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Drilling Deep: Making Sure 'Cool Chain' Works In Vaccine Distribution
Thursday, December 17, 2020 - 3:42pm | 280Read More...Keeping the vaccine supply chain cold is of paramount importance, and the head of the association of companies involved in that effort joins FreightWaves on the Drilling Deep podcast. Host John Kingston and FreightWaves Senior Editor Eric Kulisch sit down with Nicola Caristo, the airline partner...
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Spotify Sees Internal Strife Over Joe Rogan's Controversial Podcast Guests: WSJ
Sunday, November 1, 2020 - 10:46pm | 516Read More...Employees of Spotify Technologies S.A. (NYSE: SPOT) have flagged the audio streamer’s top show, hosted by Joe Rogan, for review by moderators over comments on masks and the polio vaccine, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. What Happened: Discontent among employees has been brewing after...
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FreightWaves CEO Interviewed On "The Business Of Content" Podcast
Monday, October 19, 2020 - 12:09pm | 1861Read More...The global logistics industry generates between $8 and $12 trillion annually according to numerous estimates. In 2016, Craig Fuller, the founder and CEO of FreightWaves, believed the industry represented a massive opportunity and in 2017 he launched the company. Recently interviewed by veteran...
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Drilling Deep: Trucking Market 'On Fire'; Diesel Market Barely Notices Laura
Thursday, August 27, 2020 - 5:06pm | 294Read More...Amit Mehrotra, the chief transportation analyst at Deutsche Bank, was on numerous analyst calls during the recently completed earnings season. He heard CEOs repeatedly report the same scenario: April was terrible, May was better, and the improvement continued into June and July. But now Mehrotra...
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Freightonomics: How Long Will The Bull Run?
Thursday, August 20, 2020 - 4:15pm | 60Read More...Joined by special guest Zac Rogers, Anthony and Zach discuss the current freight market's propensity to overachieve over the past few months and explore reasons why that will persist or crumble.
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Drilling Deep: The US Postal Service At A Crossroads
Thursday, August 13, 2020 - 2:57pm | 270Read More...The untenable situation at the U.S. Postal Service is coming to a possible breaking point. It is carrying a significant amount of e-commerce traffic but other competitors want that business. It continues to lose money and has an enormous pension burden that no other entity in America has. It...
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Drilling Deep: Loan Forgiveness Is The Next Big Step As PPP Moves Toward Its Completion
Thursday, August 6, 2020 - 3:48pm | 190Read More...The last day to apply for funding under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is Saturday, August 8. But that's when things will get busy for people like Michael Rofman. He's a partner and leader of the New Jersey Transportation & Logistics practice at the national accounting firm of Mazars...
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Freightonomics: Over The Hump? (With Video)
Friday, July 31, 2020 - 10:03am | 98Read More...Zach and Anthony go over surprising trends that are popping up going into the second half of 2020, and the headwinds facing the economy. Apple PodcastSpotifySticherWatch the video
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Drilling Deep: What Invoices Are Telling Us About The Strength Of The Freight Market
Thursday, July 30, 2020 - 3:59pm | 273Read More...Whenever there's a transaction in the supply chain, there's an invoice. And a lot of those invoices get processed by US Bank, which has long had a large amount of business in the trucking sector. The bank puts together a quarterly summary known as the U.S. Bank's Freight Payment Index, and it's a...
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Drilling Deep: The first in-person industry meeting of the COVID era
Thursday, July 16, 2020 - 4:52pm | 175Read More...There were fewer people than usual, as well as some canceled receptions, but it looks like a whole lot of effort resulted in a successful in-person truck industry gathering without anybody getting sick. Ed Crowell, the president and CEO of the Georgia Motor Trucking Association, joins Drilling...
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Drilling Deep: Trucking Got Big Money From PPP; What Will Be The Impact?
Friday, July 10, 2020 - 4:02pm | 169Read More...With the release of the identities of the biggest recipients of money under the Paycheck Protection Program, reviewing all the names of those who got money and figuring out how this will impact the industry's operations is now the hot topic of discussion in trucking. On this week's Drilling Deep...
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Is It Time To Short Tesla, And Did Uber Overpay For Postmates?
Thursday, July 9, 2020 - 10:40am | 146Read More...Andrew and Kevin are joined by former GQG host and Senior Research Analyst, Seth Holm. The original three change the pace a bit and expand their normal "long/short" segment into a full-length episode. Topics covered include whether Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) can become the most valuable company in...
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Freightonomics: How Sustainable Are Current Trucking Volumes?
Thursday, July 2, 2020 - 1:21pm | 57Read More...Anthony and Zach discuss the booming freight market and reasons why it will or will not sustain into July as well as the implications for the new insurance bill and YRC bailout.
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This Entrepreneur Makes Clothes From Soiled Milk, Solving A Problem That Plagues Farmers
Sunday, June 28, 2020 - 8:56pm | 341Read More...Would you wear a t-shirt made from milk? You might soon enough. Two years ago, Robert Luo visited his uncle's dairy farm in China and was shocked to see buckets and buckets of sour and spoiled milk just sitting there. Luo’s uncle lamented how tons of food and money go to waste in his line...
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Drilling Deep: The LTL Model Adapts To The COVID-19 World
Thursday, June 25, 2020 - 2:40pm | 142Read More...The less-than-truckload (LTL) sector of the trucking sector is generally more stable than the truckload carriers it shares the road with. But that doesn't mean it has faced the pandemic without major upheaval. On this week's Drilling Deep podcast, host John Kingston speaks with Brian Thompson, the...














