The FreightCaviar Podcast

Reed Rivers is the President & CEO of Freight Flex, a freight brokerage and logistics provider helping freight agents grow. He shares his take on why email needs to die in freight, VC money inflows, and non-competes. 

This week's episode is sponsored by  Epay Manager, Goodship, Augument Technologies Inc.

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Thomas Mella, Co-Founder of TrackFlo, breaks down why freight tech buying decisions are shaped more by integration limits and relationship density than AI capability, and more.
This week's episode is sponsored by Epay Manager, Augment Technologies Inc, Goodship
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Ryan Soskin helped build Convoy’s contract pricing team. Now, as Co-Founder and CEO at GoodShip, he’s giving carriers AI context on lanes, lead times, where contracts quietly fail.

This week's episode is sponsored by Rapido Solutions Group and Highway.

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Will Hopkins is the Co-Founder of Blackbox Logistics, a Birmingham-based freight brokerage nearing a $70M run rate, built through post-COVID cycle swings and open-deck volatility.
This week's episode is sponsored by Levity and Chain
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Jonathan McCormack and Brent Evens from OTR Solutions break down their newest platform, OTR Select, a tool built from carrier data, that helps brokers search a lane, origin, destination and equipment type, while also giving you visibility into the full freight footprint of the carrier.
This week's episode is sponsored by Epay Manager, CtrlChain, FreightFlex
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Craig Fuller, Founder & CEO at SONAR & FreightWaves, maps how deregulation, family dynamics, and brokerage culture built Chattanooga into a talent-dense freight capital driven by incentives and churn.

The full interview is available to FreightCaviar Magazine subscribers inside our private Circle community.

This week's episode is sponsored by Epay Manager and Augment Technologies Inc.
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Jonathan Salama, Co-Founder &  CEO at Transfix.io, on why automation should not compromise margin,  why Transfix split its brokerage and TMS, and how years of brokerage pain shaped their pricing, scheduling, and carrier selection systems.

This week's episode is sponsored by  Rapido, Highway, Goodship

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Sunbelt Drayage CEO, Pavel Botev, breaks down the realities of trucking in 2026—fraud risks, insurance gaps, and uneven accountability shaping who survives in freight. 

This week's episode is sponsored by Epay Manager, Chain, Levity.ai.

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David Parker built Covenant in Chattanooga, surviving busts, brokers, and shifting freight networks while watching the city become a central logistics hub.
This week's episode is sponsored by Epay Manager, CtrlChain, Freight Flex
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We sat down with Max Fuller, Founder of U.S. Xpress.
At its peak, his company had nearly 10,000 trucks. He has been in trucking for over 50 years and has seen every cycle from regulation to deregulation to today’s market.
In this conversation, he explains how trucking actually worked before deregulation, how companies were growing 70 to 80 percent per year, and how early technology gave certain carriers a real edge.
“The OTR market is almost decimated… brokers have taken over.”
This is a preview of the full interview.
We cut this right before the most important part, where Max explains what happens next in freight and what it means for brokers.
That part is not public.
The full interview is available to FreightCaviar Magazine subscribers inside our private Circle community.
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