Trucking for Millennials

We're so thankful to have had so many excellent guests on Trucking For Millennials from around the industry. This episode is no different! Transport Topics reached out to us to have Features Editor and Co-Host of Road Signs podcast Michael Freeze!

We have a wide ranging conversation about his work at Transport Topics and the topics he's focused on covering this year like Equipment Fundamentals, Diversity in the workplace and much more!

There's many insights you can integrate into your business from this conversation and we hope you enjoy!

We put a call out to our listeners that we wanted to connect with more truck drivers within the millennial demographic and we're happy to say we're delivering on that promise!

This week enjoy this conversation with Alex Alvarado who left a sales position to jump in a truck and start hauling flatbed since July 15th 2020.

We talk to him about his experiences thus far, challenges he's faced, how he learns on the go, how he fuels himself on the road, the impact it's had on his family and his bank account, his vision for 2021 and much, much more!

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Join us as we have an excellent conversation with Demarco Thomas of Metromax Dispatch.

From Demarco's LinkedIn: Demarco Founded MetroMax Solutions to partner with various industries on business process and back office outsourcing services to propel their business success. Metromax Solutions strives to provide consulting and implementation services for small to medium size companies whom are interested in lowering their cost structure while bringing expertise where companies lack the resources. Our Outsourcing services enable our clients to focus on their core competencies, achieve operational excellence and outperform the competition.

We talk about how he got into trucking, how his finance background has assisted him in properly scaling up his business, how he outsources dispatch services to India, the power of outsourcing itself, his favorite books, and much, much more!

In this episode Michael and Aaron discuss Pete Buttigeg being named Transportation Secretary and an article that breaks down how 2021 is expected to be a "transitional" year.

Enjoy!

🎅We have a special Christmas Edition of the Trucking For Millennials Podcast for you available this week...🚚 🎄We decided to recap the year with a holiday spin 🎄 Enjoy a 2020 trucking edition of The Night Before Christmas... Written by me, narrated by Michael Clements, Jr. Merry Christmas!

The man behind who sparked dozens of podcasts, hundreds of shows, and tens of thousands of minutes for freight and logistics joins us for a special episode of Trucking For Millennials!

Timothy Dooner is is currently creating new podcast, radio, video, and multimedia content for FreightWaves. In under a year he built FreightCasts, the world's largest logistics and supply chain podcast network in media. Dooner is a 15-year industry veteran who has held directors positions in operations, sales, consulting, and marketing. He has worked with FedEx, Reebok, Adidas, L.L. Bean, Hasbro, Louis Vuitton, and many more high level clients across the full spectrum of the supply chain. An accomplished podcaster/producer/host, Dooner has launched over a dozen successful podcasts including the acclaimed supply chain & logistics shows: The Shipping Pod and Consulting Logistics. He is a host and producer on WHAT THE TRUCK?!? FreightWaves Insiders, Put That Coffee Down, Midday Market Update, FreightWaves Radio on SiriusXM, and you can wake up with his FreightWaves Morning Minute News Briefs on Alexa, and all podcast platforms. Dooner was also a featured speaker at TEDx Chattanooga.

We chat about his experience joining FreightWaves, how they've grown in a short amount of time, how he manages time, how he creates new shows and stays energized and much more!

If you're in sales within logistics, this is an episode you do not want to miss!

We had an inspiring conversation with Dan Deigan, who's been in logistics sales since 1994. He has scaled an asset company scale from 32 trucks to over 165, a 3PL to over 22 million in sales within two and a half years, and is now on a mission to help 10,000 logistics sales reps hit $1M in GP annually through sales training, coaching, and live events through his business High Performance Logistics Sales or HPLS.

He's put together a massive event specifically for the freight sales professionals who want to go to the next level in 2021. Get your FREE ticket here.

Watch the video for this episode here. Enjoy!

We had such a great conversation with Nicole Glenn of Candor Expedite!

She brings her 20 years of logistics expertise to the show and shares insights from her successful career.

We discuss how she got, why she stayed, how she started Candor Expedite, what they specialize in, where she sees the future of transportation becoming, leading a team and much, much more!

Be sure to connect with her on LInkedIn and watch her and her crews podcast, Hold My Beer, We're Talking Freight

In this episode we connect with Andrew Cox, Research Analyst with FreightWaves.

Andrew is extremely knowledgeable when it comes to the national freight market and has all the data to back it up through FreightWaves SONAR platform.

We brought him on to talk about the current freight market, why data analysis is important, how smaller trucking companies and freight brokerages can make better decisions through it, and much more!

Andrew even gives some of his projections about what to expect in the next few months and through 2021.

Be sure to sign up for his newsletter, Point of Sale, where he covers the logistics of e-commerce. https://www.freightwaves.com/communities

Christopher Morrell is the founder of The Morrell Law Firm, a Top 40 Under 40 lawer from National Trial Lawyer who pursues justice for people who are physically and emotionally injured.

We had him on the show to talk about his side of the court room to learn more about a trial lawyers' perspective when prosecuting trucking companies after an accident.

In this episode you'll learn about the legal process and what steps trucking companies should take so they protect themselves and the lives of others when transporting goods over the road.