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FreightWaves LIVE: An Events Podcast

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Nov 26, 2024 • 31min

Fireside Chat: Flexport Trucking Continues to Look Forward

Bill Driegert from Flexport Trucking joins FreightWaves Craig Fuller on the main stage at F3 2024 to talk about coming expectations for the freight markets in the new year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Nov 26, 2024 • 28min

Fireside Chat: "I'm Going to Die in My Office At My Desk" - Cindy Lee

Running a family centric, successful brokerage is no easy task, but if you asked Cindy Lee, CEO of Lync Logistics in Chattanooga, TN, she would say its been the best thing she has done in her life. Lee is the definition of boss lady and in this fireside chat with FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller, she talks about life lessons and making her way to the top while keeping her goals simple: do the right thing, take care of your people, love what you do for work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Nov 26, 2024 • 28min

Fireside Chat: Unpacking Freight's Investment Cycles

Just like freight cycles ebb and flow investment activity has a similar cyclic nature. John Larkin, Strategic Advisor at Clarendon Capital, talks with Craig Fuller about how thought processes on capital investments have changed over the last year. They also look in to what a new president could do for the economy and if/when that will trickle down to the freight investment world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Nov 26, 2024 • 23min

Fireside Chat: Customer Value is a Product of Internal Commitments

Julie Van de Kamp sits down with Tim Guin from Hirschbach a the 2024 Future of Freight Festival. The two discuss how company culture and internal values can actually help drive value for the external customer, including though aligned Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Nov 26, 2024 • 46min

Keynote: David Parker on the Legacy of Covenant Transport

Trucking runs in the blood of Covenant Transport's CEO David Parker and the lifelong legacy has lead him to run an efficient carrier and brokerage right here in the heart of freight alley. Parker sits down with Craig Fuller to kick off the second day of the 2024 Future of Freight Festival with a keynote that highlights a commitment to family values and gratitude as the reason for Covenant's continued success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Nov 25, 2024 • 22min

Fireside Chat: Driving Marketing Results with Tech and Data

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Nov 25, 2024 • 36min

Fireside Chat: Nikola Corporation

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Nov 25, 2024 • 26min

Keynote: Courageous Collaboration Starts with a Handshake

As CEO of J.B. Hunt Transport Shelley Simpson leads one of America's largest legacy carriers. The journey from small trucking company to industry leader has not been an easy one, but as Simpson explains in her keynote address at the 2024 Future of Freight Festival it has been driven by a relentless commitment to collaboration. Simpson celebrated 30 years with J.B. Hunt recently and ascended to the CEO role after serving as President, CCO, CMO, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Nov 25, 2024 • 28min

Convoy co-founder reflects on digital brokerage’s rise and fall

Dan Lewis, co-founder and former CEO of Convoy Inc., discussed the rise and fall of the digital freight brokerage he helped create and the lessons he learned along the way on Tuesday at FreightWaves’ F3: Future of Freight Festival.Lewis, who spoke with FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller during the annual event in Chattanooga, Tennessee, reflected on past decisions while at the helm of Convoy, acknowledging both successes and failures in the company’s eight-year journey to innovate the freight brokerage industry.Lewis and another former Amazon executive, Grant Goodale, co-founded Convoy in 2015. In April 2022, Convoy was valued at $3.8 billion, but by October 2023, it was forced to shutter its core business operations.Asked by Fuller during the fireside chat about the company’s legacy, Lewis said he wants Convoy to be remembered for its ethos of innovation, disruption and pushing the brokerage industry forward through its software and technology platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Nov 25, 2024 • 50min

Keynote: Winning the Business Wars with David Brown

In the world of rivalries some names ring legendary.... FedEx vs UPS, FreightWaves vs DAT, Pizza Hut vs Dominos.... and exploring the complex relationships between business entities and consumer choices that drive the success or failure of a company is the quest of the Business Wars podcast hosted by David Brown. Brown opened up the 2024 Future of Freight Festival with a keynote with FreightWaves Founder & CEO Craig Fuller to explain how businesses thrive and survive in a competitive landscape and how evolution is the key to winning the war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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