Kaylee Nix, Reporter at FreightWaves, and Olivia Hu, Senior Business Development Manager at Uber Freight, talk about the necessity of a deep digital network and strong industry partnerships to create a successful roll out of autonomous vehicle technology.

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Federal and state policy makers are preparing to roll out rules and guidelines governing autonomous vehicles, and Congress recently approved new climate legislation – both will have cost and market implications for truck fleets and drivers. ACT Research’s Ann Rundle provides an update on what these changes will mean for the industry in this fireside chat with FreightWaves’ John Gallagher.

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The rise and fall of special purpose acquisition companies has been swift and brutal for some of the young companies enticed to go public before they were ready for the harsh realities of life under Wall Street scrutiny. Understanding what happened with SPACs means understand SPACs from the beginning. Vince Cubbage of Tortoise Acquisition, which has sponsored two SPACs and is lining up a third, brings his perspectives as the Autonomous and Electric Vehicles Summit keynote speaker.

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Sadaya Morris is the owner of Pink Transportation and a leader in the movement to get more women involved in trucking

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Love’s Truck Care & Speedco is the nation’s largest preventative maintenance network over the road. With more than 1,500 maintenance bays offering light mechanical services and DOT inspections, Love’s and Speedco are invested in getting drivers back on the road quickly and safely. Visit www.loves.com to learn more about our services.

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The auto industry’s goals for zero-emission sales in the next decade are ambitious, and it will need more raw materials like lithium, cobalt, nickel and rare earth elements than ever before. Evi Petavratzi, senior mineral commodity geologist for the British Geological Survey, explains why we should have started building more mines a decade ago, and, since we didn’t, what we can do to hurry things along.

Love’s Truck Care & Speedco is the nation’s largest preventative maintenance network over the road. With more than 1,500 maintenance bays offering light mechanical services and DOT inspections, Love’s and Speedco are invested in getting drivers back on the road quickly and safely. Visit www.loves.com to learn more about our services.

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Kaylee Nix talks to Lucas Systems about what warehouse workers are saying about the state of automation and how they want their jobs to change in the future.

Love’s Truck Care & Speedco is the nation’s largest preventative maintenance network over the road. With more than 1,500 maintenance bays offering light mechanical services and DOT inspections, Love’s and Speedco are invested in getting drivers back on the road quickly and safely. Visit www.loves.com to learn more about our services.

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FreightWaves Mary O’Connell and Brian Glick from Chain.io, dive into all things ocean freight

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Ryan Schreiber - Logistics entrepreneur and current VP at Metafora shares his light-hearted and humble approach to achieving success. Listen in to how he balances the seriousness of business with a dose of levity and laughter. 

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A former employee sued TQL, alleging that it has interfered with his efforts to get a job outside of the trucking industry. The complaint begins: “This case demonstrates the extraordinary measures TQL will take to harm the career prospects of an employee who has the temerity to leave the company.” The former employee’s lawyer Pete Patterson joins Cassandra to discuss the details of the case.

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On this episode of Running on Ice, Angie Twardawa from Angie’s Transportation joins the coolest community in freight to talk about her company’s refrigerated efforts and how California’s AB-5 law could impact the future of freight and the contract workers that rely on trucking jobs for their livelihood.

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