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Dooner Show
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Dooner Show is Tim Dooner’s look at freight from both sides of the street. Three times a week he digs into the culture, the characters, and the news that actually move America’s supply chain: the wins, the wrecks, and the stuff polite industry media skips. New episodes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Episodes
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Is Peak Season About to Expose Everyone In Shipping? w/ Chad Carleton
Less than 65 days until Christmas! Peak season is coming, tariffs are reshaping inventory, theft is getting smarter, and ecommerce customers still expect everything yesterday. Chad Carleton of Good Company joins Tim Dooner and a 4th grader (Dooner Jr.) to get inside the fulfillment operation…
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The Ohio Trucking Scandal: Freight Fraud in the Motherland
Freight fraud is getting more sophisticated, and the consequences can be deadly. Victor Louis, founder of Load Secure, joins the Dooner Show following his recent Fox News appearance discussing trucking fraud in Ohio, chameleon carriers, and the vulnerabilities that leave our supply chains…
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Nikola’s Rise & Fall: Insider Tells What Really Happened w/ Jason Roycht
Nikola was supposed to change trucking forever. On Dooner Show, we’re sitting down with Jason Roycht, a longtime Nikola executive, to get the inside story of the company’s rise, the Trevor Milton scandal, and the collapse of a company that was trying to reinvent the big rig. What was real, what…
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Do a Father and Son Duo Have the Fix for Trucking GPS?
Most of us get in the car, punch an address into Google Maps, and go. But when you’re driving an 80,000-pound truck, a wrong turn can become a very big problem. Today, we’re talking to Robert Philips, he is a part of a father-and-son team building Highway Miles, a free GPS app designed…
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Getting Sober in Freight: Connor Miller & Tim Dooner Get Personal
EP21: The freight industry celebrates the hustle, the money and the wins. But what happens when addiction threatens to take it all away? Connor Miller and Tim Dooner get personal about their journeys through addiction and recovery, getting sober, and rebuilding their lives with new purpose. They...
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Brad Jacobs wins big on RXO bet and what midterms mean for freight w/ Andrew Donaldson
Andrew Donaldson has a pretty interesting history with Brad Jacobs: he worked at Con-way when Jacobs bought the company, and Andrew was fired in the aftermath. Now, more than a decade later, Jacobs’ RXO is being sold to C.H. Robinson for $5.8 billion. So what does Andrew make of the deal and the...
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The Insurance Behind Freight’s Biggest Disasters w/ Jerry Dooner + The Nergers
Four generations of freight experience collide on the Dooner Show as my dad, Jerry Dooner, joins me alongside Jim Nerger of Roanoke Insurance Group and his son Craig Nerger of Fortress Logistics Insurance. We go old school on maritime insurance, how the freight world has changed, and what today’s...
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WAR EAGLE! Inside Auburn’s Supply Chain Power House Program
Auburn’s supply chain program is producing the people who will actually run the supply chains of tomorrow. What’s it really like to be a student there—and why are students traveling to major industry conferences, getting global exposure and working directly with supply chain leaders? We’ll go...
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Tariffs, Classifications and the Chaos of Importing Right Now
Tariff turmoil has made importing more complicated, expensive and unpredictable, and customs brokers are sitting right in the middle of it. Cameron Bell and Ufuk Dede of Greenwich Mercantile join Dooner Show to talk about how AI can help importers navigate classification, duty savings, landed…
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The Yard Is Under Attack: AI, Autonomy & the New Cargo Theft War
The yard may be the most important part of the supply chain that nobody talks about. Matt Yearling, CEO of YMX Logistics, joins Dooner Show to talk autonomous yard trucks, AI, safety, the evolution beyond traditional YMS platforms and why the yard is becoming a massive technology and operational...
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What REALLY Happens Inside a Trailer During Transit
What happens when a perfectly loaded trailer turns into a freight disaster? Krista Guillory and Paul Preston of Kick Stops join Dooner Show to break down shifting pallets, bad load patterns, trailer-loading disasters, and the hidden forces beating up your freight in transit. We get into why Kick...
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AI Bots Suck, $7 Diesel & the Fight for Survival in Freight
AI is coming for freight brokerage but is it actually making the industry better? Eric Williams, CEO and co-founder of Beagl AI, joins Tim Dooner on Dooner Show to dig into the good, bad and downright annoying sides of AI in freight. We get into the explosion of brokerage voice bots, whether...
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What Is Every Gallon of Diesel REALLY Costing Your Fleet?
Diesel prices are crushing trucking and you can’t control the price of fuel. But you can control what happens to every gallon after you buy it. Kenneth Eggen joins Dooner Show to dig into fuel efficiency, fleet maintenance and the data that can reveal whether a fleet is healthy or quietly…
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The Legal Loophole That Could Bring Back Old-School Trucks
Could we legally build a brand-new 1999 Peterbilt today? Roleigh Martin joins Dooner to dig into expired patents, trucking regulations and whether old-school truck designs could legally make a comeback. We get into what happens when truck patents expire, which regulations actually stand in the…
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Why does freight continue to leave women off the stage? w/ Jennifer Morris
Jennifer Morris of Ship Happens joins Dooner Show to call bullshit on some of the things happening in freight: from conferences booking zero women speakers to the everyday nonsense women encounter in the industry. Thank you to our sponsors: Load Secure:https://loadsecure.com/ Whimsy Intermodal:...
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4,000 Trees, One Supply Chain: The Wild Business of Maple Syrup | Dooner Show
Mark and Joanna Russell of Swiss Mountain Farms join the Dooner Show to pull back the curtain on one of the strangest supply chains in food: maple syrup. From 50 taps to nearly 4,000 in just a few years, the Russells have turned a hobby into a growing farm business. We get into the journey from...
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So, You Want to Be a Supply Chain Influencer. Now What? w/ Nathan Chaney
Nathan Chaney turned a career in freight into something much bigger: Supply Chaney, a growing media, marketing, events and community business built around connecting people and ideas across the supply chain. On this episode of Dooner Show, Nathan and Dooner get into the changing world of...
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How a Truck Driver Built a Multi-Million Follower Media Empire w/ Larry Cothran
Larry Cothran went from behind the wheel to building a massive trucking audience, with more than 100,000 followers and major brand partnerships all by being himself. On Dooner Show, Larry Cothran and Tim Dooner talk trucking, comedy, social media, the business of being a creator, and what new...
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Flock for freight, Amazon Wrecks, MOTUS Still Broken, CDL School Shut Down, w/ Victor Louis
Victor Louis of Load Secure joins the Dooner Show for a wide-ranging conversation about trucking’s growing safety, surveillance and regulatory headaches. Is GenLogs essentially Flock cameras for freight? We dig into how truck-tracking data is being collected, how it can be used to map lanes and...
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The Hidden Nightmare of Loading Concert Trucks (And the Freight Fix It Created) w/ Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis has spent his career behind the scenes of live music: touring with artists, running audio, and figuring out how to move an insane amount of gear from one venue to the next. Now he’s bringing that same problem-solving mindset to freight with Truck Packer, a technology platform…
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A 350-Year-Old Chocolate Company vs the Halloween Supply Chain w/ Dan Abel Jr.
Dan Abel Jr., Chief Chocolate Officer of Bissinger’s and Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Company, grew up in his parents’ St. Louis candy kitchen, went off to college, and came home to a $10-an-hour job. In 2019 his family bought Bissinger’s, a chocolatier that traces to Paris in 1668, King Louis...
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Atomic Bubbles: Meet the man who runs America’s bubble supply chain w/ John Reider
John Reider, the “Bubble Man” behind Atomic Bubbles, comes on the Dooner Show to talk origin story, formula, testing, factory, shipping, and why dogs lose their minds over bacon-scented bubbles. John started as an aircraft engineer. Twenty-plus years ago he bought out the inventor of Tekno…
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How Trade Wars Hit Canadian Truck Builder Edison Motors In The Big D w/ Chace Barber
Chace Barber started Edison Motors because he thought the trucking industry’s approach to electric trucks was missing the point. Instead of trying to build a battery-electric truck that requires massive charging infrastructure, Edison is developing diesel-electric hybrid trucks designed for the...
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Hoffa, the ICC, and Why Trucking Still Looks Like This w/ Stephen Ruhe
On this episode of Dooner Show, Tim Dooner sits down with Stephen Ruhe: freight broker, Navy vet, third-generation trucking guy, and the force behind Semi Historic. Everybody’s got a villain for modern trucking. Brokers. ELDs. Mega carriers. 1980. Stephen’s take is sharper than that. The…
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Blood, guts, and $2 billion of freight spend | Dooner Show
Trent Zuberi doesn’t just talk logistics, he lives at the intersection of thrash metal stages, indie wrestling rings, and high-stakes supply chain operations. Frontman and bassist for Chicago’s HEMI (over 20 years of heavy/thrash/power metal, including tracks licensed by IMPACT Wrestling),...
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Dooner Show is Tim Dooner’s look at freight from both sides of the street. Three times a week he digs into the culture, the characters, and the news that actually move America’s supply chain: the wins, the wrecks, and the stuff polite industry media skips. New episodes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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