Hosted by Unknown Host · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 25 episodes
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The Freight Show brings stories of freight and logistics leaders who’ve shaped the industry. Through in-depth conversations, we explore their journeys, the challenges they’ve overcome, and the insights that have driven their success. Each episode uncovers the lessons, strategies, and wisdom of these freight leaders.
Unknown Host hosts The Freight Show, a business show with 25 episodes published.
For decades, brokerage has run on two assumptions: pay your reps on commission, and stay asset-light. Shannon Breen built FreightVana by breaking both. What happens when you strip commissions out of a brokerage entirely
or three years, asset-based carriers got beaten on price by capacity that hauled freight for half of what a real truck needed to break even. Now the cycle has turned, and the shippers who spent those years chasing the ch
Most freight founders start with a plan. Will Hopkins started by getting fired right before Christmas, then spent a year on the carrier side dispatching loads off truck stops before he was legally allowed to broker again
Starting a brokerage from scratch is hard. Starting one at 55, after a 30-year career running brokerage at Schneider, OHL, Redwood, and ITS Logistics, is a different kind of bet — and doing it 18 months before the market
Most freight M&A deals look great on paper—but execution is where they succeed or fall apart. So what actually matters when you’re integrating teams, systems, culture, and operations while the market is turning against y
How does a 3PL evolve from a collection of entrepreneurial fiefdoms competing against each other to a unified, technology-enabled powerhouse? And what does it actually take to build exceptional operations in an industry
Most freight brokerages are drowning in AI pilots that never make it to production. The gap between a working demo and a system processing thousands of loads per week is not technical — it is organizational. It comes dow
Freight doesn’t slow down at the dock. It slows down in the yard, at the gate, and in the messy handoff between facility ops and transportation. Chris has spent decades inside that “supply chain execution” layer, and he’
The freight market looks very different depending on which side of the phone you sit on. Will Kerr has lived both sides deeply, first as a carrier sales operator and brokerage founder who scaled Edge Logistics to $10M in
Freight companies that scale well usually share one thing in common: they obsess over the operating details that keep the business from breaking as headcount, customers, and complexity explode. Reliance Partners Presiden
If you sell into enterprise shippers, here’s the uncomfortable truth: your differentiator isn’t your pitch deck, your coverage story, or even your rate. It’s whether you can deliver predictable service and predictable ec
The freight market has trained most brokerages to chase volume, compete on price, and treat service lines like shiny add-ons. Evans Transportation took the opposite approach: build a durable business by leaning into comp
The real bottleneck in freight technology isn’t innovation — it’s adoption, misaligned incentives, and the absence of ownership over cultural change. Jeff Dangelo has lived every side of that problem: early at TQL, helpi
Freight tech hype cycles come and go, but what actually sticks inside brokerages, carrier ops, and shipper TMS screens? The “Steve Jobs of freight,” Bill Driegert, traces the real arc of innovation in trucking – from Ame
Building a $1B+ multimodal 3PL brokerage in a deregulated, brutally cyclical trucking market doesn’t happen by accident. Doug Waggoner, Chairman & CEO of Echo Global Logistics, walks through one of the most dramatic long
Freight market pulse + what’s next. Echo Global Logistics EVP Jay Gustafson breaks down why shippers are consolidating carrier networks, how continuous movement & drop-trailer programs create stability, and where AI + em
Ryan Schreiber—Chief Growth Officer at Metafora—joins The Freight Show to unpack why most freight-tech projects fail before they start, how to reframe “the problem” as an operational one, and why a broker’s goal should b
Freight analyst ≠ data analyst. In this deep dive, Chadd Olesen, co-founder & CEO of AVRL, explains why averages lie, how “composition scoring” beats lane-by-lane thinking, and what it really takes to make automated spot
Freight fraud is evolving — gone are the days of just stolen cargo. Today’s attacks are digital: email hijacks, phone spoofing, “sold MCs,” and identity theft. In this episode, Michael Caney, Chief Commercial Officer at
2016 Formula One World Champion Nico Rosberg joins The Freight Show to unpack the mindset, mechanics, and team dynamics behind working with / competing with legends like Lewis Hamilton - and how those lessons now power h
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The Freight Show is hosted by Unknown Host. The show is categorised under Business (management) and has published 25 episodes.
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