
Freightonomics
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Ep 97Conflicted messages
Zach and Anthony discuss the mixed signals being given by the freight market and economy at the moment while updating the impact of the Ukrainian conflict. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 96Are you sure this is what you want?
Zach and Anthony dive into what some regulations might mean, and how far is too far in an overaction Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 95Overdue Innovation
Zach and Anthony chat with three guest about the long overdue changes needed in the supply chain and speculate about the future for the industry Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 94How equities markets influence transportation
Zach and Anthony discuss what to make of the connection between financial markets and the transportation sector/economy. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 93Are we interested?
Zach and Anthony discuss what the looming interest rate increase means for economic development in 2022. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 92Pandemic to Endemic
Zach and Anthony discuss a few big earnings reports and what some of the lasting changes will be as the world economy adapts to Covid as a permanent fixture. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 91New Year Same Supply Chain
Zach and Anthony break down the strong start for truckload demand this year and how supply chains continue to play catch up. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 90How did this happen? Freight stops freight.
Zach and Anthony discuss the Central Freight shut down and discuss how a carrier can fail in one of the biggest freight booms in history. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 89Still Broken
Zach and Anthony reconnect with Dr Zac Rogers and discuss the latest Logistics Managers’ Index results and how supply chains have changed over the past year. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 88That all you got??
Zach and Anthony breakdown the nuances hitting the freight markets this peak season and talk 2022 expectations Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 87To peak or not to peak
With the traditional start to retail peak season happening next week, Zach and Anthony discuss whether or not we have already seen the peak of the recent economic and transportation sector’s cycle. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 86What Rhymes with FreightTech?!
Zach and Anthony dive into the expectations for the freight industry in 2022 and beyond with Managing Director, of Deutsche Bank Amit Mehrotra, and Truckstop.com Chief Relationship Officer, Brent Hutto. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ep 85Why does it matter??
Lead Economist, Anthony Smith sits down with Lionel Van Der Walt, of PayCargo and David Ma, of Front to chat about the importance of optimization in logistics and the customer experience. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ep 84Maritime Spooktacular!
Zach and Anthony bring on Henry Byers to discuss the recent problems surrounding the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and their downstream impacts on surface transportation. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ep 83Already Living in 2022
Zach and Anthony bring on Wes Struebing to discuss some takeaways from the close of the 3rd quarter and what are some developing trends heading into peak season and 2022. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ep 82The Cold Truth
Zach and Anthony bring on Matthew Mugar Co-Founder BOA Logistics, Logica Trucking, and Flow Cold Warehouse to discuss the challenges of operating a refrigerated fleet and brokerage over the past year and what is looming for the future. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ep 81Is the port congestion problem solvable?
Zach and Anthony bring on Chris Wolfe, CEO of PowerFleet, to discuss his perspective on the ongoing port congestion and problems contributing to it like the chassis shortage and lack of visibility and how technology can play a critical role in alleviating supply chain bottlenecks. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ep 80Climbing the peak or walking the plateau?
Zach and Anthony bring on Mary O’Connell to discuss what peak season may look like this year from a brokerage/managed transportation perspective. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ep 79All Aboard?
Zach and Anthony bring on Mike Baudendistel to get a rail report. Will the congestion issues and limited chassis availability around the ports and ramps continue to limit capacity. Also an update on the Canadian Pacific KC rail merger. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ep 78Explain This!
Zach and Anthony bring on Gabrielle Bosché, co-founder of the purpose company and expert on millennial culture, to discuss how to navigate generational differences as hiring and retaining employees becomes a growing challenge. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ep 77Explain This!
Zach and Anthony go back and forth between latest trends and differing views with FreightWaves Market Expert Henry Byers. Follow FreightWaves on Apple Podcasts Follow FreightWaves on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ep 76Another Shutdown??
Anthony and Zach bring on Wes Struebing to talk about the current state of freight and implications for another shutdown. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ep 75Let the cramming begin
Anthony and Zach bring on Zac Rogers to discuss the latest Logistics Managers results and the growth in warehouse and short haul demand as shippers prepare for the fourth quarter. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ep 74Rough seas ahead
Anthony and Zach bring on Greg Miller to discuss the upcoming maritime peak season, rates, and the potential for regulatory action on ocean shipping. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ep 73Roadblocked
Anthony and Zach bring on Alan Adler to discuss PACCAR’s backlog of truck orders and how Nikola founder Trevor Milton’s fraud charges impact his former company. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 72UBER BIG NEWS
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Ep 71The economics of growth
Anthony and Zach discuss the latest Knight-Swift purchase of AAA Cooper and what the recent large LTL purchases mean for the sector. Dr. Zac Rogers joins to discuss if this is just a way for carriers to use their newfound cash reserves to grow without ordering trucks. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ep 70Lessons from the first half of 2021
Anthony and Zach bring on Wes Struebing to discuss how the fundamentals of freight management have changed through the first half of 2021 and what the next six months have in store. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 69Air It Out
Anthony and Zach bring on Eric Kulisch to discuss Fedex/LTL, the port of Savannah, and the current state of air cargo in a smorgasbord of supply chain stories. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 68Will the bear wake up?
Anthony and Zach discuss whether or not we are seeing the early signs of goods demand falling and the potential fallout when the economic boom wanes. Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 67Something's Gotta Give!
Zach and Anthony bring on Dr. Dale and Zac Rogers to discuss the ongoing build up of upstream price increases, challenges around unemployment, and more! Follow Freightonomics on Apple Podcasts Follow Freightonomics on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 66When will capacity stop crunching
Zach and Anthony bring on Alan Adler to discuss how OEMs supply chain issues may keep the current transportation cycle tighter longer. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 65Well, wood you look at that?
Zach and Anthony talk lumber, labor gas and warehouse capacity and what it means for freight. Special guest Zac Rogers joins to give LMI updates. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 64The cost of nearshoring
Anthony and Zach discuss the rising costs and shortages of commodities and how they are putting the squeeze on production and inventories as the economy crawls out of the pandemic and ask should we put more effort on domestic production? Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 63The maritimely-ness of it all
The maritime shipping space has been filled with more drama than an episode of the Kardashians. Henry Byers joins Anthony and Zach to discuss the container shortage, Suez Canal debacle, and other problems that have contributed to all-time high shipping rates and what some of the data is telling us about the future. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 62High & Tight!
Zach and Anthony dive into higher prices making it's way to consumers and tight capacity within warehousing with Dr. Zac Rogers. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 61Unions, Semiconductors, and Employment
Anthony and Zach discuss what the Amazon Union vote means for logistics, how the semiconductor shortage will impact capacity, and why employers are having trouble hiring. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 60Intermod-all about it
Anthony and Zach bring on intermodal and rail expert Mike Baudendistel to discuss how the sector is handling import growth, the container crisis, and what its future looks like post pandemic. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 59Suez What!?
The Suez canal blockage has been a big enough deal to make its way into pop-culture meme references. But what are the real implications of what appears to be yet another roadblock for supply chain and inventory management in 2021? Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 58Is inflation becoming a real threat to economic recovery?
The winter weather sent transportation rates back into peak mode while supply chains got another roadblock in their path to inventory replenishments. All of these problems come at a cost that will eventually end up hitting the consumer and potentially stifling the recovery process. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 57Rough waters ahead
Maritime capacity continues to push rates higher Dr Zac Rogers comes on to discuss how this has pushed many shippers to look for other options as supply chains are reformed throughout the globe. Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 56How Quickly are Supply Chains Changing?
Zach and Anthony discuss how supply chain managers are changing their focus after a year of COVID and bring on Dr Zac Rogers to talk about how quickly things are moving with a look at the latest Logistic’s Managers Index Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 55The Data Dump
Anthony and Zach pour through the latest economic and freight market numbers, explaining the significance of each while discussing the increasing importance of knowing how to interpret and use data in the age of over-information. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 54Protectionism vs Free Trade
After a trade war with China and a pandemic, more protectionist policies have been considered and implemented in the U.S. than seen in decades. What does this mean for the economic recovery and domestic transportation? Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 53Unclogging the bottlenecks
Anthony and Zach discuss how the nation's largest restocking event will shape transportation and logistics through the first half of the year with Dr Zac Rogers Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 52"What Matter the Most"
Zach and Anthony dive into what matters the most during times of chaos and uncertainty. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 51Will 2021 be a good year for freight?
Anthony and Zach have a comprehensive discussion over what the economic and freight market indicators are telling us to expect in the coming year. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 50Where’s my freight?
Anthony and Zach discuss the latest LMI results and how transportation bottlenecks may be leaving a lot of the freight undelivered until after Christmas. Watch Apple Podcast Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 49Distributing the vaccine
Anthony and Zach bring on CEO of PowerFleet Chris Wolfe to discuss some of the hurdles of distributing the most economically impactful freight of our time. Watch Listen on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 48What drives profitability in transportation
Anthony and Zach discuss why the capacity crunch may not lead to long lasting profits for many transportation providers as well as give an update on the economy and freight markets. Watch Listen on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices