Do You Even Freight?

Do You Even Freight? — Finally Friday | August 21, 2026

Do You Even Freight? wraps up the week in trucking, freight and logistics with a look at freight rates, tightening capacity, carrier financial pressure, roadway safety, and the latest from FMCSA.

This week, demand remains soft while rates continue to climb and capacity tightens. Bloomberg Intelligence found 44% of surveyed carriers couldn’t operate for 30 days if invoice payments stopped. We’re also looking ahead to CVSA Brake Safety Week, which begins Sunday with additional focus on brake drums and rotors, following a week in which Kiss This Media identified at least 32 U.S. roadway incidents involving semis or tractor-trailers.

John covers FMCSA’s new Customer Relationship Records system, and our Topic of the Day asks:

Has distrust become freight’s new business model?

When did normal due diligence become full-blown detective work? Who should verify whom? Has technology helped fight freight fraud, or has it simply made fraud more sophisticated? And what’s the wildest verification request our hosts have encountered?

Plus, we’ve got Freight Dictionary, Kevin’s Hot Load, John’s Red Flag, and because it’s Finally Friday, we’re putting the heavy workweek away with the “Squidpocalypse of ’26” — more than 20 tons of squid spilled across a Rhode Island roadway.

Kick back, talk freight, and head into the weekend with Do You Even Freight?

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Do You Even Freight? | Broker Rate Transparency, FR8 Solutions Lawsuit, Diesel Prices & Trucking News

Today on Do You Even Freight?, we break down the freight and trucking stories driving the industry — including the debate over broker rate transparency and whether carriers should know what shippers actually paid for a load.

We look at the FR8 Solutions lawsuit and settlement, where owner-operators alleged altered rate sheets and underpayment, and ask our Topic of the Day:

Should brokers be required to disclose what the shipper actually paid? And is rate transparency really the answer?

Also on today’s show:

• FR8 Solutions lawsuit and owner-operator pay
• Broker vs. carrier rate transparency
• Rising U.S. diesel fuel prices
• CVSA’s 2026 International Driver Excellence Award recipient Tommy Cash
• Four-truck I-65 crash in Maury County, Tennessee
• Freight news, trucking industry updates and live discussion

Do You Even Freight? brings together trucking, logistics, freight brokerage, transportation news and the conversations affecting carriers, brokers, drivers and shippers.

Presented by Kiss This Media.

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It’s Monday morning in freight. The phones are ringing, loads are moving, plans are changing—and brokers, carriers and shippers are already trying to figure out why the other side is making everything so difficult.

On today’s Do You Even Freight? Morning Show, Shimmi, Kevin and John break down the day-to-day realities on all three sides of the freight equation. What do brokers, carriers and shippers actually deal with? Where do expectations fall apart? And how many of the problems everyone spends Monday morning fixing could have been prevented with better communication?

No side gets the easy seat in freight. This morning, we’re talking about what happens when expectations, information and reality don’t match.

It’s Finally Friday on Do You Even Freight? — and we’re asking a bigger question than rates, regulations, or this week’s headlines: Is the trucking industry actually getting better or worse for the next generation coming into it?

We’re talking training, pay, regulations, technology, working conditions, opportunity — and whether the industry we’re building is one the next generation will even want.

Plus, today’s rundown has a little bit of everything: sea lions make transportation news, Arizona delivers our Hot Load, we’re digging into the New York lawsuit involving DOT and DHS, and John has the AI hardware story in today’s Red Flag.

News, nonsense, regulation, technology — and one big question about where trucking is headed.

It’s Finally Friday.

The Do You Even Freight? Morning Show is back with the trucking news and conversations worth paying attention to.

This morning, we're digging into the federal lawsuit against KLLM Transport Services, where the EEOC alleges female driver trainees were treated differently than their male counterparts during the company's training program.

But the allegations themselves aren't the only thing that caught our attention.

We're also running through the latest industry news, developments affecting drivers and carriers, and the stories we're watching across transportation.

Do You Even Freight? brings freight talk without the filter — trucking news, industry issues and conversations from the people who actually live and work in transportation.

🎙️ New Morning Show episodes throughout the week.

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The first episode of Do You Even Freight? is officially in the books.

John, Kevin and Shimmi hit the mic for a rundown of the industry news and headlines getting attention across transportation, including the latest conversation surrounding Landstar.

Then, Michelle Hutchison joins the show to talk freight fraud — what’s happening, how it’s affecting people across the industry, and why brokers, carriers and drivers need to be paying attention.

It’s trucking. It’s logistics. It’s the stories people in freight are actually talking about.

In this episode:
• Industry news and headlines
• The latest on Landstar
• Freight fraud and its impact on the industry
• Michelle Hutchison joins the conversation
• What freight professionals should be watching

A little extra freight talk never hurt anybody. 🎙️

In this bonus Q&A episode, Shimmi Munson, John Cantera Jr. and Kevin Bullock answer questions, share their takes and dig into the topics that didn’t fit into the main show. Unscripted, unfiltered and straight from three very different sides of the industry.

You asked. They answered.