Freightvine
128 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsHear the latest in freight transportation, supply chain and logistics from the Freightvine podcast.
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The Evolution of Trucking at U.S. Xpress—Before & After COVID-19 | Justin Harness
June 04, 2020 03:00 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBThe rapid growth of e-commerce and enabling technologies have transformed the trucking industry over the last two decades. Justin Harness (Chief Revenue Officer at U.S. Xpress) shares his front-row perspective in this episode. U.S. Xpress is on a mission to create a “frictionless order journey” for its customers, and this pursuit has served the company well during the COVID-19 pandemic. To wrap up the episode, Chris Caplice is joined by Inam Iyoob for the latest North American truckload mark...
COVID-19: How Bridgestone is Leveraging Private & Dedicated Fleets | Brad Blizzard
May 21, 2020 03:00 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBBrad Blizzard, head of logistics at Bridgestone Americas, explains how the company has creatively leveraged its private and dedicated fleets to navigate the current COVID-19 pandemic. The company’s portfolio management approach has yielded many advantages while network volumes have been down across most of their channels. Brad also shares his insights into the recovery path for the North American automotive industry, and discusses potential shifts in transportation and logistics to drive lon...
COVID-19: The Lasting Impact on Shipper/Carrier Relationships | Ron Lazo
May 07, 2020 03:00 - 32 minutes - 28.6 MBIn this episode, Ron Lazo (Vice President @ Manhattan Associates) joins host Chris Caplice to discuss which aspects of the COVID-19 era are most likely to stick — e.g., a distributed workforce, driver appreciation, real-time network balancing, and enterprise-wide visibility — and what the “new normal” means for both shippers and carriers. The former colleagues also discuss how the shipper/carrier relationship is evolving as well as the role of technology in providing much-needed visibility. ...
COVID-19: State of the Freight Market & Paths to Recovery | Chris Pickett
April 23, 2020 06:00 - 29 minutes - 27.7 MBIn this episode, Chris Pickett (Chief Strategy Officer @ Coyote Logistics) shares his insights on the COVID-19 pandemic and explains how it is playing out in the logistics service provider community. For most brokers, managing volatility isn’t new, but the frequency and severity of recent changes remains unprecedented. Chris also shares his take on the pending economic recovery and what makes this one different from the Great Recession of 2007-09. To wrap things up, Inam Iyoob joins Chris Ca...
COVID-19: State of the Freight Market & Paths to Recovery | Chris Pickett
April 23, 2020 03:00 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBIn this episode, Chris Pickett (Chief Strategy Officer @ Coyote Logistics) shares his insights on the COVID-19 pandemic and explains how it is playing out in the logistics service provider community. For most brokers, managing volatility isn’t new, but the frequency and severity of recent changes remains unprecedented. Chris also shares his take on the pending economic recovery and what makes this one different from the Great Recession of 2007-09. To wrap things up, Inam Iyoob joins Chris Ca...
Finding a Sustainable Balance for Freight Transportation | Alexis Bateman & Suzanne Greene
April 09, 2020 03:00 - 39 minutes - 34.5 MBThe 50th annual Earth Day celebration is quickly approaching on April 22! To celebrate this milestone, we sat down with Alexis Bateman and Suzanne Greene from MIT’s Sustainable Supply Chains initiative to discuss the importance of freight transportation in making a positive impact on sustainability as well as the current state of the transportation sector. From measuring your GHG footprint to creating some new and innovative carbon offset programs, the duo offers pragmatic advice for improvi...
Supply Chain Design: The Role of Transportation in Network Modeling | Steve Ellet
March 26, 2020 03:00 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBNow more than ever in light of global health crises and economic uncertainty, it is important to understand the resilience of your supply chain network. And network modeling is where it all begins. Supply chain design expert Steve Ellet (Sr. Vice President of Supply Chain Design at Chainalytics) joins host Chris Caplice to unpack some of the latest innovations in network modeling and the importance of “what-if” scenario planning and continuous modeling. Steve explains that transportation i...
Solving the Driver Shortage: Many causes, no one solution | Bob Costello
March 12, 2020 02:00 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBThe American Trucking Associations (ATA) estimated a record-high driver shortage of 60,800 at the end of 2018—almost exclusively in the over-the-road for-hire truckload segment. And forecasted it to increase to 160,000 by 2028. Bob Costello, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at ATA joins host Chris Caplice in this episode to break down their estimate, understand the root causes, and explore some possible solutions. Think: Attracting new drivers, enabling increased shipper productivit...
Freight Transportation & the Coronavirus | Yossi Sheffi
February 27, 2020 03:00 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBThis episode centers on the coronavirus (COVID-19) and how the outbreak which originated in Wuhan, China in December 2019 is impacting global freight transportation. Host Chris Caplice sits down with Yossi Sheffi, MIT professor and Chris’ boss at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, to discuss how the coronavirus differs from past crises and how the bullwhip effect will likely play out in this scenario. Prof. Sheffi also offers some advice to companies who are looking to manage the...
Reducing Driver Detention at The Home Depot | Ron Guzzi
February 13, 2020 07:00 - 30 minutes - 30.9 MBThe Home Depot is the world’s largest home improvement specialty retailer with more than 2,200 retail stores across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Each year The Home Depot spends around $2 Billion on domestic transportation services across dedicated fleets, truckload, intermodal, and less-than-truckload, making it one of the largest shippers in the U.S. Ron Guzzi (Sr. Manager, Carrier Relations & Sourcing at The Home Depot) has led the company’s domestic transportation sourcing and carrier ...
Reducing Driver Detention at The Home Depot | Ron Guzzi
February 13, 2020 03:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBThe Home Depot is the world’s largest home improvement specialty retailer with more than 2,200 retail stores across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Each year The Home Depot spends around $2 Billion on domestic transportation services across dedicated fleets, truckload, intermodal, and less-than-truckload, making it one of the largest shippers in the U.S. Ron Guzzi (Sr. Manager, Carrier Relations & Sourcing at The Home Depot) has led the company’s domestic transportation sourcing and carrier ...
Addressing the Top-Voted Issues by Drivers & Carriers | Dan Murray
January 30, 2020 03:00 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBThe American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) is a leading non-profit research organization dedicated to the safety, efficiency, and productivity of the North American trucking industry. Dan Murray (Senior Vice President) oversees the development of ATRI’s research methodologies and helps distribute and promote their research findings. In this episode, host Chris Caplice asks Dan to share insights on two recent ATRI reports: Critical Issues in the Trucking Industry — 2019 which su...
The Impact of ELDs & Other Freight Policies | Alex Scott
January 16, 2020 03:00 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBAfter nearly a decade as a practitioner at JB Hunt, Kenco Logistics, and IBM, Alex Scott went back to school for his PhD before returning to the world of academia to dig into transportation and policy research as well as teaching. Alex is currently an Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management at Michigan State University. To start their discussion Chris Caplice asks Alex to share his key takeaways from three of his previous research projects based on actual datasets (versus theory). T...
[Bonus] Cut for Time: Best of 2019
January 09, 2020 03:00 - 20 minutes - 19 MBThis bonus episode serves as your Freightvine podcast backstage pass — from exclusive, never-heard-before clips to some hilarious stumbles and outtakes from 2019! You will hear from a number of previous guests, including: Craig Fuller (CEO, FreightWaves), Kristen Monaco (Associate Commissioner of Compensation and Working Conditions, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics), David Correll (Research Scientist & Lecturer, MIT), and Andy Butler (Associate Director, North America Transportation Purchases...
Looking Ahead: Freight Futures & the Role of Intermediaries | Craig Fuller
December 19, 2019 03:00 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBCraig Fuller, CEO at FreightWaves, has a long and storied history in the trucking industry. He starts this episode by explaining how his career began at US Xpress Enterprises in the mid-1990s, a company which was founded by his father in 1985. After a decade there, he started two of his own companies, Transfund$ and TransCard, before launching FreightWaves in 2016. Craig shares that the original vision for FreightWaves was to build a freight futures market (which eventually launched in early...
[Bonus] The Past, Present & Future of Transportation Benchmarking
December 12, 2019 03:00 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBFMIC is getting predictive, and we’re excited to give our Freightvine listeners a sneak peek at the future of transportation benchmarking at Chainalytics. In this episode, Dr. Chris Caplice (Chief Scientist at Chainalytics & Executive Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics) recaps the origin of the “Model-Based Benchmarking Consortium” which was one of the first large-scale applications of machine learning techniques to understand the underlying drivers of transportati...
Solving the Driver Shortage: The value of 12 minutes | David Correll
December 05, 2019 06:00 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBIn this week’s episode, Chris is joined by a colleague at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics and fellow Research Scientist, Dr. David Correll. At MIT, Dave leads the FreightLab’s driver initiative which is focused on North American over-the-road truck drivers, and finding ways to increase utilization and profitability while also improving the driver experience. Chris and Dave discuss several research findings related to the alleged “driver shortage,” including Hours of Service (HO...
Becoming a Shipper of Choice with Empathy | Andy Butler
November 21, 2019 06:00 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBTransportation procurement leader Andy Butler (Associate Director, North America Transportation Purchases @ Procter & Gamble) discusses how P&G has leveraged the power of empathy to become a shipper of choice — which is delivering results in both tight and soft freight markets. Andy goes on to explain how the company is partnering with its transportation providers and customers to be the voice of change in the industry. To wrap it up, he discusses how end-to-end supply chain synchronization ...
The Economics of Transportation Labor & Autonomous Trucking | Kristen Monaco
November 07, 2019 06:00 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBFormally educated as an economist, Dr. Kristen Monaco (Associate Commissioner of Compensation and Working Conditions @ U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) has a unique pulse on the U.S. transportation labor market. In this episode, Chris Caplice gets a chance to discuss her latest industry research, including the questions that must be answered before the shift to autonomous vehicles can become reality. Kristen goes on to explain the effect that good, bad, and frictional unemployment has on the...
Building Trust in the Spot Market with Data Transparency | Brent Hutto
October 24, 2019 07:00 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBIn this episode, Chris Caplice sits down with Brent Hutto (Chief Relationship Officer @ Truckstop.com) to talk about the benefits of increased data transparency and growing trust between parties in the spot market. Brent goes on to explain some owner-operator trends like tracking, shifting demographics, and improved efficiency. Their conversation wraps up by discussing the value of connected systems and the impact of ELDs along with other emerging technologies. Chris is then joined by Inam I...
Uberization & the Shifting Shipper/Carrier Relationship | Bill Driegert
October 10, 2019 07:00 - 31 minutes - 27.2 MBIn this episode, freight innovator Bill Driegert joins Chris Caplice to discuss how digital freight matchers like Uber Freight are shifting the traditional relationship between shippers, carriers, and drivers. Bill also explains the impact of increased visibility a la driver ratings and reviews as well as the benefits of a shared trailer pool like UberFreight’s Powerloop. Inam Iyoob then joins Chris to provide this week’s market update and rate forecast. [02:47] In case you’re interested...
Trends & Innovations in Freight Brokerage | Steve Raetz
September 26, 2019 07:00 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBThe freight broker business has changed significantly over the past 30 years. In this episode, Steve Raetz (Director, Research & Market Intelligence at C.H. Robinson) shares his take on: The value of freight visibility Technology-based improvement opportunities The roadmap for autonomous trucks and how they will (potentially) affect brokerages Leveraging data science for route & load planning To wrap it up, Chris Caplice and Inam Iyoob provide this week’s market update and rate forecast...
The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Freight Transportation Procurement | Kevin Zweier
September 12, 2019 07:00 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBBased on the 250+ sourcing events he’s led, Kevin Zweier (VP, Transportation @ Chainalytics) shares some of the biggest lessons he has learned and makes a compelling case for transparency — for shippers and carriers alike — in order to make the most of your freight transportation sourcing events. Chris Caplice and Inam Iyoob then dig into this week’s market update and forecast as well as your feedback on the proposed HOS rule changes.
30 Years with the World’s Largest Retailer (Part 2) | Chris Sultemeier
August 29, 2019 07:00 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBIn Part 2 of our conversation with Chris Sultemeier (former EVP, Logistics @ Walmart), the Chris duo goes deeper into problem-solving the driver shortage, the recent uptick in investment firm activity, and trends like autonomous vehicles, IoT, and e-commerce/last mile. This week's market update is presented by Inam, and then Chris and Inam share their views on the proposed HOS rule changes. Take our HOS poll here: app.sli.do/event/crhxmevq. Or go to slido.com and use “FV003” as your event c...
30 Years with the World’s Largest Retailer (Part 1) | Chris Sultemeier
August 15, 2019 07:00 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBChris Sultemeier (former EVP, Logistics @ Walmart) shares what he learned from executing, managing, and eventually leading the transportation and logistics activities of the world's largest retailer for almost 30 years. In Part 1, the Chris duo talks about sustainability, IoT, and the driver shortage. This week's market update is presented by Inam and Chris. 10:04 — Chris S. mentions an interesting article about Trucks & IoT. In case you're interested, here's the link: https://www.wsj.com/a...
Evolution of Transportation Management | Gary Girotti
August 01, 2019 10:53 - 29 minutes - 27 MBIn this episode, Chris and Gary (Global EVP, Transportation Consulting & Intelligence Products @ Chainalytics) take a walk down memory lane to assess exactly what's changed in the transportation industry since the 1990s. Inam also shares the current state of the truckload market, while Chris provides a rate forecast.
Get to Know the Freightvine Hosts
July 24, 2019 22:26 - 5 minutes - 4.69 MBSay hello to Chris Caplice and Inam Iyoob — two transportation and logistics rockstars, bringing a combined 40+ years of experience to the Freightvine podcast. Enjoy this short conversation, and mark your calendar for the first full-length episode on August 1!
Introducing the Freightvine Podcast
July 16, 2019 12:01 - 3 minutes - 2.78 MBIt's here: The official trailer for the Freightvine podcast, launching August 1, 2019. Listen as co-hosts Chris Caplice and Inam Iyoob walk you through what you can expect during each episode and how you can get involved.