Sep 2025
Daimler Truck CEO: Electric Transition, Autonomous Vehicles and Cultural Change
How do you transform a 100-year-old trucking giant into a software-driven, zero-emission company? Karin Rådström, CEO of Daimler Truck, joins Nicolai Tangen to discuss the massive changes reshaping the trucking industry. They explore the shift from diesel to electric and hydrogen ... Show More
50m 32s
May 2022
This Is What It Takes to Win in the World of Freight Brokerage
The world of trucking is extraordinarily complex. There are an untold number of players that need to ship goods around the country. And there are tens of thousands of carriers, large and small, who own the trucks that move the goods. Standing in the middle are freight brokerages, ... Show More
57m 44s
Mar 2022
Wednesday 3/23/22 - Truck Driver Part I
<p>Trucker Dan joins the show to talk about a day in the life of a Truck Driver. We get into how he started driving for a career, the training involved to get licensed, the craziest stories he's witnessed on the road, and more.</p><br /><p>You can find every episode of this show ... Show More
33m 58s
0:55 Jason intros Lidia Yan 5:03 Lidia describes getting into the trucking industry and why NEXT focuses on "drayage" 13:29 How NEXT has revolutionized drayage shipping 18:22 What is a typical shipping broker's take rate 20:54 How does pricing work in the trucking industry? 27:28 How do trucking companies measure their driver's hours? 29:41 Issues within the ... Show More
<p>Autonomous trucking may sound like science fiction, but its impacts on transportation costs, the labor market and a breadth of industries may be closer than we think.</p><p><br></p><p>----- Transcript -----</p><p><strong>Adam Jonas </strong>Welcome to Thoughts on the Market. I ... Show More
