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On today’s episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is talking about carrier DOT compliance programs. Kathy Close at J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc. shares where carriers struggled and what the top drug and alcohol violations were. 

Did rail workers get a raw deal? FreightWaves Rachel Premack has been working on the railroad story. 

RMS Carriers knows how to give back. Following the success of their turkey giveaway, they’re now running a toy and coat drive to benefit their community this Christmas. Ryann Spann at RMS Carriers joins us to spread the good word. 

How does a CSA score get generated for a trucking company? Mark Barlar at Reliance Partners does the math. 

And we’ll round things out with Rooster and SuperTrucker as they share their trucking experience on the wildest and weirdest stories of the week.

Plus, why the hell did Georgia pick Edward Scissorhands as its favorite Christmas movie?

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This week, the Back The Truck Up Podcast welcomes TruckerDown.org CEO Etienne Hightower and Bonnie Langendorff, Public Relations/Board Relations, to talk about how their organization is helping truckers in need, at home and on the road. TruckerDown works with other organizations to set up donation activities such as GoFundMe sites, transporting drivers home after an incident or breakdown, or even sending pets home when their owner is in the hospital. They even helped a driver locate a truck that they could use while disabled to keep income flowing.

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, we’ve invested in our locations and staff to get your drivers back on the road quickly and safely. Visit loves.com to learn more.

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Mary O’Connell and Jeff Leppert, Senior Vice President- Capacity Solutions at Redwood Logistics, cover API and LTL’s beautiful partnership and what to expect in 2023.

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, we’ve invested in our locations and staff to get your drivers back on the road quickly and safely. Visit loves.com to learn more.

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Recorded from the FreightWaves TV stage at The Future of Freight Festival (F3) in Chattanooga, Tyler Cole chats with Rob Pluta, VP of Product and CTO at Ryder. Listen in to hear what policies and demand signals will be most helpful to scale EVs and future technologies like autonomous vehicles. With over 250,000 vehicles in the North American fleet, Ryder is a major provider of supply chain management and fleet services. Learn how Ryder is executing on a vision to roll out electric vehicles and charging infrastructure to not only meet its own ESG goals, but also to enable its customers achieve their own decarbonization efforts.

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, we’ve invested in our locations and staff to get your drivers back on the road quickly and safely. Visit loves.com to learn more.

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Craig Fuller, Founder of FreightWaves shares the origin story behind the industry's largest media company. Listen in as he shares why he cares about bootstrapped entrepreneurship as well as how his own failures became the building blocks of later success. 

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FreightWaves’ Mike Baudendistel discusses Kroger’s results last week. In addition, he explains why grocery prices haven’t yet reacted to the decline in agriculture commodity prices. Plus, he runs through a few SONAR charts that highlight the loose dry van and reefer markets and an intermodal market that is lacking a fall peak season. 

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, we’ve invested in our locations and staff to get your drivers back on the road quickly and safely. Visit loves.com to learn more.

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Kevin sits down with Matthew Leffler, The Armchair Attorney, to discuss some of the hot legal issues facing logistics and transportation. The conversation starts off with non-competes, then slides over to AB5, then on to freight broker liability, before closing out on the importance of limiting your liability with corporate structures if you are an independent contractor.

You can learn more about Matthew at his website here, https://armchairattorney.com.

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On this episode of Running on Ice, Alex Winston, the president of Expedite All and Reefer Van Network talks about the demand for small refrigerated vehicles. He sees this demand growing and though some companies are finding solutions to moving small shipments, designated temperature-controlled vehicles could save more than lost product.

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