FreightWaves LIVE: An Events Podcast

The holidays: While most are relaxing and enjoying time with family and friends, you’re on high alert. What can you do to protect your loads from holiday spikes in cargo theft—and how can you set yourself up for a successful cargo claim? We’ll share the timely tips, tricks, and trends that can help you protect your loads and your business. Johnny McCord, CEO & Foudner of Loadsure, is joined by Managing Director of Innovative Logistics Group, Adam Wingfield.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Financials are always key in any business. For small fleets and owner-operators the decision about buying or leasing equipment is always difficult. Join our fireside chat where our experts examine how to analyze the decision based on your needs. Kevin McCarthy, Vice President of Sales (West Region) at Ryder, joins FreightWaves Market Research Analyst Andrew Cox in this fireside chat.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Starting a business is a daunting challenge. This session will lean on the experience and lessons learned from trucker who successfully took the leap to becoming his own boss. Matt Silver, Vice President of Partnerships & Strategic Alliances at Trucker Tools, speaks with Larry Cothran, Owner Operator at Cothran Logistics.Follow FreightWaves on Apple PodcastsFollow FreightWaves on SpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With independent contractor law AB 5 increasingly likely to be the law of the land in California, how trucking companies prepare for that day will be enormously important. Damon Ott, a shareholder in the Littler Mendelson law firm, speaks with editor at large John Kingston about what companies should be doing now to get ready for the day when AB 5 is implemented, whenever that might be.Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the US truckload market, some 90 percent of capacity is provided by fleets of 20 trucks or less and independent owner-operators. They've been the industry's unheralded player, the shock absorber that helps smooth over the ups and downs of boom-and-bust times. Yet if Covid has revealed anything, it is how these operators have proved their worth - and deserve our respect - for stepping up to help keep freight moving in an unprecedented capacity crunch. Schneider talks about the key role these industry stalwarts play for their network and customers. Ben Schuchart, Vice President of Operations at Schneider, is joined by CEO and Founder of Trucker Tools, Prasad Gollapalli in this fireside chat.Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Entrepreneurship is a challenge in any industry and starting your own trucking empire is not an easy task. Often it starts with that first truck. It's all about learning what you don't know you don't know. Paying attention to the fine details and numbers is the key though. Former Owner-Operator Wayne Cragg speaks with Owner of J and R Transfer LLC, Josue Ramos.Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lewie Pugh is a former behind-the-wheel trucker who now works for the Owner-Operator Independent Driver Association, the largest trade group representing owner operators. In this fireside chat with FreightWaves Editor at Large John Kingston, Pugh discusses a wide range of topics that OOIDA has its eye on, particularly where independent owner operators might be impacted by existing or potential regulations that come out of the Biden administration. Among them: OOIDA's long-time dismissal of the whole concept of a "driver shortage."Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Commercial Vehicle Training Association’s new president and CEO, Bailey Wood, discusses why it was important for him to serve the transportation industry, the steps the CVTA is taking to prepare states for the ELDT regulation coming in February and the importance of removing the interstate commerce restriction on 18 to 20 year old drivers. Bailey Wood, President and CEO of Commercial Vehicle Training Association joins FreightWaves Staff Writer Grace Sharkey in this fireside chat. Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The owner operator conference is about the business of becoming an owner operator and growing into more than one truck. Being a driver and running your own operation is different. You need to have or create the attitude and skill sets of an entrepreneur. You are responsible for your destiny. Today, we'll be discussing the skills you need to survive and thrive in the business of trucking. Rob Estes, President of Estes Express Lines, speaks with President of FreightWaves George AbernathyApple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A deep dive into nuclear verdicts, trucking accidents, and rising insurance rates in the transportation industry. Vice President of Sales at Reliance Partners, Jessie Merrit, is joined by Chief Sales Officer at Reliance Partners, Brandon Richards to discuss this topic.Apple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices