Karen Jones, the Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer and Head of New Product Development at Ryder System on how funding logistics startups helps Ryder System gain tech insights. FreightWaves for Start Ups Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leaf Logistics CEO and Co-founder Anshu Prasad talks with Kinetic Co-founder Ryan Schrieber about figuring out whether to go VC or “bootstrap” in an industry that is “serious” but with some tough issues to overcome. FreightWaves for Start Ups Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shipwell has succeeded in securing three rounds of investment since its start in 2016. The millions of dollars have allowed the company to rapidly grow its business into an industry-recognized freight transportation management platform. However, as company CEO Greg Price said to Dynamo partner Ted Ailing, come to the venture capital table with your "A" game. FreightWaves for Start Ups Apple Podcas...

FreightWaves Chief Financial Officer Spencer Piland chats with Kevin Diestel, managing director of venture capital fund Sapphire Ventures, to discuss the many opportunities available for venture capitalists wanting to be involved in freight tech. The multi-trillion dollar freight sector is rich in revenue-generating opportunities for those wanting to support data-driven start-up companies, Diestel...

Justin Bailie, co-founder and chief strategy officer for Rose Rocket, shared the company's journey from seedling to full-blown transportation management system provider with Brian Aoaeh, co-founder and general partner of REFASHIOND Ventures, during the FreightTech Venture Summit. FreightWaves for Start Ups Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...

Ben Weinberg, the Managing Director at Susquehanna Growth Equity discusses with the Managing Director at DC Advisory US, David Dolan how the COVID-19 pandemic will accelerate a decade-long trend of supply chain efficiency advancements that have already drawn large sums of venture capital and private equity into the segment. FreightWaves for Start Ups Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcast...

Ike Co-founder and CEO Alden Woodrow talks to Fitzmark Great Plains Region President Charley Dehoney about the company’s unconventional approach to securing funding and bringing its product to market. FreightWaves for Start Ups Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As co-founder of AOL and now CEO and Chairman of Revolution LLC, Steve Case knows a few things about building successful startups. He believes there are great business ideas and innovative founders in all corners of the country, and is on the hunt to find them, in this Keynote chat with FreightWaves Founder and CEO Craig Fuller. FreightWaves for Start Ups Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Po...

Dooner and The Dude interview Ryder System's Vice President - Investor Relations, Corporate Strategy & Product Strategy Bob Brunn   FreightWaves for Start Ups Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dooner and The Dude interview Forager co-founder Matt Silver.    FreightWaves for Start Ups Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dooner and The Dude catch up with Eli Soler of Truckered-in at FreightTech Venture FreightWaves for Start Ups Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller talks to Dooner and The Dude about FreightWaves for startups at the FreightTech Venture  virtual event.   Watch FreightWaves for Start Ups Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s a recipe for trouble: COVID disruptions are pulling refrigerated containers away from food production areas. Twice this year, outbreaks stymied U.S. food shipments to China. Tariffs are still taking a bite out of ag sales. Trade tensions with China remain high. Trade negotiations with the EU are intensifying. And the presidential election could reset the entire equation in less than two weeks...

John Brewer, director of distribution and logistics for CKE Restaurants, has been in the food distribution business for close to two and a half decades, a span that included 9/11 among other natural and human-caused disasters. But the impact of COVID-19 on the supply chain was an entirely new experience for him, as refrigerated capacity tightened and reefer tender rejection rates shot to new heigh...

Building speculative space in traditional industrial warehousing has been a long-standing market segment, but it’s relatively new in the cold storage world and both real estate developers and design-build companies are positioning to take advantage. “I will tell you that the amount of interest from developers and other investors – even developers that were in something other than industrial real e...

The cold chain logistics industry is a tough environment in which success requires selecting the right equipment while keeping costs in line, according to industry professionals. “Of all the different manufacturers and transportation logistics companies and wholesale distributors that we work with, the cold chain is certainly one of the most challenging environments from an equipment standpoint,”...

As the temperature-controlled supply chain continues to call for greater transparency to ensure food quality and safety, Penske Logistics welcomed the opportunity to ensure its cold chain operations were the gold star in the industry. Penske Logistics’ Jeff Jackson, senior vice president, operations – dedicated contract carriage, shared his insight on how his company earned the first-of-its-kind c...