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Donny Gilbert - Director of Customer Solutions - FreightWaves Thomas Wasson - Enterprise Fleet Expert - FreightWaves Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grace Sharkey - SiriusXM Radio Host - FreightWaves - Lansing, MI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blythe Brumleve - CEO - Digital Dispatch - Jacksonville, FL Say you’re a marketing person and because of layoffs, you now have other duties on your plate including your marketing responsibilities.  What strategies do you keep and what duties do you leave behind when you can’t afford to get into a time suck? How much of what you decide to do will be production based (like creating blogs/posts/images) and how much will be customer based (like responding on social media or checking analytics to see what’s doing well and not so well)? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donny Gilbert - Director of Customer Solutions - FreightWaves Thomas Wasson - Enterprise Fleet Expert - FreightWaves Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Noi Mahoney - Borderlands Writer - FW - San Antonio, TX A lot of nearshoring activity has been focused on Mexico, is Canada missing out on bringing in more business in this movement? What disadvantages does Canada have to overcome if it wants to compete with Mexico for some of this business? Is this something that Canada could pull off or are the laws/economic numbers simply something they can’t overcome? Do you think they will try to market to nearshoring companies or look for other avenues of business development? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donny Gilbert - Director of Customer Solutions - FreightWaves Thomas Wasson - Enterprise Fleet Expert - FreightWaves Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Shipe - Business Development Manager - Circle Logistics - Fort Wayne, IN What kinds of positions are carriers finding themselves in when we’re not forecast to have much of a peak season this summer? What survival tactics would you look at employing to stay solvent through a very lean time? How much do not only relationships with shippers but also within the trucking community matter - it would seem like going at this alone could be a road leading to bankruptcy? Would you change strategies at all coming into the summer or stick with what you know and what you’ve done in the past? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donny Gilbert - Director of Customer Solutions - FreightWaves Thomas Wasson - Enterprise Fleet Expert - FreightWaves Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joanna Marsh - Staff Writer - FreightWaves - Falls Church, VA What will these cars do? Is this the first time we’ve seen autonomous rail cars used in the private/public sector? Are there any other suitors lining up to use autonomous rail cars? ALSO Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern have new sick leave deals signed. Nevada governor vetos bill restricting train length Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donny Gilbert - Director of Customer Solutions - FreightWaves Thomas Wasson - Enterprise Fleet Expert - FreightWaves Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices