Freight Famous

What attracts women to the trucking industry? What does the data show about the impact of hiring women? In this episode, host Justin Bailie talks with Ellen Voie, President & CEO of the Women In Trucking Association, about her experience being a woman in the industry and why she started Women In Trucking, attracting and retaining female team members, and the data behind why women make great employees.

Very few things in life are linear — especially starting a business. In this episode, host Justin Bailie talks with Craig Fuller, CEO and Founder of FreightWaves. Craig shares stories about his background in trucking, building FreightWaves, and how his role as a founder and leader has evolved as the business has grown. This episode is filled with informational gems about founding a company, the challenges a founder faces, and insights around the future of the trucking industry.

Is freight a commodity? In this episode, host Justin Bailie and guest Kyle Lintner, take a deep dive into the current state of the freight industry and the ways organizations can collaborate to solve shared problems. They discuss topics like freight futures, whether freight is a commodity, solving for industry pain points, and what organizations can do to better future-proof themselves. 

“The ones who make it are the ones who last.” You just have to keep going. With a few Hail Mary moments, perseverance, and maybe a little bit of good timing and luck, the road to what Rose Rocket is today wasn’t always easy. In this bonus episode, Freight Famous host Justin Bailie chats with Winnie Chen, Rose Rocket’s Director of Marketing, about how he got into transportation, his experience at Y-Combinator with the other co-founders, building the Rose Rocket team, and the personal and mental health challenges he’s had to navigate while building this product and raising a family. 

How do you go from 0 - 1 when building a business in the freight industry? In this episode, host Justin Bailie talks with Charley Dehoney of ZEBOX America. Charley shares how ZEBOX America works with supply chain focused startups to solve pain points in the industry, his experience being employee 1 at Cargomatic and the early days of building that business, and what it takes to be an entrepreneur in transportation.

What’s involved in bootstrapping a freight brokerage business? In this episode, host Justin Bailie, talks with Nicholas Reasoner of TransLoop about the early days of building a freight brokerage and they cover topics like working with co-founders, financing, hiring, and leveraging technology to improve customer experience.

How can data help predict rates? In this episode, host Justin Bailie, talks with Dawn Salvucci-Favier of Greenscreens.ai about the power of analyzing historical load data and market activity to predict rates, the democratization of data, parenting as a female leader, what’s happening in the market right now, and how we can learn from the past to prepare for the future. 

What does it mean to get paid fast? In this episode, host Justin Bailie, talks with Bharath Krishnamoorthy of Axle Payments about the payment process for brokers, how technology can help improve that process, building Axle Payments with his co-founder, and the effects of changing interest rates. 

How does a venture capital firm help solve pain points in the logistics industry? In this information-packed conversation, host Justin Bailie, and episode guest, Justin Young from Prologis Ventures talk about the role of venture capital in the logistics industry, what venture capital is, and current and future trends you need to know as a logistics or transportation business.

What is public relations? How should a trucking company think about PR? In this episode, host Justin Bailie, talks with Susan Fall of LaunchIt PR about how trucking companies should integrate PR into their business strategy, what they should do to improve their PR, and how to think about the ROI of PR.