Freight media’s evolving landscape on display at F3
The changing freight media landscape was on full display at the F3: Future of Freight Festival last week in Chattanooga Tennessee, as influencers, salespeople, presenters and executives intermingled during and after the events. One topic discussed is the changing way media is being consumed and how traditional legacy media outlets are responding to tech-savvy upstarts. While at the event, I noted that for...
Stephens investment conference trucking equipment highlights
(Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)Supply chain challenges were the main focus at the Stephens annual investment conference earlier this month in Nashville, Tennessee. Executives said driver recruiting and broader supply chain bottlenecks were slightly easing, but purchasing and procuring equipment has gotten notably tougher.
Lack of trailers becoming new driver shortage:
Supply headwinds facing the trucking industry were front and center at an investor conference on Wednesday and Thursday. While executives said driver recruiting and broader supply chain bottlenecks are ever so slightly easing, the procurement of equipment has gotten tougher.
“I would predict at this juncture, in our looking out at the trailer OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) and the tractor OEMs, that it could even be more difficult in 2022 on production and delivery than it was in 2021,”...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/whats-tougher-finding-drivers-or-trailers
Reliance Partners, the Chattanooga-based insurance agency serving the commercial transportation and trucking industries, announced Monday that Thom Albrecht has joined the company as chief financial officer and chief revenue officer.
Prior to joining Reliance Partners, Albrecht was a transportation equities analyst and investment banker for nearly 30 years at several banks, including BB&T and Stephens. In October 2017, he joined Celadon Group to help Paul Svindland attempt a turnaround, serving...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/albrecht-joins-reliance-partners-as-cfo