The Logistics of Logistics The Biggest Risk Facing Truck Drivers with Dan Slagen
Dan Slagen and Joe Lynch discuss the biggest risk facing truck drivers. Dan is the Chief Marketing Officer at Tomorrow.io, the world's weather and climate security platform, helping countries, businesses, and individuals manage their weather and climate security challenges.
About Dan SlagenDan Slagen is currently the Chief Marketing Officer at Tomorrow.io, and a 4-time start-up executive specializing in scaling global go-to-market functions from early stage to $100M+ in annual revenue. With experience in both private and public companies such as HubSpot and Wayfair, Dan has built teams across marketing, growth, sales, customer success, business development, and founded and sold a video technology startup of his own. A frequent speaker and advisor, Dan has spoken at more than 50 conferences and has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNBC, TechCrunch, and Bloomberg TV amongst others. Above all else, Dan believes in creativity, drive, and a people first mentality. Dan graduated from Endicott College with a degree in international business and marketing, and currently lives with his family in Boston, Massachusetts.
About Tomorrow.ioTomorrow.io is The World's Weather and Climate Security Platform, helping countries, businesses, and individuals manage their weather and climate security challenges. Fully customizable to any industry impacted by the weather, customers around the world including ITS ConGlobal, Uber, Delta, Ford, National Grid, and more use Tomorrow.io to dramatically improve operational efficiency. Tomorrow.io was built from the ground up to help teams prepare for the business impact of weather by automating decision-making and enabling climate adaptation at scale.
Key Takeaways: The Biggest Risk Facing Truck Drivers- Dan Slagen is the Chief Marketing Officer at Tomorrow.io, the world's weather and climate security platform, helping countries, businesses, and individuals manage their weather and climate security challenges.
- In the podcast interview, Dan Slagen and Joe Lynch discuss the biggest risk facing truck drivers.
- Weather or more accurately the lack of weather-related intelligence and alerts is the biggest risk for drivers.
- Approximately 20% of accidents are caused by weather events such as sleet, snow, heavy rain, fog, and high winds.
- Traditional weather services are not accurate enough or targeted enough to be useful for truck drivers who potentially drive through multiple weather systems and climates every day.
- The cost of weather-related accidents, delays, inventory damage, service failures, and hour of service problems for drivers are enormous, but there hasn't been a push to improve because nobody can control the weather.
- While we can't control the weather, we can do a better job of planning around the weather – avoiding all those weather-related problems.
- Tomorrow.io has developed a weather intelligence and climate security platform that is custom-built to help logistics and transportation companies reduce the impact of weather on their operations.
- Carriers using Tomorrow.io's weather and climate security platform are reducing weather related risk and improving the lives of truck drivers.
- Tomorrow.io customers make better decisions because they a have better weather intelligence. Better weather-related decisions reduce accidents, insurance costs, shipment delays, and makes the lives of drivers safer and easier.
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