FreightWaves LIVE: An Events Podcast

Garner Trucking President and CEO Sherri Brumbaugh talks with KSM Transport Advisors President David Roush during the FreightWaves Carrier Summit   Article FreightWaves virtual events Apple Podcasts Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Motor carriers agree that competition is fierce to find and hire qualified truck drivers. It often can be a race to see which company can successfully help applicants navigate the hiring process first. Kevin Hill, director of research at FreightWaves, discussed how to avoid legal HR pitfalls when recruiting drivers with David Robinson, a labor and employment law partner at the Scopelitis Law Firm,...

Chad Hendricks, president of Brand Outcomes said companies will say retention is really important, and have metrics they are tracking, but those KPIs, he said often “don’t match up to the actual health of the organization.” Hendricks and Max Farrell, CEO of Workhound, a feedback platform for frontline workers, participated in a fireside chat about driver turnover during FreightWaves’ Carrier Summi...

The worst part of any truck driver’s day is being stuck in dwell time, unexpectedly sitting in a warehouse parking lot for hours, waiting to drop off or pick up freight. In-transit stops and waiting for appointments to transport the next load compound that frustration. San Francisco-based technology provider Baton, recently co-founded by Stanford University graduates and entrepreneurs Andrew Berbe...

Carriers looking to attract more drivers may have to get creative with recruitment, as well as consider raising pay or adding bonuses, said Rob Hatchett, president of SeatMyTrucks. FreightWaves’ JT Engstrom talked with Hatchett Wednesday during the FreightWaves Carrier Summit.   Article FreightWaves virtual events Apple Podcasts Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices....

If a trucking company wants to attract drivers in their 20s and 30s, the company can’t just say how it offers all the bells and whistles: great equipment, great pay and a lot of home time. It has to show a prospective driver what makes working for that company truly special and unique, according to Sadie Church, vice president of marketing for CDLIFE who was joined by FreightWaves' Andrew Cox. “Th...

Reliance Partners’ Andrew Ladebauche and Brenda Wiser discuss how truckers can keep a lid on insurance premium increases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sandeep Kar, chief strategy officer at Fleet Complete, and Beto Dantas, chief technology officer at ConMet, discuss how to lessen downtime in the trucking industry during afireside chat Tuesday, Aug. 19, at the FreightWaves Carrier Summit. FreightWaves virtual events Apple Podcasts Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Brad Ball, Roadmaster Drivers School and Don Lefeve, Commercial Vehicle Training Association (CVTA) FreightWaves virtual events Apple Podcasts Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emily Szink, EVP of Media, FreightWaves talks with Phillip Stutts the Founder & CEO of Win Big Media in the Carrier Summit Keynote. FreightWaves virtual events Watch Apple Podcasts Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FreightWaves’ President George Abernathy and VP of Customer Success and Benchmarking Todd Davis had a virtual fireside chat during Tuesday’s 3PL Summit to discuss benchmarking services for brokers provided by FreightWaves Benchmarking. Under the program, carriers and now brokers submit their internal financial and operating data to FreightWaves to be compiled for benchmarking — or ranking — purpos...

La Toya Palmer, Managing Director of HR and Legal for FedEx Custom Critical talks with Ramona Hood, President & CEO of FedEx Custom Critical.   FreightWaves virtual events Apple Podcasts Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dooner and Michael Vincent break down the 3PL Summit live from the main desk. Features their opening and closing sets.    FreightWaves virtual events Apple Podcasts Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Celtic International President Doug Punzel looks back at the intermodal marketing company’s volumes in mid-June, he sees Celtic beating last year’s levels for the same week. Intermodal volume reported by the country’s major railroads, meanwhile, is slowly climbing out of the double-digit year-over-year decreases that hit the industry during the first quarter of the year.   Both trends are rea...

FreightWaves 3PL Summit: Managing deal flows during a pandemic. Fireside chat with FreightWaves Chief Strategy Officer JT Engstrom and Jason Bass, managing director at Harris Williams FreightWaves virtual events Watch Apple Podcasts Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Managing carrier quality and compliance requires a balance of software and personal relationships, logistics experts said during a fireside chat that took place during  FreightWaves’ 3PL Summit on Tuesday, July 21.   “At the end of day no matter how sexy or trendy the tech is, we’re providing transportation as a service,” said Lorin Seeks, director of quality and compliance for Convoy, the Seattle...

In his fireside chat with FreightWaves President George Abernathy as part of the FreightWaves 3PL Summit,  Doug Clark, interim president of the Transportation Intermediaries Association, confronted the question that has dogged the brokerage industry for years: Where is its relevance when technology can displace so much of what it does now? FreightWaves virtual events Watch Apple Podcasts Spotify M...

Kenny Lund, Allen Lund Company and FreightWaves' Andrew Cox discuss at the 3PL Summit. FreightWaves virtual events Watch Apple Podcasts Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trinity Chief Financial Officer Doug Potvin with Trinity President Sarah Ruffcorn during the FreightWaves 3PL Summit. FreightWaves virtual events Watch Apple Podcasts Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Craig Fuller, the founder and CEO of FreightWaves, and Zach Strickland, market analyst at FreightWaves, shared The Great Debate segment at the FreightWaves 3PL Summit. While Fuller came into the debate being bullish about the trucking market, Strickland took the other end, calling it a bearish market and that it was a bubble waiting to pop.  FreightWaves virtual events Watch Apple Podcasts Spotify...

Brad Jacobs, chairman and CEO of XPO Logistics, is committed to improving the diverse culture XPO is striving to build for its employees, but doing so requires listening to employees, he said during the keynote address of FreightWaves’ Virtual 3PL Summit on Tuesday morning. Jacobs was asked questions from a diverse group of industry leaders, including Craig Fuller, CEO of FreightWaves; Ben Gordon,...

Metrics play a key role in monitoring the success of any sized brokerage. MoLo Solutions CEO Andrew Silver and Arrive Logistics CEO Matt Pyatt reflected on the metrics that mattered most as their companies transitioned throughout the growth process during the FreightWaves 3PL Summit on Tuesday, July 21.   FreightWaves virtual events Watch Apple Podcasts Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn mor...

Heather Devine, Partner at Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLP and Rachel Premack, Transportation Reporter, Business Insider FreightWaves next vitual event 7/21/20 Apple Podcasts Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Darren Prokop, Professor of Logistics, University of Alaska Anchorage and Nate Tabak, Border and North America Correspondent, FreightWaves FreightWaves next vitual event 7/21/20 Apple Podcasts Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Larkin, Operating Partner, Clarendon Capital and JT Engstrom, Chief Strategy Officer, FreightWaves FreightWaves next vitual event 7/21/20 Apple Podcasts Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices