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John and Kate celebrate our first anniversary show and we are brining on our biggest supporters to party with us!

John and Kate host the Safety and compliance guru behind the new consulting company, Wattsman Diesel House and the Sonic Safety podcast. Special Guest: Sam Watts

John and Kate look at big brokers using claims as a revenue stream, especially among the large 3-letter types.. Special Guest: Shane McKinney - Freight-Medic

As we work off the newly found weight of the holiday season, we are exploring the upcoming year and administration's legislative agenda for Transportation. We will explore all of the new initiatives and the legal implications that may come about. Special Guest: Henry (Hank) Seaton, Seaton & Husk L.P.

John and Kate will be exploring what both sides of the coin can do to vet each other responsibly with respect. Headliner Guest: Claudia Catlett - "Freight Fraud Femme Fatale" - Compliance & Claims Manager for General Transport

The gang enters the holidays looking back on highlights of 2024.

As we come off of the holiday stupor and back into the business of logistics and transportation, we are revisiting broker compliance procedures to see what needs to happen to ensure the good and safe carriers aren't boxed out. Grab some leftover pumpkin pie and settle in! Special Guests: Claudia Catlett - Fraud Fighter Extraordinaire, Compliance Manager at General Transportation Dale Prax - Unoffi...

OOIDA staff has provided significant feedback regarding the changes to Carrier 411's FreightGuard Reports program. OOIDA Executive Vice President, Lewie Pugh will be joining John and Kate to discuss what they think needs to happen with C411 to best support carriers and the industry as a whole.

The week, our panel will review and discuss the implications this "First of its kind" service giving carriers the ability to fire back at brokers for bad behavior. We will do a live demo on the air, and be taking questions from the audience.

Special Guest: Danielle Spinelli - MyCarrierPortal Also on the panel: Jennifer Chrestman - Tucker Albin and Associates Hunter Woodfin - Co-host: The Logistics Lounge Claudia Catlett - General Transportation Inc (Unconfirmed) Bill Robinson - VP, Wellington Companies (Unconfirmed) With this week's panel, John and Kate will debate the need for a shift in how Broker Compliance teams evaluate carriers....

John and Kate get the details of discussions and highlights from last week's BCS conference. The hosts of the Logistics Lounge will be on hand to share their experiences from this groundbreaking conference!

This week we are preparing for the winter. We are also still fighting fraud by way of bad dispatch services who don't understand the rules or are blatantly violating them.

This week we check in with Jeff Dickinson of RGTX Logistics Solutions and The Bodacious Cowboy podcast as he works to build networks to support disaster relief.

Carrier 411 has again expanded its list of FreightGuard offenses, giving brokers more reasons to inflict extreme economic hardship against innocent carriers.

A Small Brokers Struggle

Updates on out ongoing investigations and answering fan questions.

This week's guest is Drew Wilder of Vicarious Liability Risk Management LLC. We will be going over some fake COIs and discussing techniques on how to rapidly evaluate the viability of a carrier's coverage.

John and Kate dive into the ethics behind dispatching - What makes a proper dispatch service?

We are putting special focus on Women In Logistics this week. Among our guests is he winner of the 2023 OTR Solutions' Women In Logistics Leadership Award, Gretchen Long.

This week's special guests include Dale Prax of Freight Validate, and Meg Boaz of MyCarrierPortal. They will be talking about how their new integration will change the industry for the better! Watch out, scammers!

Our guest this week is Andrey Drotenko, President of Strategic Relations at Verified Carrier. We will be talking about their product and what it takes to get "Verified" in the trucking industry. We will have our usual panel discussing current fraud cases we are working on as well.

Kate and John take on Land Line's article on FMCSA's failure to deal with the double brokering problem. OOIDA has some good points, but some that don't hold any water.

John and Kate take on Broker Impersonation and Amazon loads.

John and Kate discuss the latest on fraud in the industry.

John and Kate take on cases of the week. We cover a couple freight guard cases for cautionary tales. Listen to a call between a broker and a scammer when the broker gives the scammer a fighting chance to do the right thing...