FreightWaves LIVE: An Events Podcast

There may not be a better time in the history of the U.S. trucking industry for companies to digitize their operations. Cloud-based technologies for transportation companies are rapidly driving down systems infrastructure price tags and are much easier for trucking companies to deploy.WatchApple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Once a lightly regarded alternative to a traditional initial public offering, the special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, is here to stay, says Vincent Cubbage, CEO of Tortoise Acquisition Corp. After marshaling the public debut of natural gas Class 8 truck driveline maker Hyliion Holdings, Cubbage is hunting again. His new SPAC is one of more than 170 so-called blank check companies sifting the startup landscape for candidates to financially enable the growth that supports public trading.WatchApple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hyliion Founder and CEO Thomas Healy delivers this keynote highlighting Hyliion's plans to bring forward electrified fleets.WatchApple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aaron Wood, the Trailer Management Lead at U.S. Xpress and Siamak Azmoudeh, VP PLM and Business Development at SkyBitz talk about the ROI achieved from metrics-driven fleet management.WatchApple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trinity Logistics President Sarah Ruffcorn responds the same way to practically every business challenge and opportunity: focus first on relationships. Whether completing a merger as Trinity did with Burris Logistics in 2019 or determining the best approach to the warp-speed changes in logistics technology, making sure all stakeholders are considered is her go-to philosophy for running a business.WatchApple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some transportation companies have leaned into the headwinds and supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic. ArcBest’s CEO Judy McReynolds and FreightWaves’ President George Abernathy discuss the challenges COVID-19 has presented and how ArcBest is using its customer-centric approach to thrive in the chaos.WatchApple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

J.B. Hunt has committed to a technology evolution, but that journey has taken time, investment, and the right mix of people and innovative thinking. President & CEO John Roberts III sat down with J.B. Hunt’s EVP & Chief Commercial Officer Shelley Simpson to talk about that transformation.WatchApple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The need for deep industry knowledge and a deeper network of contacts has become key to competing in the crowded logistics venture capital arena. Zach Barasz, director at G2VP, and Ty Findley, managing partner with Ironspring, discuss the advantages startup and later-stage companies find when working with sector-focused VC funds.FreightWaves for Start UpsApple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The freight business is both complicated and asset-heavy. To be successful, both tech startups and their VC backers need to know the freight business, its pain points and its limitations. Prologis Ventures’ Will O’Donnell speaks with Assembly Ventures’ Jessica Robinson on how the right combination of entrepreneurs and investors can create the most value in FreightTech.FreightWaves for Start UpsApple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Venture capitalists Kunal Mehta with Hearst Ventures and Earnest Sweat with GreatPoint Ventures share perspectives on the changing venture capital markets in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Mehta and Sweat, both with backgrounds in the supply chain sector, discuss their recent experience with startup founders in those markets as well as in healthcare and other verticals. They also provide an outlook on how venture funding will progress over the next year and within the decade.FreightWaves for Start UpsApple PodcastSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices