Transport Topics
977 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★ - 13 ratingsListen to a quick daily rundown of all of the information you need to succeed in the fast-paced business world of trucking and freight transportation.
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Transport Topics (June 4, 2024)
June 04, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news about Einride’s big battery-electric truck purchase, progress at the Port of Baltimore and a summer trip that has become a ritual for one state truck driving champion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (June 3, 2024)
June 03, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news about Ohio coordinating the movement of super loads, a decision on whether CIE avoided antidumping duties, and lower diesel demand in March. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (May 31, 2024)
May 31, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news about ATRI’s 2024 research priorities, multiple states joining lawsuits against EPA and CARB’s heavy-truck rules, and action on Capitol Hill involving water resources and the supply chain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (May 30, 2024)
May 30, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news about ATA’s reaction to the DEA possibly downgrading marijuana from a Schedule I to Schedule III drug, Volvo Trucks’ new On Demand service, and April container volumes from the ports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (May 29, 2024)
May 29, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news about an alliance between two telematics companies, Volvo’s plans for testing trucks with a hydrogen ICE and Canada’s investment in a mineral port. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (May 27, 2024)
May 27, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news about a new truck inspection station in New York, OPEC+ meeting plans in June, and a look at AI in trucking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (May 24, 2024)
May 24, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes developments with the underride crash committee, Kenworth Truck Co.’s SuperTruck 2 concept, and executives discussing battery-electric truck adoption. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (May 23, 2024)
May 23, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news on trailer orders, the debut of a production-ready autonomous truck, and California legislation that could require new cars in future years to beep at drivers exceeding the speed limit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (May 22, 2024)
May 22, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news on truck tonnage, the launch of a battery-electric truck, and the challenges that lie ahead as fleets look to add more electric vehicles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (May 21, 2024)
May 21, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news on a movers coalition pushing back on a government contract, scores of entities pushing back on a proposed California locomotive rule, and Uber Freight launching a spot freight fulfillment platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (May 20, 2024)
May 20, 2024 17:38 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news on a Volvo-Daimler joint venture, Honda’s new Class 8 FCEV, and Idaho’s plan to monitor tires at ports of entry . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (May 17, 2024)
May 17, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news on clearing the waterways to the Port of Baltimore, an investigation into Samsara’s complaint against Motive Technologies, and how the trucking industry fared in the first quarter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (May 16, 2024)
May 16, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news on medium-duty truck sales in April, driver recruiting and retention trends for Q1, and Range Energy teaming up with Thermo King. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (May 15, 2024)
May 15, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news on the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act, a Ryder study on electric vehicles, and an FMCSA exemption for a flashing braking system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (May 14, 2024)
May 14, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news on Class 8 retail sales in April, TFI International’s latest acquisition and Volkswagen possibly selling 1 billion euros’ worth of stock in Traton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (May 13, 2024)
May 13, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news on a new avenue for renewable diesel, an eventful first quarter for Forward Air and Senate leaders touting the process behind the White House’s budget request. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (May 10, 2024)
May 10, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news on Class 8 truck orders and used sales, and a new development in the investigation of staged tractor-trailer accidents in the New Orleans area. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (May 9, 2024)
May 09, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes the unveiling of a demonstration truck, Nikola’s bottom line and a House panel planning a review of the bridge collapse in Baltimore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (May 8, 2024)
May 08, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes a sobering statistic regarding seat belt use, expansion at a facility in Hibbing, Minn., and an idling law that soon will go into effect in Idaho. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (May 7, 2024)
May 07, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes Daimler Truck earnings and news on Daimler Truck North America’s agreement with the United Auto Workers union, and a request regarding personal conveyance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (May 6, 2024)
May 06, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes earnings from XPO and Cummins, and news on Oregon spending part of a federal grant on increasing the truck driver pool, and the Biden administration giving a slight reprieve to automakers making electric vehicles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (May 3, 2024)
May 03, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news about Exxon Mobil’s proposed purchase of Pioneer Natural Resources, earnings reports for three companies, and a new law set to take effect this summer in Mississippi that tackles predatory towing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (May 2, 2024)
May 02, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news about another attempt by California lawmakers to keep drivers in autonomous trucks, earnings reports from Eaton, Paccar, and Werner, and a trucking executive speaking on Capitol Hill about the timeline of the industry adopting electric trucks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (May 1, 2024)
May 01, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news about the denial of a CDL skills test petition, earnings for Saia and ArcBest, and a new Ryder facility in El Paso, Texas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (April 30, 2024)
April 30, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news about an annual forum hosted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the death of a U.S. congressional representative from New Jersey, and a look at the resilience of the supply chain and logistics companies over the past few years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (April 26, 2024)
April 26, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news about FMCSA developing a new online registration process, Tesla’s long-awaited Semi Class 8 tractor and the NTSB chairwoman’s nomination to continue in her role. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (April 25, 2024)
April 25, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news about the White House’s push to decarbonize the freight industry, a new chief executive at a major for-hire carrier and Norfolk Southern’s business strategy in the wake of its recent settlement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (April 24, 2024)
April 24, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news about truck tonnage volume, a study on the benefits of renewable diesel and a deeper channel for commercial vessels opening at the Port of Baltimore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (April 23, 2024)
April 23, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news about the proposed Kroger-Albertsons merger, Tesla’s price cuts and a new backing speed limiter feature for facilities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (April 22, 2024)
April 22, 2024 10:17 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes concerning news among transportation stocks, an update on salvage efforts in Baltimore, and why you might not want to “floor it” in your new Cybertruck. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (April 19, 2024)
April 19, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes updates on efforts to obtain funding to rebuild the collapsed bridge in Baltimore plus the port closure’s impact on prices. And we have the latest trailer order numbers from March. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (April 18, 2024)
April 18, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing contains news on five companies planning to merge into one large carrier, and two companies early out of the gate with earnings reports for the first quarter of 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (April 17, 2024)
April 17, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing contains news on medium-duty truck sales, a new tolling system on the Ohio Turnpike, and a look at the advantages and drawbacks of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (April 16, 2024)
April 16, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing contains news on the release of TT’s Top 100 logistics rankings, Volvo Trucks North America, and the Transportation Intermediaries Association’s conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (April 15, 2024)
April 15, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing contains news on Volvo’s plans to build a plant in Mexico, takeaways from the TIA conference in Phoenix and the effects of Ukraine’s drone attacks on Russia’s oil refineries on global fuel markets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (April 12, 2024)
April 12, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing contains news on Class 8 retail sales in March, government pledges to rebuild the collapsed bridge at the Port of Baltimore, and a West Virginia law limiting non-economic claims against commercial motor vehicles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (April 11, 2024)
April 11, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing contains news on the NTSB’s investigation into what caused the power failure aboard the ship that hit a bridge in Baltimore, a new cold storage facility at the Port of Gulfport, and Volvo’s new World of Volvo city center in its hometown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (April 10, 2024)
April 10, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing contains news on a Senate bill to encourage trucking apprenticeships for veterans, Daimler Truck’s first-quarter sales, and Norfolk Southern’s proposed settlement regarding the East Palestine derailment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (April 9, 2024)
April 09, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing contains news on Wisconsin’s governor vetoing a cap on CMV accident awards, Kodiak Robotics’ new autonomous council, and the Biden administration’s pledge on funds for a Taiwan chip maker’s expansion in Arizona. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (April 8, 2024)
April 08, 2024 14:06 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing contains news on the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s annual Roadcheck event and the latest involving the Port of Baltimore and the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (April 5, 2024)
April 05, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing contains news on positive drug tests among truck drivers, Americold’s expansion in a southern state, and Penske suing Sacramento, Calif., over an environmental plan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (April 4, 2024)
April 04, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing contains news on Class 8 truck orders for March, the ongoing investigation into staged tractor-trailer accidents in the New Orleans area, and cargo that has been diverted from the Port of Baltimore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (April 3, 2024)
April 03, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing contains news on a future boost to U.S.-Mexico trade, Rivian Automotive and Tesla first-quarter results, and an alternate channel opening up around the wreckage at the site of Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (April 2, 2024)
April 02, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing contains news about a judge striking down a Federal Highway Administration rule about emissions targets, a new law that small trucking company owners need to pay attention to, and a look at how COVID-19 changed the expectations for freight visibility. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (April 1, 2024)
April 01, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing contains news on EPA emissions standards, international rules that govern cargo ships and an electric truck distributor beginning deliveries in California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (March 29, 2024)
March 29, 2024 10:00 - 2 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing contains news on the Baltimore bridge disaster, a grocery giant scaling back and the U.S. padding its emergency oil supply. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (March 28, 2024)
March 28, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing contains news on used truck sales, uncertainty over California’s worker-classification law and continued positive results from the nation’s ports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (March 27, 2024)
March 27, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing contains news on the Baltimore bridge collapse, predatory truck leasing-purchase agreements and the passing of a tank truck industry stalwart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (March 26, 2024)
March 26, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing contains news from electric vehicle makers Tesla, Lucid and Fisker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transport Topics (March 25, 2024)
March 25, 2024 10:00 - 2 minutesTransport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today’s daily briefing includes news about job cuts at an automaker, Dubai being chosen for the launch of a flying taxi service, and an e-commerce logistics startup securing funding for expansion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices