Hosted by Andrew Silver · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 85 episodes
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The Freight Pod is a deep dive into the journeys of the transportation and logistics industry’s brightest minds and innovators. The show is hosted by Andrew Silver, former founder and CEO of MoLo Solutions, one of the fastest-growing freight brokerages in the industry. His guests will be CEOs, founders, executives, and leaders from some of the most successful freight brokerages, trucking companies, manufacturers, and technology companies that support this great industry. Andrew will interview his guests with a focus on their life and how they got to where they are today, unlocking the key ingredients that helped them develop into the leaders they are now. He will also bring to light the fascinating stories that helped mold and shape his experiences.
Andrew Silver hosts The Freight Pod, a business show with 85 episodes published.
“AI can negotiate freight rates” is one of those claims that sounds true until you sit on a real brokerage floor and watch what happens. I’m joined by Robby Nathan, founder of Load Delivered, CEO of Envoy AI, and a longt
A major freight market intelligence leader is leaving DAT for a brokerage and he’s explaining exactly why. Ken Adamo joins me and Peter Coratola to talk about what most people misunderstand about DAT, how brokers should
Freight buying has a dirty secret: most bids do a great job of finding the lowest number and a terrible job of finding the best outcome. When shippers reward price without measuring service, good carriers get punished, b
Freight is a physical business, but the decisions that make or break a carrier feel more digital every month. I sit down with Chris Ceausu, CEO of White Arrow, to unpack what it really takes to run a complex transportati
A 10‑day wait for a refrigerator became the spark for a smarter last mile. We sit down with OneRail CEO Bill Catania to unpack how a racing mindset—frugality, failure tolerance, and relentless iteration—translated into a
A carrier vanishes from the road, sells its MC, and reappears just long enough to “accept” a $3.8M server load. Sounds absurd—until you see how often the digital record diverges from real-world behavior. We sit down with
What if your sales motion created real partnerships instead of fragile price wins? That’s the thread we pull with Hans, CEO of Odyssey Logistics, as he maps a journey from Danish directness and early Maersk rotations to
Cash flow is oxygen, and too many teams are holding their breath waiting on portals, proofs, and “who handles this?” handoffs. We sit down with Tarek, a former TQL broker turned founder, to unpack the culture of persiste
What if your operations team started each day with every check call completed and only the real exceptions waiting? We sat down with Happy Robot co-founder Pablo Palafox to unpack how an AI workforce is changing the cade
A 23-year-old with a pager, a bag phone, and a point to prove—Chris O’Brien takes us from apologizing for not owning trucks in the early days of his C.H. Robinson career, to shaping one of the most influential commercial
What does it take to build a $220 million logistics company from scratch? Peter Coratola, CEO and founder of EASE Logistics, reveals the hard-earned wisdom behind his remarkable journey from unemployed college graduate t
How do you build a billion-dollar freight brokerage without a single dollar of outside capital? Sean McLeod, who joined Axle Logistics as employee #21 in 2016, gives us a rare glimpse into one of the fastest-growing and
Andrew Leto shares his journey from Navy veteran to successful freight entrepreneur, revealing how he built Global Tranz from zero dollars into a half-billion-dollar business by spotting opportunities in the eBay shippin
This week, Andrew welcomes Hannah Testani, CEO of Intelligent Audit. Hannah dreamed of becoming CEO of Lehman Brothers, so she studied finance at Carnegie Mellon and got a job at Goldman Sachs in 2008, just as the financ
This week, Andrew has a candid conversation with Jett McCandless, CEO and founder of project44, about his freight journey, from making $12 an hour at Roadway Express to building a global supply chain network that powers
This week, Andrew sits down with Harish Abbott, CEO and cofounder of Augment, the AI teammate for logistics. Harish says, “Logistics is broken,” and in this episode, he goes deep into just how broken, talking about the i
This week, Andrew is joined by Sean Henry, CEO and founder of Stord, a major player in omnichannel fulfillment and supply chain technology. In this episode, Sean shares his incredible entrepreneurial journey, which start
Andrew welcomes Clay Curran, CEO and cofounder of FreshX, a young company tackling the tricky reefer LTL space. Clay shares his entrepreneurial journey, marked by a willingness to pivot that has shaped both his personal
This week, The Freight Pod flips the mic as host and former MoLo Solutions CEO Andrew Silver becomes the guest. Hosted by colleague and friend Derek Zetlin, this candid conversation dives deep into Andrew’s journey throu
In this episode, Andrew welcomes Matt O’Mara, CEO and founder of Whimsy Intermodal and Whimsy Trucking. Matt’s journey into the transportation industry began in 1994 when he worked as an owner-operator for a trucking com
Ken Adamo
GM for Shipper & Chief of Analytics · DAT Freight & Analytics
1 appearance on this show
Ryan Joyce
CEO & Co-Founder · GenLogs
1 appearance on this show
Chris O'Brien
Director · New York State Sheriffs' Institute
1 appearance on this show
Chris O'Brien
Products and Services director · Senator Margaret Chase Smith Library
1 appearance on this show
Sean Henry
co-founder and CEO · Nashville Predators
1 appearance on this show
Matt Silver
Doctor of Physical Therapy, Performance Coach, Author of Built to Run · California Association of Code Enforcement Officers
1 appearance on this show
Justin Sherlock
co-founder and CEO · ND Soybean Growers Association
1 appearance on this show
Krenar Komoni
CEO & Founder · Tive
1 appearance on this show
Paul Singer
CEO & Cofounder · Kelley Drye
1 appearance on this show
Cole Stevens
trucking executive, candidate for Oklahoma House District 51 · Stevens Trucking
1 appearance on this show
David Bell
former WHO physician, leader of REPPARE Project at University of Leeds · Idea Farm Ventures
1 appearance on this show
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