FreightCasts

While many companies are chasing rates to the bottom and capitalizing on the loose market, others are fortifying based on the upcoming surge. The choice by companies to manage their networks with either transactional or long term relationships, continues to be one of the most dynamic strategic decisions affecting the 3 core pillars of Service, Cost and CO2. Join L’Oreal Director of Transportation Services Andrew Banfield and FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller as they discuss the decision to manage business uniquely to position their products quite differently for their customers.Follow FreightWaves PodcastsFollow the Future of Supply Chain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now is the time to plan for the future. Learn how Supply Chain professionals plan ahead now for a market that will turn and not be caught reacting. Join Ben Richey, VP of Fleet and Logistics at SRS Distribution, and Geoff Lochausen, Chief Revenue Officer at FreightWaves, in this fireside chat.Follow FreightWaves PodcastsFollow the Future of Supply Chain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our Next Energy is on its way to providing 600 miles of range on a single charge for its lithium iron phosphate batteries. Founder and CEO Mujeeb Ajaz believes scaling the technology will be the long-sought battery breakthrough by the end of the decade.Follow the Truck Tech PodcastOther FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Today's episode of #WithSONAR, Luke Falasca and Tony Mulvey will discuss the muted 4th of July impact on the freight markets. Additionally, we will look at the spread between spot and contract rates and what it means for the freight markets as they continue to narrow.Follow the #WithSONAR PodcastOther FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is talking about contract negotiations between UPS and the Teamsters union collapsing. FreightWaves’ Rachel Premack explains what happens to more than 24 million packages if UPS workers go on strike. With some shippers trying to push for 180-day payment terms, we’ll also look at what’s happening in supply chain finance.Patriot Freight Group’s Andrew Salazar knows a thing or two about explosives, Conestoga trailers, heavy-haul and over-dimensional freight. We’ll find out what the next big thing in supersized freight is. FreightWaves’ Justin Martin weighs in on truckers versus RVers; Yellow bailouts; falsifying logs; trucking accidents; driverless delivery vehicles; flying cars and in-flight premonitions.  Watch on YouTubeVisit our sponsorSubscribe to the WTT newsletterApple PodcastsSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Spencer Frazier (J.B. Hunt), Dorothy Li (Convoy) and Raj Subbiah (Uber Freight), the three founding members of the Scheduling Standards Consortium, to discuss how scheduling standards can solve for fragmentation and create efficiencies in the supply chain. They will also expand on early program results, announce the latest companies that have joined the Consortium and share the blueprint for what comes next.Follow FreightWaves PodcastsFollow the Future of Supply Chain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A discussion with geopolitical forecaster and strategist George Friedman is hosted by FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller. Friedman founded Stratfor, a private intelligence firm, in 1996, and Geopolitical Futures in 2015.Follow FreightWaves PodcastsFollow the Future of Supply Chain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura Rainier of Gartner discusses what Scope 3 emissions are and how no matter where you are in the supply chain, they are likely to matter to you even if you don't think so now.Follow the Drilling Deep PodcastOther FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is ringing in the Fourth with the next generation of freight masterminds: his boys.  WARP’s Daniel Sokolovsky is making a bet on its FreightTech with Delivery Optimization Experience. It will be offering LTL shippers just a $1 per pallet fee if its technology isn’t able to optimize a shipper’s load based on cost, speed or efficiency. Drivers hate check calls, but TextLocate’s Ryan Rogers thinks he has a solution. We’ll find out why a text is almost always better than a phone call when talking to truckers.Carpenter Compliance’s Rob Carpenter knows a thing or two about great strap work. He’ll get our loads secured as we dive into proper load safety.Fleetworthy Solutions’ Michael Precia shares the importance of proper driver qualification management.Plus, convertible semi-trucks; the greatest American heroes; the inferno in Iowa; and how not to set off fireworks.Watch on YouTubeSubscribe to the WTT newsletterApple PodcastsSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Visibility and resiliency are frequently cited buzz words in supply chains. But how exactly can these terms apply to sustainable solutions in freight networks? On today’s show, Tyler Cole is joined by @Guro Rao, CEO of nuVizz, a network-based delivery & transportation orchestration SaaS platform company. They discuss ways in which traditional measures of reducing costs can be leveraged to reduce emissions, through network planning and optimization. But beyond this, the pair look forward at future opportunities for visibility to create new means of resiliency in a world with increased risk of extreme weather.Follow the Net-Zero Carbon PodcastOther FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices