Hosted by FreightWaves, Adam Wingfield · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 70 episodes
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Adam Wingfield's podcast, "The Long Haul," focuses on assisting small trucking businesses and independent contractors. The show features interviews with industry experts and successful owner-operators, offering advice and strategies for financial success. Its target audience is anyone in the trucking industry, from those just beginning to established fleet owners. The podcast aims to provide actionable insights and encouragement to help listeners improve their businesses. Ultimately, the podcast seeks to connect trucking professionals with opportunities for growth and profitability.
FreightWaves, Adam Wingfield hosts The Long Haul, a business show with 70 episodes published.
Factoring might be the most argued-about topic in small carrier Facebook groups. Half the comments say it saved their business. The other half say it nearly destroyed it. And everybody's got a story about a contract they
Thousands of people enter trucking every year looking for a better future. Many are chasing freedom. Some are trying to build wealth. Others are leaving careers they have spent decades building in hopes of creating somet
Military freight is one of the most misunderstood corners of trucking. Most owner-operators hear about Department of Defense freight and immediately assume: it’s impossible to access, only big fleets can get it, or the s
Most trucking companies don’t fail because freight disappears. They fail because cash flow breaks first. In this episode of The Long Haul Podcast, Adam sits down with Michael Bunton to discuss one of the most overlooked
Everybody wants somebody to blame. Brokers. ELDs. Immigration. Mega carriers. The government. The spot market. But what if the problems facing trucking today go much deeper than social media talking points? In this episo
Many small carriers think they have a driver problem. They don’t. They have a messaging problem… a positioning problem… and a clarity problem. In this episode of The Long Haul Podcast, Adam sits down with Elijah Cramer —
Everyone wants to own a truck. Very few understand what comes after. In this episode of The Long Haul Podcast, Adam sits down with Pamela Polyak — a third-generation transportation owner who took over her family’s asset-
Most small carriers believe they’re compliant. Until they’re not. And by the time they find out… it’s already too late. In this episode of The Long Haul Podcast, Adam sits down with Brandon Wiseman of Trucksafe & Childre
In this special on-location episode of The Long Haul, host Adam Wingfield takes listeners directly onto the floor of the 54th Annual Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS) in Louisville, Kentucky. Recorded from within the exhi
In this episode of The Long Haul, Adam Wingfield sits down with Jorge Rivera, a longtime truck driver and DACA recipient caught in the middle of a growing regulatory battle. As new rules around non-domiciled CDLs take ce
In this special edition of The Long Haul, live from the Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS) 2026, host Adam Wingfield sits down with Ilya, the founder of ICV Express, to discuss a masterclass in trucking resilience and unco
Every year thousands of drivers and trucking companies head to the Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS) in Louisville, Kentucky. And every year… most of them make the same mistake. They spend three days looking at custom tru
Cargo theft is evolving — and most small carriers aren’t prepared for it. In this episode of The Long Haul Podcast, Adam sits down with Jillian Kossman, Chief Operations Officer at IDScan.net, to break down one of the fa
Freight markets are sending mixed signals right now. Spot rates are ticking up. Tender rejection pockets are appearing across the country. Port volumes are surging in some areas. But underneath those numbers, the broader
Truckers are sold to 24/7 — by brokers, shippers, insurance companies, fuel programs, tech apps, dispatchers, and every “solution” in the industry. But here’s the truth most won’t say out loud: small carriers aren’t fail
After 35 years in transportation — from helping build Leonard’s Express into a $350M logistics powerhouse to leading the Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA) — Michael Riccio has seen this industry from every
Aftertreatment failures don’t usually show up as one big catastrophic bill — they show up as downtime, repeat derates, misdiagnosed parts, and decisions made under financial stress. In this episode of The Long Haul Podca
Broker transparency has become one of the most emotionally charged topics in trucking — and for good reason. Small carriers feel boxed out, brokers feel misunderstood, and the conversation often collapses into extremes i
Credit isn’t the problem in trucking—misunderstanding it is. In this episode of The Long Haul Podcast, I sit down with Gerri Detweiler, to break down how credit really works for owner-operators and small fleets. This isn
Small carriers already know why this market hurts — rates are tight, fuel moves fast, and freight isn’t forgiving mistakes. What most don’t fully understand is how small daily decisions quietly compound into big financia
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The Long Haul is hosted by FreightWaves, Adam Wingfield. The show is categorised under business (news) and has published 70 episodes.
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