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Announcing the Truck Parking Club Park and Post Contest This is a month-long content contest we are running! The winner, picked on January 31st, will get $1 cash for every location we have live on that day. How to enter: - Post a piece of original trucking content (photo or video) from your personal X, Facebook, Tiktok, Instagram, or LinkedIn account - Tag Truck Parking Club account and use #truckparkingclub in the post During the month, we will reshare content that we like!

GM and merry Christmas Eve We at Truck Parking Club are looking for a special someone to join our team to fill a very important role If you've worked in carrier sales, customer sales, carrier operations, or a similar role and are a quick learner looking to join a fast growing team please slide into my DMs

Trailers as the catalyst to growth. This is one of my favorite takeaways from my conversation with Shannon Breen of FreightVana. Not only has FreightVana built one of the most existing power-only trailer programs in the US, their partnership with Loadsmith highlights just how committed they are to growing that offering. Look, some of the best shippers in the world require drop trailers. With FreightVana shippers & motor carriers are unlocking some cool solutions. I love connected trailers!

Happy Robot’s carrier sales rep is the tip of the iceberg for AI disprupting freight brokerages and logistics providers GPT was trained on 32,000 H100 Chips from NVIDIA Grok 3 is being trained on 100,000 H200 chips That releases in February The next model will be Claude or Gemini or GPT trained on 200,000 chips then Grok on 1,000,000 H300’s or something similar And so on and so on AI will replace carrier sales reps at scale It will replace offshore staffing at scale Any job that can be automated (quoting, check calls, invoicing, etc) will be automated So the only IP that brokerages will have is cusomter sales/ GTM and leadership This might not happen in 1-2 years but in 10 years this post will have underestimated the capability and disruption by AI in logistics Each new AI model seems to be an order if magnitude better than the last The arms race of our generation!

I was joined by Matthew Leffler for this weeks edition of Let's Talk Logistics It. Was. Epic. This clip is just a teaser of the great conversation we had, but it's a HUGE story in the freight agent world Worldwide Express, Global Tranz, and Freight Essentials Matthew breaks down the allegations and how this came to light via a RICO complaint This case is nightmare fuel for current freight agents and franchise owners at the Worldwide Express Group aka Global Tranz, WWE, and Unishippers... Full episode will be linked below We discuss Private Equity, Venture Capital, EBITDA, The looming port strike, Privatizing the USPS, and a we pontificate about AI in Logistics (Happy Robot etc.) Don't miss this one! #letstalklogistics

FreightVana & the power-only play. If you know anything about me, it's that I love trailers. Well, my good friend, Shannon Breen of FreightVana fame, shares this passion. Let's just say he knows a thing or two about those beautiful boxes that keep America moving. Here's a clip from our latest conversation that discusses Shannon's time at Knight-Swift Transportation & what drove him to create what has become one of the fastest growing logistics companies in the industry.

You mean Tristan Bordallo of Iamfr8 Inc is coming on The Armchair Attorney® Podcast? Now that's exciting!

The Announcement.

DAT Freight & Analytics acquires Trucker Tools! Now that's news! https://lnkd.in/gV9rx5tu

When I was in sales for ABF Freight / ArcBest part of my job was handling rate increases and tariff negotiations. I learned a lot about ORs, and even my favorite - FAORs. But had we not also sold asset business I doubt I would ever have learned much about that. For brokers and for shippers it’s extremely important to educate yourself on an asset carriers operational costs. Understand how they view profitability, at least at a high level. Matthew Leffler and Graham Gonzales joined me on episode 44 of the Meet Me For Coffee Podcast a few weeks ago, and a lot of great insights were shared. It would be a great place to start if you think you have more to learn about both asset and brokerage operational costs. #logistics #trucking #freight #operations #or #transportation