TT RoadSigns Podcast

You can attract potential employees by increasing pay, right? It's not always that easy. While fleet managers are offering higher pay rates, both new and experienced drivers want quality equipment and places to park. In this episode, we ask, how can fleet managers make their drivers feel more appreciated? And what else can fleets do to recruit and retain quality talent? To get answers, host Michael Freeze talks with founder and CEO of DriverReach, Jeremy Reymer. Tune in.

For more information visit: https://roadsigns.ttnews.com/episodes/how-much-of-an-impact-does-driver-pay-have-in-finding-new-and-experienced-drivers/

Follow the RoadSigns:

Twitter: @ttroadsigns

LinkedIn: RoadSignspodcast

Instagram: @roadsignspodcast

Join RoadSigns mailing list: roadsigns.ttnews.com/join-the-mailing-list/

For sponsorship and guest inquires please visit: https://roadsigns.ttnews.com/roadsigns-contact/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The internet of things has bound fleets and their trucks together in new ways — tying fleets to shippers and shippers to loads and loads to trucks. We're no longer talking about the type of data or, even the potential of data. We've marched into a new stasis – one of action. In this episode, we ask, how do company leaders activate strong data gathering and analytics programs? What are the next-step actions? And who in the organization is best positioned to manage this process? Host Seth Clevenger seeks a plan of action with two experts of fleet-management technology, Andrew Johnson, chief marketing officer at PrePass Safety Alliance and Chris Orban, vice president of data science at Trimble Transportation. Tune in.

For more information visit: https://roadsigns.ttnews.com/episodes/how-data-science-can-make-trucking-smarter-and-safer/

Follow the RoadSigns:

Twitter: @ttroadsigns

LinkedIn: RoadSignspodcast

Instagram: @roadsignspodcast

Join RoadSigns mailing list: roadsigns.ttnews.com/join-the-mailing-list/

For sponsorship and guest inquires please visit: https://roadsigns.ttnews.com/roadsigns-contact/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Could this be the trucking industry’s roaring ‘20s? Business is booming - thanks, in part, to a huge slew of new, innovative technologies finally coming online. Cold storage. Autonomous. Electric. Machine Learning. Once the key descriptors associated with a far-off future have, in six months, become part integral to this phenomenal success. In this episode, we analyze this boom in all of its parts. And, along with host Mike Freeze, we begin to wonder what’s next? Will the boom continue? Tune in to see what's in store for the rest of 2021.

For more information visit: https://roadsigns.ttnews.com/episodes/tire-inflation-technology-tpms-or-atis/

Follow the RoadSigns:

Twitter: @ttroadsigns

LinkedIn: RoadSignspodcast

Instagram: @roadsignspodcast

Join RoadSigns mailing list: roadsigns.ttnews.com/join-the-mailing-list/

For sponsorship and guest inquires please visit: https://roadsigns.ttnews.com/roadsigns-contact/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How do you care for your tires? In this episode, host Michael Freeze sets out to answer tire inflation questions all fleet owners should be asking to protect their tires and, essentially, their business. Like, what factors should fleets consider when investing in systems like tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) and automatic tire inflation systems (ATIS)? And where do these systems take the industry in the future, especially when talking about maintenance and fuel economy? To get answers we bring in Matt Wilson, General Manager of the Controls Business Unit & Trailer Commercial Vehicle Systems for Hendrickson, the leading global manufacturer and supplier of medium and heavy-duty tire pressure control systems. Tune in.

For more information visit: https://roadsigns.ttnews.com/episodes/tire-inflation-technology-tpms-or-atis/

Follow the RoadSigns:

Twitter: @ttroadsigns

LinkedIn: RoadSignspodcast

Instagram: @roadsignspodcast

Join RoadSigns mailing list: roadsigns.ttnews.com/join-the-mailing-list/

For sponsorship and guest inquires please visit: https://roadsigns.ttnews.com/roadsigns-contact/

This episode is brought to you by Penske: gopenske.com

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Over the past 15 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has altered our way of life in many ways. Rather than visiting the mall or brick-and-mortar retail stores, consumers have turned instead to online shopping. This shift toward e-commerce has created new buying habits, as well as new challenges for the supply chain. In this episode, we explore these changing habits and how they are altering the logistics business with a guest who is right in the middle of this field. Join host Seth Clevenger as he gets the 411 on e-commerce fulfillment from Mark Manduca, chief investment officer for XPO's contract logistics segment, which will soon become a standalone company, GXO. Will e-commerce growth continue as we recover from the pandemic and people become increasingly comfortable shopping in person again? If so, how are supply chains changing to meet this demand? Tune in to find out.

For more information visit: https://roadsigns.ttnews.com/episodes/how-is-the-e-commerce-boom-reshaping-logistics/

Follow the RoadSigns:

Twitter: @ttroadsigns

LinkedIn: RoadSignspodcast

Instagram: @roadsignspodcast

Join RoadSigns mailing list: roadsigns.ttnews.com/join-the-mailing-list/

For sponsorship and guest inquires please visit: https://roadsigns.ttnews.com/roadsigns-contact/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On May 25, 2021, five individuals pled guilty to staging two accidents in New Orleans with tractor-trailers in 2017, while obtaining fraudulent financial settlements totaling more than $282,000. Such settlements are crushing for businesses, and have carried monetary burden. The threat to businesses has increased, as those implicated faced questions about safety and spiked insurance rates. In this episode we ask, is the situation surrounding fraudulent settlements getting worse or better in 2021? To get answers, host Michael Freeze talks with Transport Topics government reporters, Eric Miller and Eleanor Lamb about what industry leaders are doing to combat lawsuit abuse. Tune in.

For more information visit: https://roadsigns.ttnews.com/episodes/how-is-the-trucking-industry-approaching-the-continual-issue-of-truck-parking/

Follow the RoadSigns:

Twitter: @ttroadsigns

LinkedIn: RoadSignspodcast

Instagram: @roadsignspodcast

Join RoadSigns mailing list: roadsigns.ttnews.com/join-the-mailing-list/

For sponsorship and guest inquires please visit: https://roadsigns.ttnews.com/roadsigns-contact/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The story of a crowded parking lot: slow stops, the lack of reserved spots, and the race to an empty space. We've all been there, but what if the lack of a parking spot had an effect on how well you did your job? Or, even made it hard for you to fill basic human needs - like eating or sleeping? When the pandemic started, drivers faced crowded parking lots, closed rest areas, and minimal road side support. And now, almost a year and a half later, they still face the fear of not finding a place to park, which means having no place to rest. In this episode, host Michael Freeze seeks answers to this wearying question from those on the forefront of research and legislative action.

For more information visit: https://roadsigns.ttnews.com/episodes/how-is-the-trucking-industry-approaching-the-continual-issue-of-truck-parking/

Follow the RoadSigns:

Twitter: @ttroadsigns

LinkedIn: RoadSignspodcast

Instagram: @roadsignspodcast

Join RoadSigns mailing list: roadsigns.ttnews.com/join-the-mailing-list/

For sponsorship and guest inquires please visit: https://roadsigns.ttnews.com/roadsigns-contact/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Next-level technologies hold the potential to enhance safety and efficiency in the transportation industry, but it takes a lot of work behind the scenes to advance these ideas from concept to reality. In many cases, that process involves industrialists, entrepreneurs and leading university researchers coming together to rethink common practices and put emerging technologies to the test. At the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon, principal project scientist Christoph Mertz cultivates predictive road maintenance technology to ease the pain of potholes and basic infrastructure roadblocks. Meanwhile, at the University of Michigan, Huei Peng leads the MCity consortium to support the development of automated and connected vehicle technology. Tune in to find out how they are paving the way for the technologies of the future.

For more information visit: https://roadsigns.ttnews.com/episodes/how-is-university-research-advancing-transportation-technology/

Follow the RoadSigns:

Twitter: @ttroadsigns

LinkedIn: RoadSignspodcast

Instagram: @roadsignspodcast

Join RoadSigns mailing list: roadsigns.ttnews.com/join-the-mailing-list/

For sponsorship and guest inquires please visit: https://roadsigns.ttnews.com/roadsigns-contact/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The year is 2039. Zero-emission, electric heavy-duty trucks roll past you on the highway. Charging ports are now commonplace at terminals and truck stops. Diesel powered vehicles are becoming a thing of the past. You sit and wonder: how did we get here?

The answer is complex and involves the convergence of several key factors, including a society-wide push to improve environmental sustainability, major advances in electric-vehicle technology, fleet participation in vehicle testing and development, broad investments in charging infrastructure and a holistic approach to the entire electric ecosystem that captured imaginations at the right time.

Here, in 2021, Daimler Trucks North America's head of eMobility speaks to RoadSigns. Tune in.

For more information visit: https://roadsigns.ttnews.com/episodes/electric-trucks-are-here-but-how-quickly-will-they-take-off/

This episode is sponsored by Penske: https://www.gopenske.com/

Follow the RoadSigns:

Twitter: @ttroadsigns

LinkedIn: RoadSignspodcast

Instagram: @roadsignspodcast

Join RoadSigns mailing list: roadsigns.ttnews.com/join-the-mailing-list/

For sponsorship and guest inquires please visit: https://roadsigns.ttnews.com/roadsigns-contact/

Are you an equipment or fleet maintenance expert interested in electric trucks? We need your help! Transport Topics' Equipment & Maintenance Update is going through some changes and we want to invite input from listeners like you. And, while the knowledge and expertise will stay the same, we want to pull it out from the pages of the weekly edition and make it a standalone resource for fleet maintenance experts. So, we're wondering, how can we build the best resource for you? To share your insight, complete the survey at ttn.ws/equipment01

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Have you been imagining a driverless future where the machines do all the work and humans watch? You might be in for a surprise. Even at Level 4 autonomy, self-driving trucks will have technical limitations. They will be designed for specific applications that are best suited to automation. They’ll also require industry buy-in and public acceptance. In this episode, we ask how technology developers are clearing those hurdles to make autonomous trucking a reality.

And how might the trucking industry improve safety and efficiency by combining automation and human labor in the future? To find out, we bring in Boris Sofman, head of engineering for the autonomous trucking program at Waymo. Tune in and learn more about the road ahead for self-driving trucks.

For more information visit: https://roadsigns.ttnews.com/what-will-it-take-to-make-autonomous-trucking-a-reality/

Follow the RoadSigns:

Twitter: @ttroadsigns

LinkedIn: RoadSignspodcast

Instagram: @roadsignspodcast

Join RoadSigns mailing list: roadsigns.ttnews.com/join-the-mailing-list/

For sponsorship and guest inquires please visit: https://roadsigns.ttnews.com/roadsigns-contact/

Can't get enough audio? Try our micropodcast, in just one minute you can hear the biggest trucking headlines of the day with Transport Topics daily briefing: https://www.ttnews.com/listen?utm_source=roadsigns&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=daily-briefing-2021

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices