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Freightvine

DAT Freight and Analytics, Chris Caplice

Hear the latest in freight transportation, supply chain and logistics from the Freightvine podcast.

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00:47:35

Bobby Holland | Freight Insights: U.S. Bank and The...

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2025/03/06

This week’s guest is Bobby Holland, Vice President and Director, Freight Business Analytics, at US Bank. US Bank has been around since 1863 and is currently the 5th largest bank in the United States. They also process over $40B in freight payments each year. In our conversation, Bobby explains his unexpected entry into the trucking industry and the incredible reliance everyone has on it. He also discusses how US Bank’s Freight Payment Index provides data-driven insights into freight trends at

00:47:29

Jerrod Mounce | Multiple Approaches to Sustainable...

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2025/02/20

This week’s guest is Jerrod Mounce, Vice President of Energy & Sustainability at JB Hunt. Our conversation focuses on JB Hunt’s sustainability initiatives and the broader landscape of alternative fuels in trucking. Jerrod discusses his 26-year career at JB Hunt, detailing his shift from operations to a focus on fuel efficiency and sustainability. He highlights the complexities of fuel surcharge programs and JB Hunt's commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 32% by 2034. The

00:47:49

Matt McLelland | A Common Sense Approach to...

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2025/02/06

This week’s guest is Matt McLelland, VP of Sustainability and Innovation at Covenant Logistics Group. In our conversation today we discuss the connection between sustainability and innovation, the potential impact of emerging technologies, and the paroles of overly prescriptive regulations. We also talk about the pros and cons for alternative fuels. Matt makes a strong case for having regulations that encourage innovation in a variety of different energy platforms, rather than dictating a single

00:43:00

Ian Jefferies | State of the Rail Industry 2025

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2025/01/27

This week’s guest is Ian Jefferies, President and CEO, Association of American Railroads. Ian has been with the AAR for over 10 years taking over as President in 2019. Ian was last on the Freightvine in February 2023 and obviously a lot has happened since then. In the conversation, Ian talks about the long term effect of the 2022 Railroad Labor Dispute, how the rail industry is currently evolving, and where it is heading over the long-term. He discusses the challenges of adopting new

00:50:03

Andrew Petrisin | Unlocking FLOW: Freight Logistics...

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2025/01/09

This week’s guest is Andrew Petrisin, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multimodal Freight in the U.S. Department of Transportation and the creator of the USDOT’s Freight Logistics Optimization Works or FLOW. FLOW is a public private partnership whereby different players in the global supply chain share previously unshared commercial data to better understand changes in international freight flows. These data are securely anonymized and harmonized within the platform and the results are available for

00:50:14

Ken Adamo and Dean Croke | Wrapping Up 2024 and...

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2024/12/19

This week’s guests are my two DAT iQ colleagues: Ken Adamo, Chief of Analytics, and Dean Croke, Principal Analyst. This is our annual end of the year podcast where we revisit our predictions from last year, discuss the major issues of the current year, and take our best guesses as to what will happen next year. As always our conversation ranged wide - to include the continued soft market of 2024, challenges of current air travel, predictions of a rising market in 2025, the impact of the election,

00:50:04

Rob Haddock | Transportation Adventures of a Food...

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2024/12/12

This week’s guest is Rob Haddock the recently retired Group Director of Planning & Logistics at Coca-Cola North America. In his retirement, Rob has started a new firm (Albedo Logistics), begun consulting projects on the side, and written a book! I asked Rob to join me on the Freightvine to discuss his book, titled, Transportation Adventures of a Food Shipper: A Shipper’s Guide to Truckload Transportation - The Sapient Shipper Adventures. Rob has distilled his almost 40 years of experience in the

00:52:51

Kevin Zweier | Shifting Procurement Strategies

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2024/11/28

This week’s guest is Kevin Zweier, Vice President of Transportation Practice at NTT, formerly Chainalytics. Long term listeners might recall that Kevin has actually been on the Freightvine 3 times: pre-pandemic in 2019, during the pandemic in 2021, and in the post pandemic in 2022. Now that we are apparently ending the pandemic induced TL market cycle, it is time to bring him back again to talk about how shippers’ TL Procurement strategies are, or should be, changing. During our conversation,

00:41:21

Tim Denoyer | Revolutionary Change at an Evolutionary...

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2024/11/14

This week’s guest is Tim Denoyer, VP and Senior Analyst at ACT Research. Tim has been a financial analyst covering the transportation space for pretty much his entire career. At ACT Research, he is the lead analyst in their transportation research effort and is the primary author of the ACT Freight Forecast, U.S. Rate and Volume Outlook. In our conversation, we talked about the current state of the TL market, the rise of private fleets, and why he views it as “revolutionary change at an

00:37:54

Chad Kennedy & Samuel Parker| Review of DATCON and...

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2024/10/31

This week’s guests are Chad Kennedy, Senior Product Manager at DAT, and Samuel Parker, Associate Director Shipper Segment at DAT. Chad and Samuel hosted and ran the most recent Shipper Summit in Kansas City, which had close to 100 shipper customers. As the kick-off event of DATCON each year, the Shipper Summit is an invitation-only, shipper-only event that features expert panels on procurement and transportation management as well as a forum for peer-to-peer discussion on a variety of pertinent

00:54:36

Erika Voss | Cybersecurity in Transportation

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2024/10/17

This week’s guest is Dr. Erika Voss, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at DAT. Erika joined DAT earlier in 2024 as our first CISO coming from a long career in security and risk at companies such as MicroSoft, Salesforce, Oracle, and CapitalOne. In her role, she is really changing the game in cybersecurity for the entire trucking transportation industry. Erika explains that the types of fraud and theft that occur in our industry are all essentially cybersecurity issues. Interestingly, the

00:51:03

Bill Cassidy | Current Challenges and Opportunities...

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2024/10/03

This week’s guest is Bill Cassidy, Senior Editor for Trucking and Domestic Transportation at the Journal of Commerce. Bill has been covering transportation for over 30 years writing and editing at Fleet Owner, Transport Topics, Traffic World, and now for the last 10+ years at the JOC. He has a great perspective on all things freight. In our conversation we discuss the potential impact on the transportation industry of different events to include the Federal Reserve recently voting to lower

00:54:34

Felipe Capella | AI in Transportation

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2024/09/19

This week’s guest is Felipe Capella, CEO and co-founder of LoadSmart. After 10 years as a lawyer, Felipe decided to start a company to build something along with his co-founder, Ricardo Salgado. They chose freight transportation since it has a huge total available market, is highly fragmented, and was ripe for technological improvement. They initially started out as a brokerage but over the last ten years they have grown LoadSmart into being a platform that provides, among other things, TMS software

00:44:29

Dr. Alex Scott | Fleet Sustainability Index

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2024/09/05

This week’s guest is Dr. Alex Scott, Associate Professor of SCM at UTK and co-founder of Sustainable Logistics. There is growing pressure on companies - both regulatory and socially - to reduce the emissions that they generate. One of the largest sources of CO2 emissions is freight transportation. Unfortunately, most companies outsource their transportation to carriers - so they do not have direct control over the asset being used. These types of emissions - where the company is responsible for it

00:45:17

Josh Brogan | State of Logistics 2024

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2024/08/22

This week’s guest is Josh Brogan, Partner at Kearney. Josh is one of the lead authors of the recently released CSCMP’s Annual State of Logistics Report titled “Waiting for the tide to turn”. As most listeners probably know, the report is authored by the management consulting firm Kearney and presented by Penske Logistics. The conversation, while focusing mainly on the report itself, meandered through other topics including reshoring trends, potential consolidation of the 3PL or Lead Logistics

00:52:04

Alex Leslie | TL Carrier Costs: 2024 Update

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2024/08/08

This week’s guest is Alex Leslie, Senior Research Analyst at the American Transportation Research Institute. Alex is the lead author of ATRI’s latest research publication “Analysis of the Operational Costs of Trucking: 2024 Update”. I had Alex on just about a year ago for the 2023 report. Using detailed polling and data analysis, Alex can reveal not only the current average per-mile costs, but also changes in the individual cost components, the impact of carrier size on costs, and underlying trends

00:34:52

Terry Donohoe | Global Trade, Now and Next

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2024/07/25

This week’s guest is Terry Donohoe, Senior Vice President of Freight Forwarding, U.S & Mexico for DP World. As most of us know, DP World is a leading global logistics company headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. They operate a large network of marine and inland terminals across more than 40 countries, handling approximately 10% of global container traffic. In our conversation, Terry provides an overview of DP World as well as the global freight forwarding industry. We discuss the impacts

00:52:10

Gonzalo Cordova | Applying Artificial Intelligence to...

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2024/07/12

This week’s guest is Gonzalo Cordova, Director of Decision Science and Automation at The Home Depot. Gonzalo has a long history of solving business and supply chain problems using sophisticated analytical methods. After finishing his MS at GaTech in 2005, he worked for companies as varied as GE Energy, Lafarge, Coca-Cola, and The Home Depot. His current role is leading the team that is applying AI, and other analytical methods they have in their tool belt, to solve various challenges within the

00:47:13

Chad Kennedy | The Science and Art Behind DAT iQ...

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2024/06/27

This week’s guest is Chad Kennedy, Group Product Manager of the Rate Benchmark platform at DAT Freight & Analytics. Chad has been in the trucking and transportation space for over two decades now as both a carrier and a shipper. While originally trained in finance, he joined a small family-owned trucking company in the early 2000s. He moved on to CHEP (the blue pallet people) where he rose to be Director of Transportation. Finally, he joined Chainalytics in 2018 and was part of the acquisition by

00:47:21

Keith Brandis | Decarbonizing the Supply Chain One...

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2024/06/13

This week’s guest is Keith Brandis, Vice President of Partnerships and System Solutions at Volvo Trucks. Keith is a 40-plus-year veteran of the trucking industry with a diverse background in truck manufacturing, engineering, sales, and marketing for the Volvo Group. He began his career with Volvo Trucks at its New River Valley manufacturing operations in Dublin, Virginia, where all of the brands’ Class 8 trucks for the North American market are assembled. Today, he works in the Project and Product

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