FreightCasts Weekly Recap (5/4-5/10)

• Opening Keynote with Ron Klain, general counsel, Revolution, and former Ebola response coordinator, White House
  • Keynote with Ron Klain, general counsel, Revolution, and former Ebola response coordinator, White House, followed by a Q&A with Emily Szink, EVP of Content, FreightWaves – Sponsored by DDC FPO Solutions.

WHAT THE TRUCK?!?

• Trump says truckers are ‘price gouged,’ plus, murder hornets in my supply chain?
  • Dooner and The Dude talk about Trump’s comments on “price gouging,” murder hornets in the supply chain, and  they recap FreightWaves LIVE @HOME
  • Plus, special guest Bob Pishue, Transportation Analyst at Inrix.
  • And, Good News Bad News regarding USPS, PPE and more. Then we hear it from you in Comment Section Rodeo.
• Live on Day 1 from FreightWaves LIVE @HOME
  • Dooner and The Dude come to you live from THE virtual event to define our industry — FreightWaves LIVE @HOME.
  • They’re joined by Doug Schrier, vice president of Product and Innovation at Transflo, and Glenn Jones, group vice president of Product Strategy at Blume Global.
• Let’s meet @home
  • Dooner and The Dude get you hyped and ready for THE virtual conference to define the freight industry – FreightWaves LIVE @Home. They cover the speakers, talks, demos and awards that you experienced on May 5-7.
  • Plus, market experts Zach Strickland and Kevin Hill discuss what they’ll be up to during FreightWaves LIVE @HOME. 
  • And, they talk about inferior N95 masks infiltrating the medical supply chain, another ELD provider logs its final mile, and trucking academies see a surge in applicants.

Fuller Speed Ahead LIVE @HOME

• Innovations in the freight market
  • FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller speaks with Carrier Direct CEO Peter Rentschler about innovations in the freight market.

Put That Coffee Down

• Driving sales by networking at virtual conferences
  • Dooner and Hill talk about driving sales by networking at virtual conferences — and they do it in the most immersive way possible — at FreightWaves LIVE @HOME, THE virtual conference in freight.
  • They are joined by special guest George Abernathy, president of FreightWaves.
  • Plus, listener feedback, advice and community building!

Great Quarter, Guys 

• How has COVID-19 changed the freight tech landscape?
  • Ben Gordon, founder of Cambridge Capital and logistics investment expert, join for a special FreightWaves LIVE @HOME episode, discussing the immediate future of freight tech investment. We cover how the investment landscape is changing in 2020 and what technology looks most promising. 
  • And a special thanks to CarrierDirect for its research contributions.

FreightWaves Insiders

• Critical focus for uncertain conditions with TriumphPay’s Melissa Forman and Mitch Hixon 
  • Critical focus for uncertain conditions
    • Melissa Forman, senior vice president and chief operating officer at TriumphPay, on protecting carriers’ bottom lines and truckers on the front lines.
  • Fast pay for rapidly changing times
    • Mitch Hixon, vice president of Business Development at TriumphPay, has seen our industry’s biggest changes and challenges.

FreightWaves Morning Minute

• Monday-Friday
  • The fastest minute in freight.
  • The top headlines from FreightWaves.com every weekday morning. Available on FreightWaves.com/podcasts, your favorite podcasts player and Alexa by adding the skill “FreightWaves.”