Podcasts about transport topics

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers the latest test for oil traders, the Trump administration relaxing the rules for self-driving car deployment, and the impact of tariffs on Port of Los Angeles imports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers a rollback of California emissions rules, plans for a new freight crossing connecting the U.S. and Mexico, and President Donald Trump's latest intentions for universal tariffs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers another win, for now, for President Donald Trump's tariff policies, a deal struck between the U.S. and China, and a self-driving truck developer looking to go public. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers a deal between Toyota and Daimler Truck, an acquisition in the trucking technology field, and the expanding universe of greener TRUs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In “2025's Top 100 3PLs: How Logistics Giants are Confronting Uncertainty”, Joe Lynch and Seth Clevenger, Managing Editor of Features and Multimedia at Transport Topics, discuss the Top 100 logistics companies, 2024 performance, changes to the list, and the trends impacting the industry.  About Seth Clevenger Seth Clevenger is managing editor of features and multimedia at Transport Topics. He plans, writes and edits news features for Transport Topics' weekly newspaper, supplemental publications and TTNews.com. He also creates video and audio content for Transport Topics' webcasts, podcasts and radio programming. Clevenger, who joined TT in 2011, covers the latest industry news with a special focus on transportation technology, including automated vehicles and driver-assist systems, the latest developments in trucking equipment, transportation management software, telematics and mobile communications, data analytics, routing and navigation software, onboard video and more. Clevenger, currently based in Alexandria, Va., is a native of northwest Ohio. He is a 2005 graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. About Transport Topics Since 1935, Transport Topics has been the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. When it comes to major issues, industry events, and new developments, TT journalists get the story first and get it right, keeping readers informed about all aspects of trucking industry and helping them stay ready for what's to come. RoadSigns A Transport Topics Podcast Born in 2018, RoadSigns started in an empty office. Now, it's grown into a full-fledged studio featuring comprehensive topics and accomplished guests. Aptly named RoadSigns because road signs offer one a look ahead while moving. They serve as the first indicator of something changing or something new. Beyond that, they signal the chance to pivot or change course – and find new direction. The concept is simple: This podcast seeks to help people in a fast-moving industry recognize the signs around them and chart new courses. Key Takeaways: 2025's Top 100 3PLs: How Logistics Giants are Confronting Uncertainty In “2025's Top 100 3PLs: How Logistics Giants are Confronting Uncertainty”, Joe Lynch and Seth Clevenger, talk about Transport Topics annual Top 100 Logistics Companies feature. Authoritative Source for Industry News: Transport Topics has been a leading news source for the trucking and freight transportation industry since 1935, providing essential information for decision-making across the logistics and supply chain sectors. Comprehensive Logistics Rankings: The annual Top 100 Logistics Companies list is a definitive ranking of the largest logistics firms in North America, primarily based on annual gross revenue, offering a crucial industry benchmark. Detailed Company Profiles: Beyond just rankings, the feature provides in-depth information for each company, including service descriptions, key executive names, ownership types, and data on employee numbers. Segmented Industry Insights: The Top 100 feature breaks down the logistics landscape into various sectors, such as freight brokerage, dry storage warehousing, refrigerated warehousing, dedicated contract carriage, airfreight, and ocean freight. Analysis of Industry Trends: The feature often includes articles and analysis on key trends and challenges facing logistics companies, such as freight market conditions, supply chain resilience, emerging technologies like AI, and global trade dynamics. Interactive and Multimedia Content: Transport Topics enhances the Top 100 experience with interactive maps showing company headquarters and multimedia content, including podcasts and webcasts, to provide a richer understanding of the industry. Learn More About 2025's Top 100 3PLs: How Logistics Giants are Confronting Uncertainty Seth on LinkedIn Transport Topicst | LinkedIn Transport Topics Road Signs Podcast 2025 Top 100 Logistics | Transport Topics The Top 100 Logistics Companies with Seth Clevenger The Logistics of Logistics Podcast If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a positive review, subscribe, and share it with your friends and colleagues. The Logistics of Logistics Podcast: Google, Apple, Castbox, Spotify, Stitcher, PlayerFM, Tunein, Podbean, Owltail, Libsyn, Overcast Check out The Logistics of Logistics on Youtube

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers a new report from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, a cyberattack on a large grocery carrier, and expansion of a service by Ryder and a software company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers partial tariff cost pass-through by businesses, slowing U.S. job growth, and Walmart's drone delivery expansion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers English-language enforcement for truck drivers, rising sophistication in cargo theft, and stalled U.S.-China trade talks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers North American steel tariff tensions, tighter fleet margins in 2025, and new protections against moving fraud. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers Trump's latest steel and aluminum tariff hike, Nikola's asset sale process, and continued contraction in U.S. manufacturing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers U.S.-China tensions over rare earth exports, Canada's push for new trade infrastructure, and a legal challenge to Trump's Liberation Day tariffs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers USDOT proposing to slash or amend certain trucking regulations — but hitting the pause button on a reduction in the department's workforce — and recent developments regarding Lego's American supply chain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers the back and forth on President Donald Trump's tariffs, a law addressing certain issues in Oregon's trucking industry, and a new tool Penske Truck Leasing is offering to help carriers maximize their rolling stock. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers a final assessment on an investigation into imported container chassis from Vietnam, Tesla's robotaxi rollout, and the national average diesel price. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers the rough first quarter for truck manufacturers, one market benefiting from that volatility, and the troubled military Global Household Goods moving contract. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers tariff threats against the EU, more on the intersection of technology and trucking, and a telematics firm teaming up with an EV manufacturer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers fees on electric and hybrid vehicles, two states halting zero-emission truck mandates and trailer orders in April. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers the push to rescind worker classification guidance from the Biden era, DOT mandating English proficiency for truck drivers, and a spike in freight bookings from China to the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers the leadership team for FedEx Freight, American Trucking Associations' freight report for April and a rise in the cost of diesel fuel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers an acquisition by Kenan Advantage Group, a major commerce conference near Washington, D.C., and conflicting reports on Canadian tariffs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers the sale of more Yellow terminals, Oregon delaying enforcement of the Advanced Clean Trucks Rule, and an investor group in Canada proposing to buy bankrupt Lion Electric. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers Walmart raising prices, the FHWA nominee's appearance at a Senate hearing and the IEA's report on global oil demand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers medium-duty truck sales, FMCSA action on eight ELDs and USDOT finalizing 76 infrastructure grants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers CVSA's recommendation on driver personal conveyance time, Class 8 retail sales in April and Landstar's first-quarter earnings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers General Motors hiring a former Tesla and Aurora officer, a record in April for customs revenue collections due to tariffs, and moves in Congress to repeal California laws to encourage EV adoption. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers a lawsuit against the Federal Highway Administration, concerns about the Global Household Goods contract and the effect of tariffs on China's exports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How does the changing market condition affect M&A in freight? Find out with our returning guest, Spencer Tenney from Tenney Group!   Here's What to Learn From This Episode: M&A Market Trends: Current market volatility affecting M&A in freight; mixed industry responses—some waiting, others pursuing acquisitions. Tariffs and uncertainty driving cautious capital allocation decisions. Buy vs. Build Decisions: Companies often prefer M&A to build capabilities like AI due to tight margins and market challenges. Increased diligence in capital allocation noted as firms manage risk, with a cultural inclination towards acquisition over development. Cash Flow & Consolidation: Small transport businesses financially fragile, most operate month-to-month. Rising bankruptcies from cash flow issues. Industry consolidation growing as small operators exit or merge for increased profitability, driven by sustainability and risk factors.   About Spencer Tenney Spencer Tenney is President and CEO of the Tenney Group, a merger acquisition advisory firm dedicated to the transportation industry since 1973. The Tenney family has been serving the transportation industry for three generations. Spencer is a graduate of the University of Texas in Austin, He is also the only Certified Merger & Acquisition Advisor (CM&AA) in North America that is dedicated exclusively to the transportation industry. Spencer and his team have closed hundreds of transportation business sales across the United States. Tenney Group clients are companies in the trucking, logistics, passenger transportation industries with annual revenues of 20M - 300M. Spencer's articles have been featured in Fleet Owner, Transport Topics, School Bus Fleet and many other industry publications. He is a sought-after speaker at national and state industry trade shows and currently serves as Chair of the American Trucking Association's M&A Task Force. Spencer and his wife Lauren reside outside of Nashville in Franklin, Tennessee. He enjoys songwriting and is actively involved in the Hope Clinic, a faith-based organization that equips women, men, and families to make healthy choices regarding unplanned pregnancies, depression, & addictions. He is also the founder of "Tuesdays with Tenney Group, a networking group designed to enrich relationships and business opportunities for Historic Downtown Franklin, TN professionals.   Connect with Spencer Website: https://www.thetenneygroup.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/spencertenney/  

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers a trade agreement with Britain, a shipping giant's outlook on the global container market, and Class 8 truck orders in April. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers the independent-contractor rule, Shipping routes between the U.S. and China, and a candidate to head the U.S. Postal Service. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers an end to limits on emissions from tires, the U.S. trade deficit and Cummins' quarterly financial report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers another upcoming increase in oil production by OPEC+, the new-truck excise tax, and a new offering coming from Stellantis' Ram brand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers the end of the de minimis exemption for imported goods, tariff-related disruptions at West Coast ports, and the DOE's rollback of green energy loans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers the launch of Aurora's driverless trucking service, a House vote to overturn California's gas car ban, and March cargo growth at U.S. ports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers renewed calls for federal action on cargo theft, murder charges in a staged truck crash scheme, and layoffs at ADM's global commodity desk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers Trump's English-language rule order for truckers, UPS job cuts, and Amazon's denial of tariff label plans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers the impact of President Donald Trump's China tariffs on supply chains, growing uncertainty in trucking's energy transition, and UPS exploring humanoid robots with Figure AI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers complaints from U.S.-based chassis manufacturers, a new chief financial officer for Continental and CDL training grants in Wisconsin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers potential tariffs on imported trucks and truck parts, a UPS acquisition, and two states seeking to enforce requirements that truck drivers be proficient in the English language. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers layoffs by Volvo Group, tariff measures against China and trailer orders for March. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers the United States-China trade war, a conference hosted by trucking technology provider Motive, and the latest American Trucking Associations tonnage report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers DHL stopping deliveries to North America of some parcels, DOT's repeal of some emissions rules, and results of a survey of Canadian trucking executives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers the fate of the Drug Testing Advisory Board, a freight broker survey of top issues, and Torc Robotics' latest autonomous testing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers Stonepeak's acquisition of Dupre Logistics, Marten Transport's Q1 earnings and DOT's grant to build a port of entry facility along the San Diego-Baja California border. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers two states suspending enforcement of heavy truck emissions laws, C.H. Robinson expanding its use of AI agents, and elected officials urging EPA to support the American biofuel industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers medium-duty truck sales, cargo theft legislation and rising fuel taxes in Mississippi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers business moves at Kodiak, a federal mandate that affects CDL holders and FMCSA's action that affects some CDL holders in the Houston area. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers freight fraud, Class 8 retail truck sales in March and Kenworth tapping the brakes on the production of an alternative-fuel truck. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers a potential cost increase for Class 8 trucks, ATA outlining three key industry priorities and the state of the third-party logistics sector. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers President Donald Trump's tariffs pause, Mack Trucks' new Class 8 model and an acquisition in the cold storage logistics space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transport Topics is the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Today's briefing covers President Donald Trump's tariffs, congestion pricing in New York City and new delivery options for UPS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices