FreightWaves LIVE: An Events Podcast

The trucking industry is grappling with sharp increases in insurance premium renewals due to large jury awards and some providers exiting the market. Listen to Robert Haley, VP of Transportation USI Insurance Services and Pierre Laguerre, founder and CEO of Fleeting, a marketplace providing vetted CDL drivers to fleets, discuss tips on risk mitigation for carriers.WatchApple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SPACs — special purpose acquisition corporations — have come a long way from being regarded as the “skunk at the garden party” to a welcome investment vehicle. John Larkin, an operating partner at Clarendon Capital, and Dan Hennessy, the chairman and CEO of Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp., discuss the recent popularity of SPACs, particularly in the electric vehicle and alternative fuel industries.WatchApple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As e-commerce demand continues to skyrocket, logistics companies are looking for more efficient ways of delivering goods in cities. In this fireside chat, Peter Harris, international sustainability director for UPS, discusses bikes, smart grids and other innovations to manage congestion and reduce emissions in urban delivery.WatchApple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Digital tools and platforms are giving freight-industry participants the flexibility they need to deal with the COVID-heightened pace of change. Eric Rempel, chief innovation at Redwood Logistics, discusses the digitalization trend – and how his company’s product, RedwoodConnect, is faring in the “new normal.”WatchApple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During a virtual fireside chat Friday as part of FreightWaves LIVE @HOME, Ryder System Inc.'s Dave Belter, vice president and general manager of transportation management, joined FreightWaves President George Abernathy for an “Inside Look: The Freight Market During the Upcoming Wildest Holiday Season.” “This industry was affected differently by the pandemic - when I look across the board at our volumes, they are up to pre-pandemic levels, to 2018 levels.”WatchApple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FreightWaves will announce the winners of the 2021 FreightTech 25. A peer group of CEOs, industry leaders and freight investors selected the winning companies from the 2021 FreightTech 100.WatchApple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacques DeLarochellière, President and Co-founder of ISAAC Instruments, discusses the ways rate of digitization has increased during the pandemic in this Wavestalk.WatchApple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a discussion entitled “How technology is making the job of being a truck driver safer and more enjoyable,” Jay Gustafson of Echo Global Logistics talks with Anthony Petitte of Truckpark about how tools from in-cab cameras to to ELDs have made driver’s life better...for the most part. But there have been drawbacks as well, and the two of them discuss that aspect of technology.WatchApple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Securing the air cargo supply chain takes collaboration between industry and government because there are so many interconnected pieces. Find out how the Transportation Security Administration engages with industry players and some of its priorities for securing cargo on passenger aircraft and freighter in this fireside chat between John Beckius, the Executive Director, Air Cargo Division, Policy, Plans and Engagement for the Transportation Security Administration and Steve Alterman, the President of the Cargo Airline Association.WatchApple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

American shippers are adjusting their inventories to meet increased at-home customer demand during and after COVID-19. Logistics services providers, such as Estes Forwarding Worldwide, are rapidly adapting their business models to tackle this changing dynamic. Andrew Cox hosts this roundtable discussion between Eric Goldapske, Director of Sales - Sporting Goods and Mass. with Johnson Health Tech, Michael Campese, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing with Estes Marketing Worldwide, and Donna Kintop the Senior Vice President, Client Experience at DDC FPO.WatchApple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices