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Freightonomics — 253 episodes

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1

Shipper perspective

2

Still going

3

LTL’s big month

4

Continuous pressure

5

Level of concern

6

The State of Freight Webinar: From Roadcheck Week to Summer 2026 Outlook

7

Transportation market uncoils

8

The State of Freight Webinar: Fuel, Friction, and the Road Ahead

9

Are COVID-era extremes returning?

10

Higher for longer

11

The State of Freight: Global Disruption and the Freight Market Reset

12

Fog of war

13

Tariffs, Trade, and Trucking Chaos

14

The State of Freight: Winter Disruptions and a Shifting Market

15

So much for the offseason

16

Winter is here

17

The State of Freight: Mapping the 2026 Freight Landscape

18

New year, no inventory

19

The State of Freight: A Look Back at 2025

20

Freight market wrapped

21

The State of Freight: Navigating Trade & Implications of Government Shutdown

22

Thanksgiving, shmanksgiving

23

Shutdowns and showdowns

24

Freight Market vs. Bulk Market: Spot Rates, Trade Wars, & 2026 Outlook

25

What the heck is going on?

26

Irrational exuberance

27

The State of Freight: Peak Season Expectations and Market Wild Cards

28

Politics and religion

29

State of Freight Webinar | August 21, 2025

30

Questionable data

31

To Have or Have Not

32

2nd half outlook for 2025

33

The cost of inventory

34

Hanging in the balance

35

May-cember

36

The North American tariff special

37

Balancing branches

38

All out of love

39

Uncertainty is certain in 2025

40

Containing the containers

41

Calmer seas

42

Transportation trends to watch in 2025

43

Let’s circle back on that

44

Drowsiness

45

Election takes for transportation

46

Vulnerability

47

Great quarter guys?

48

Seasonality’s return

49

The cost of catastrophe

50

ILA strike impacts

51

Chaos it is Not

52

The cost of appreciation

53

What, me worry?

54

Everything in moderation

55

Ongoing challenges

56

Oh Canada

57

Striking a deal

58

Correction

59

Looking to podium

60

The ROI of safety

61

Prime time

62

Second half shift

63

Weather ready

64

2nd Half Expectations

65

Waiting game

66

Hopium abounds

67

Checking in

68

Losing confidence

69

Governance

70

Playing the turn

71

Eclipsing Inflation

72

Counting trucks

73

Collapse

74

Holding Pattern

75

Signs of Spring

76

Rules, rules, and more rules

77

Too early to be optimistic?

78

Playing the long game

79

Transportation’s pricing problem

80

Winter

81

New Year Crap - Outlook

82

Year in Review 2023

83

Rough Seas

84

All I want for Christmas

85

How soon is too soon?

86

Ho ho how’s it going?

87

Demand and supply

88

What's Beneath the Surface?

89

What recession?

90

Tough sell

91

The cost of de-risking

92

Why sustainability still matters

93

Sticking Point

94

Down and up

95

Double-Edged Sword

96

Out of Sync

97

Lowered expectations

98

LMI in July

99

Inferring inflection

100

Prime Week

101

The summer of discontent

102

The cost of volatility

103

Supply chain shuffle

104

Pricing plummet

105

But It’s Gonna Get Better, Right??

106

Forecasting frenzy

107

Transitory transitions

108

Defining the bottom

109

How financial and operational data should be viewed

110

Optimism or dishonesty

111

Putting the Stag in Flation

112

How applicable is history

113

Economic accountability

114

March Madness

115

Financial foundations

116

Any spring in our step?

117

Wait, who’s watching the economy?!

118

We are not out of the woods

119

Everything, all at once

120

Light or a train

121

Leveraging the future

122

Finding the bottom

123

Dr. Rogers is back

124

Payment comes due

125

A long December

126

Dipping Demand

127

Cycling down

128

Some good news?

129

Cracks in the dam

130

Abruptly lagging

131

Reaction time

132

Hurricane chicanery

133

Taming the chaos

134

What next?

135

Has our economy become too nearsighted?

136

Pain Tolerance

137

Transitional Trends

138

How much is too much?

139

Supplying inflation

140

It’s starting to smell real 2019ish

141

Timing is everything

142

We aren’t surprised

143

How port and rail congestion is still inhibiting supply chain fluidity

144

Are We The Crazy Ones??

145

What to expect in the 2nd quarter

146

Navigating an economic slowdown

147

What is stagflation?

148

Why supply chains are still a puzzle

149

Will freight see a summer slump?

150

Where in the World is Zac Rogers?

151

FOSC biggest moments

152

Conflicting Messages

153

All the Moving Pieces

154

Is the Sky Falling?

155

An Inventory Story

156

Impact of spiking oil prices on supply chains

157

Conflicted messages

158

Are you sure this is what you want?

159

Overdue Innovation

160

How equities markets influence transportation

161

Are we interested?

162

Pandemic to Endemic

163

New Year Same Supply Chain

164

How did this happen? Freight stops freight.

165

Still Broken

166

That all you got??

167

To peak or not to peak

168

What Rhymes with FreightTech?!

169

Why does it matter??

170

Maritime Spooktacular!

171

Already Living in 2022

172

The Cold Truth

173

Is the port congestion problem solvable?

174

Climbing the peak or walking the plateau?

175

All Aboard?

176

Explain This!

177

Explain This!

178

Another Shutdown??

179

Let the cramming begin

180

Rough seas ahead

181

Roadblocked

182

UBER BIG NEWS

183

The economics of growth

184

Lessons from the first half of 2021

185

Air It Out

186

Will the bear wake up?

187

Something's Gotta Give!

188

When will capacity stop crunching

189

Well, wood you look at that?

190

The cost of nearshoring

191

The maritimely-ness of it all

192

High & Tight!

193

Unions, Semiconductors, and Employment

194

Intermod-all about it

195

Suez What!?

196

Is inflation becoming a real threat to economic recovery?

197

Rough waters ahead

198

How Quickly are Supply Chains Changing?

199

The Data Dump

200

Protectionism vs Free Trade

201

Unclogging the bottlenecks

202

"What Matter the Most"

203

Will 2021 be a good year for freight?

204

Where’s my freight?

205

Distributing the vaccine

206

What drives profitability in transportation

207

Regulators! Mount up!

208

Will shipping bottlenecks help or hurt transportation providers

209

Divided we ship

210

How capital investments are reshaping supply chains

211

How do presidential elections impact the economy and transportation?

212

Live from Cold Chain Summit

213

Prime days ahead!

214

How long will the import boom last?

215

Many mini-bids

216

Could driver recruitment issues keep trucking rates elevated?

217

Leading the way

218

No days off

219

Getting to the root of the problem!

220

In the Trenches

221

How long will the bull run

222

Over the Hump?

223

What we can takeaway from the nation's largest carrier beating the street

224

No Vacancy

225

How will the resurging COVID-19 cases effect supply chains

226

How sustainable are current trucking volumes?

227

Planes, trains, ships and trucks: What each mode is telling us about the economic recovery

228

Who is driving freight rates in 2020?

229

What Goes Down, Must Come Up?.. Wait, No..

230

Are production numbers lagging or leading the freight market’s recovery?

231

The housing and home improvement sector’s over-achievement driving optimism for recovery

232

Our actions today affect our lives tomorrow

233

Perspectives throughout the Industry

234

The Worst Has Yet to Come

235

Not so fast my friend

236

What to glean from J.B. Hunt's surprisingly ok 1Q results

237

How the COVID-19 outbreak is hitting supply chains

238

Every day is a new day

239

Will the cure be worse than the disease?

240

Navigating the coronavirus

241

The Financial Side of Transportation

242

Coronavirus Update and The main functions of a Freight Forwarder?

243

What drives trucking rates?

244

How the spot market moves the freight economy

245

Macro Edition - How to navigate in a slow freight economy

246

The Trailer Talk

247

What is LTL?

248

Is this the new normal?

249

Straight Outta California

250

January is the Monday of the year

251

Die Hard is not a Christmas movie and other supply side corrections

252

What's 10th century Korean pottery got to do with it?

253

Climbing the Retail Peak