FreightWaves 3PL Summit

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,...

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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)

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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

3PL Summit: Power of partner ecosystems, network strategy – WHAT THE TRUCK?!? (with video)

On episode 200 of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Live from FreightWaves 3PL Summit set 1 Dooner and Michael Vincent welcome guests Josh Main, Strategic Alliances at Truckstop.com; Russ Felker, CTO at GlobalTranz; Prasad Gollapalli, CEO & Founder at Trucker Tools; Garrett  Wolfe, Vice President Of Product...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/3pl-summit-power-of-partner-ecosystems-network-strategy-what-the-truck-with-video

FreightWaves 3PL Summit: How a FedEx exec stepped up amid racial unrest (with video)

Ramona Hood, the president and CEO of FedEx Custom Critical (left) with La Toya Palmer, manager director for legal and human resources, during the FreightWaves 3pl Summit

Ramona Hood, the president and CEO of FedEx Custom Critical, assembled her management team after protests erupted following George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis in police custody. The first priority: Communicate with the fleet. The second: Respond to the larger movement fighting racial and social injustice.

For Hood, it was deeply personal. In 2020, she became the first Black woman to lead a FedEx division, and she has two adult sons. 

“As an African-American mother, as a leader of a company that...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-3pl-summit:-how-a-fedex-executive-took-the-lead-amid-us-unrest-(with-video)

FreightWaves 3PL Summit: Why you should be worried about freight markets (with video)

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Prepare yourself. There’s likely more coronavirus fallout to come in the freight markets.

That was the takeaway from Jason Miller, associate professor at the Michigan State University Eli Broad College of Business, who spoke with FreightWaves founder Craig Fuller during the FreightWaves 3PL Summit.

Fuller is very bullish. Miller, in contrast, sees a lot to be concerned about.

“From a carrier standpoint, it really comes down to what type of freight you’re hauling,” said Miller. “On the retail side...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-3pl-summit-why-you-should-be-worried-about-freight-markets-with-video

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