FreightWaves LIVE: An Events Podcast

Dooner and Michael Vincent break down the 3PL Summit live from the main desk. Features their opening and closing sets.  FreightWaves virtual eventsApple PodcastsSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Celtic International President Doug Punzel looks back at the intermodal marketing company’s volumes in mid-June, he sees Celtic beating last year’s levels for the same week. Intermodal volume reported by the country’s major railroads, meanwhile, is slowly climbing out of the double-digit year-over-year decreases that hit the industry during the first quarter of the year. Both trends are reasons for Punzel to believe the intermodal market is in a relatively good position for the second half of 2020. “Forecasters are saying that for the balance of this year, intermodal won’t get back to last year’s levels, let alone 2018 levels,” Punzel told Mike Baudendistel, FreightWaves’ market expert for rail and intermodal, during a fireside chat at FreightWaves 3PL Summit FreightWaves virtual eventsWatchApple PodcastsSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FreightWaves 3PL Summit: Managing deal flows during a pandemic.Fireside chat with FreightWaves Chief Strategy Officer JT Engstrom and Jason Bass, managing director at Harris WilliamsFreightWaves virtual eventsWatchApple PodcastsSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Managing carrier quality and compliance requires a balance of software and personal relationships, logistics experts said during a fireside chat that took place during  FreightWaves’ 3PL Summit on Tuesday, July 21. “At the end of day no matter how sexy or trendy the tech is, we’re providing transportation as a service,” said Lorin Seeks, director of quality and compliance for Convoy, the Seattle-based digital fright network.   “Our  customers want to know that the network of trucks they are accessing are going to perform well and when Joe or Sue shows up at the dock, that the driver is going to be safe.” Seeks spoke with Alicia Ruiz, vice president of compliance and legal affairs for Johanson Transportation Service, a third-party logistics provider (3PL) headquartered in Fresno, California. The conversation between a tech-driven digital intermediary and a family-owned logistics company showcased the dualism at play in today’s trucking marketplace, as the industry must rely on two very different methods – personal relationships and cutting-edge digital solutions – to manage an increasingly complicated risk management environment. FreightWaves virtual eventsWatchApple PodcastsSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his fireside chat with FreightWaves President George Abernathy as part of the FreightWaves 3PL Summit,  Doug Clark, interim president of the Transportation Intermediaries Association, confronted the question that has dogged the brokerage industry for years: Where is its relevance when technology can displace so much of what it does now?FreightWaves virtual eventsWatchApple PodcastsSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kenny Lund, Allen Lund Company and FreightWaves' Andrew Cox discuss at the 3PL Summit.FreightWaves virtual eventsWatchApple PodcastsSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trinity Chief Financial Officer Doug Potvin with Trinity President Sarah Ruffcorn during the FreightWaves 3PL Summit.FreightWaves virtual eventsWatchApple PodcastsSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Craig Fuller, the founder and CEO of FreightWaves, and Zach Strickland, market analyst at FreightWaves, shared The Great Debate segment at the FreightWaves 3PL Summit. While Fuller came into the debate being bullish about the trucking market, Strickland took the other end, calling it a bearish market and that it was a bubble waiting to pop. FreightWaves virtual eventsWatchApple PodcastsSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bradley Jacobs, CEO of XPO Logistics, discusses diversity, automation, and COVID recovery. Topics include cultural inclusivity, warehouse automation, industry trends, and strategic approaches in the logistics sector. Jacobs also emphasizes the importance of integrity in business and admiration for competitors like Amazon and JB Hunt.

Metrics play a key role in monitoring the success of any sized brokerage. MoLo Solutions CEO Andrew Silver and Arrive Logistics CEO Matt Pyatt reflected on the metrics that mattered most as their companies transitioned throughout the growth process during the FreightWaves 3PL Summit on Tuesday, July 21. FreightWaves virtual eventsWatchApple PodcastsSpotifyMore FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices