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Donny Gilbert - Director of Customer Solutions - FreightWaves Tony Mulvey - Senior Analyst - FreightWaves Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Norita Taylor - Director of Public Relations - OOIDA - Independence, MO “All kinds of studies show that when all traffic flows at the same speed, it’s much safer for everyone,” Lewie Pugh, executive vice president of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, told the highway subcommittee of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Wednesday. How do you feel the hearings went? Given that the FMCSA is proposing this, what do you think the effect will be? What other opportunities are you taking - if any - to voice opinions about speed limiters? ON THE OTHER HEARINGS TIA President Anne Reinke testified on the lack of enforcement the FMCSA has on stopping double brokers and other “bad actors” - what do you think about this and does it affect owner-operators as much as fleet carriers? David Fialkov, NATSO’s executive vice president of government affairs: “Our challenge in entering the electric vehicle charging market is that it remains unacceptably difficult to identify a viable business case for installing EV charging stations,” he said. “Our view is that these grant programs that are being developed should have a keener eye toward overcoming that challenge.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Noi Mahoney - Borderlands WRiter - FreightWaves - San Antonio, TX Unity SCM secures $8M Series A funding to expand supply chain solutions Arkansas startup Ox receives $12.6M in Series A funding Supply chain risk management firm Prewave raises $19M Pando raises $30M to improve logistics operations across supply chains Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Henry Byers - Head of Ocean Intelligence - FreightWaves - Chattanooga, TN Greg Miller - Senior Writer - FreightWaves - New York, NY Bill Priestley - Producer - FreightWaves NOW Before we get to Greg’s latest article, how do things look out on the open seas? Henry, what do you make of this little uptick in Greg’s article - is it just a blip or could it be signs of things starting to get better? Greg: We talked Monday about the economics of this freight recession and Anthony said “the bad decisions have already been made.” It seems like the ocean carriers could still make some mistakes - what’s your sense about how people are making decisions? Henry: Same question Greg how much of your analysis of what’s happening out there looks consistent with what Henry wrote about last week? Henry, last time you were on, we talked about what carriers needed to do to be ready for this - what do ocean carriers need to be able to do in order to try and get through this without losing too much? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blythe Brumleve - CEO - Digital Dispatch - Jacksonville, FL Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Grace Sharkey - Point of Sale Community - FreightWaves - Lansing, MI What’s the newest trend in AI in retail? As AI gets involved more in retail, where is that industry as a whole going? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donny Gilbert - Director of Customer Solutions - FreightWaves Tony Mulvey - Senior Analyst - FreightWaves Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices