FreightWaves 3PL Summit

Why brokers should care about nuclear verdicts and speed limiters

This fireside chat recap is from FreightWaves’ 3PL Summit on Wednesday.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Legal issues and regulations to watch for in 2024.

DETAILS: Transportation attorney Matthew Leffler dives into three hot topics affecting commercial trucking — nuclear verdicts, speed limiters and noncompete agreements — and how brokers should prepare for them.

KEY QUOTES FROM MATTHEW LEFFLER:

“If I’m the plaintiff’s attorney with someone involved in a catastrophic accident, I’m going after the motor...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/why-brokers-should-care-about-nuclear-verdicts-and-speed-limiters

3PL Summit: The Suez Canal crisis — WHAT THE TRUCK?!?

Dooner and The Dude are live from the FreightWaves 3PL summit with a round of industry expert “speed dating,” and they welcome guests from every corner of the freight world on this episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? The guys also discuss the big problem in the Suez Canal and what it means for freight delays globally.

First up is Larry Klein, vice president of logistics at Bringg, who talks about overcoming the challenges of resource shortages from drivers to trucks and trailers and overall capacity....

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/3pl-summit-the-suez-canal-crisis-what-the-truck

3PL Summit: Show carriers love in tight capacity market, execs say

A screen capture of a video chat between David Broering, NFI’s president of non-asset solutions, (left) and Mark Ford, BlueGrace Logistics’ chief operating officer, discuss how carrier capacity strategies during FreightWaves 3PL Summit.

This fireside chat recap is from FreightWaves’ 3PL Summit. 

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Strategies for navigating tight carrier capacity in 2021

DETAILS: It’s no secret that capacity is extremely tight in trucking, and there’s no sign that the situation will change anytime soon. With this in mind, executives from NFI and BlueGrace Logistics discuss ways for third-party logistics providers to ensure that they’re being a good partner to their carriers. 

SPEAKERS: David Broering, NFI’s president of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/3pl-summit-show-carriers-love-in-tight-capacity-market-execs-say

3PL Summit: Addressing the gap between contract and spot rates – #WithSONAR

This edition of #WithSONAR is a discussion that hosts Luke Falasca and Kyle Taylor held with Kyle Lintner, principal and managing director of K-Ratio, at the FreightWaves 3PL Summit.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: How a 3PL deals with a big difference between contract and spot rates

DETAILS: In a roaring, hot spot market like this, the gap between contract rates and spot rates can become enormous. The natural reaction is to reject the loads that are under contract, leading to the current high Outbound...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/3pl-summit-on-sonar-live-addressing-the-gap-between-contract-and-spot-rates

3PL Summit: How imports drive domestic supply chains

This fireside chat recap is from the FreightWaves 3PL Summit on Wednesday, March 24.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: How imports drive domestic supply chains.

DETAILS: Imports at the Port of Long Beach are at all-time highs. This fireside chat revolves around imports, congestion and how that flows into the domestic trucking market, as well as takes a look at inventory levels and semiconductors.

SPEAKERS: Ravi Dosanjh, head of strategic programming for Intel Corp., and Noel Hacegaba, deputy executive director...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-imports-drive-domestic-supply-chains

3PL Summit keynote: ‘Cat is out of the bag’ on supply chain importance

With barely six months behind her as president and CEO of the Transportation Intermediaries Association, Anne Reinke has a major goal in front of her: to “amplify” advocacy at TIA.

“The pandemic did a lot of things for a lot of people, but one of the unintended consequences is that it made the supply chain somehow known and understood better,” Reinke said during her keynote address at FreightWaves’ 3PL Summit on Wednesday.

“I think TIA and brokerage generally flew under the radar for a long time,...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/reinke-reveals-drive-to-expand-advocacy-for-brokers-and-3pls

Career Tracks: XPO appoints diversity officer

XPO Logistics has promoted LaQuenta Jacobs to the newly created position of chief diversity officer, effective Monday.

She will provide cultural leadership and strategic direction as an advocate of diversity, equity and inclusion at XPO and report directly to Chairman and CEO Brad Jacobs.

LaQuenta Jacobs has 23 years of experience leading organizational development initiatives for global public companies. She joined XPO in 2018 as the head of human resources for the company’s last-mile business...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/career-tracks-xpo-appoints-diversity-officer

FreightCasts Weekly Recap (7/20-7/26)

You can find every FreightWaves podcast conveniently in one feed via the free FreightCasts channel on freightwaves.com/podcasts, iTunes, Spotify or wherever podcasts are found. 

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The full list of FreightWaves media can be streamed via the FreightWavesTV app available for your smartphone, Apple TV, Roku and Fire TV. The app is free on all platforms.

Users of the FreightWavesTV app also have access to a full lineup of FreightWavesTV...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightcasts-weekly-recap-7-20-7-26

FreightWaves 3PL Summit: Will the trucking market bubble pop?

FreightWaves 3PL Summit: Will the trucking market bubble pop? (Photo: FreightWaves)

Craig Fuller, the founder and CEO of FreightWaves, and Zach Strickland, market analyst at FreightWaves, shared The Great Debate segment at the FreightWaves 3PL Summit. While Fuller came into the debate being bullish about the trucking market, Strickland took the other end, calling it a bearish market and that it was a bubble waiting to pop. 

Strickland opened with the Outbound Tender Volume Index (OTVI.USA), which showed an extremely anomalous behavior, rising 25% above previous year levels....

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-3pl-summit-will-the-trucking-market-bubble-pop

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