FreightWaves LIVE: An Events Podcast

Danny Christner, CEO of John Christner Trucking, describes changes in food habits and how carriers can stay agile to meet customer expectations. Christner explains the difficulties of modifying food supply chains and his thoughts on if these habitual changes are here to stay. He speaks with FreightWaves Staff Writer Grace Sharkey.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maintaining the integrity of temperature-sensitive products, especially pharmaceuticals, during distribution requires refrigerated warehouses and trucks. Extending the cold chain to air adds another layer of complexity. Envirotainer was one of the early companies that years ago began providing insulated containers with cooling properties. Since then the technology has evolved. Envirotainer's Donald Harrison joins Air Cargo Editor Eric Kulisch to discuss the latest advances in refrigeration of air cargo containers and tracking in-transit temperature deviations, the COVID vaccines distribution and the logistics of leasing and repositioning containers around the world.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Brewer of CKE Restaurants reviews the changes and the pressures that e-commerce and the pandemic have put on the cold chain for restaurant operators. He speaks with FrieghtWaves Executive Editor and Oil Market Expert John Kingston.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The pandemic's influence on home delivery accelerated a permanent change that Wabash National Corp. saw years before COVID changed the way we eat, meet and work. The company began working on low-carbon solutions like equipping trailers with solar-power refrigeration units and is expanding use of its thermally efficient molded structural composite across all its trailer and last-mile body lines. Brent Yeagy, President and CEO of Wabash National, is joined by FreightWaves Detroit Bureau Chief Alan Adler in this fireside chat.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Moving temperature-sensitive foods takes a collaborative effort in technology, and SeaCube is supporting that effort with its container leasing strategy. Greogry Tuthill, Chief Commercial Officer at SeaCube Containers, is joined by FreightWaves Reporter Kaylee Nix in this fireside chat.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New cold chain capacity is expensive and complicated to fit into your network. It's not all about location either as you also have to think about location, power, and government partnerships. David Hickey, Managing Director of Hickey & Associates, speaks with FreightWaves Executive Publisher Kevin Hill.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cybercriminals are putting the cold chain in the crosshairs. Kurt George, a vice president with Property Damage Appraisers, chats with FreightWaves cybersecurity reporter Nate Tabak about why ransomware attacks are hitting cold storage facilities and what companies can do to protect themselves.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sr. Retail Analyst Andrew Cox is joined by Mark Nelson, CEO of Perishable Shipping Solutions to discuss how e-commerce is reshaping the cold chain. PSS provides fulfillment services to food brands, with a nice in perishable food items. PSS has a fulfillment solution to meet 85% of Americans with 2-day overnight shipping. Mark explains the challenges of meeting timetables, the cascading costs when they don't, and why online grocery is still in its very early innings.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The COVID-19 pandemic put a big spotlight on the cold chain's role in the pharmaceutical industry. Alex Guite, with the drug distributor World Courier, explains how the cold chain took on that challenge and what drug distributors have learned about the cold chain from the pandemic. He is joined by FreightWaves Journalist Matt Blois in this fireside chat.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Global Cold Chain Alliance represents 1,300 companies in over 85 countries that are involved in the cold chain industry. In this fireside chat, Lowell Randell, the group’s senior vice president for government and legal affairs, talks about regulations and policy issues affecting the industry, including new transportation data requirements, truck driver recruitment, and the government’s role in alleviating congestion in the supply chain. Lowell Randel, the Senior Vice President of Government and Legal Affairs in the Global Cold Chain Alliance, is joined by FreightWaves Chief Washington Correspondent John Gallagher.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices