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The FreightFA Brief Podcast — 89 episodes
30 Minutes Changes Everything: Amazon Just Rewrote the Rules of Last-Mile Delivery
$20 Billion in Annual Rail Output: How North Carolina Built America's Most Strategic Freight Corridor
Update: Aurora Just Went From Texas Pilot to a Sun Belt Capacity Story
Amazon Supply Chain Services Is Now Open to Every Shipper
The Fuel Surcharge Machine: Why Spirit Died While LTL Got Rich
The UP-NS Refile: What Was Wrong, How They Fixed It, and What It Means for Your Supply Chain
What ODFL and C.H. Robinson's Q1 2026 Numbers Are Really Telling You
UPS Q1 2026: UPS Exceeds Expectations, Yet Nobody Celebrated.
Norfolk Southern Q1 2026: The Railroad Holding the Line
Union Pacific Just Broke Records — and It's Not Done Yet
CSX Q1 2026: Rail Quietly Joins the Upcycle
The Invisible Bottleneck: How AI, IoT & 5G Are Rewiring Global Ports
J.B. Hunt Q1 2026: The Freight Cycle Has Turned
Strait of Hormuz: Open, Closed, Repeat
AI Agents Are Eating Freight Ops — And project44 Just Paid for Proof
The Drone-as-a-Service Playbook: Why the Smartest Operators Stopped Buying Drones
The Rails Are Shaking: BNSF’s CEO Sounds the Alarm on the Biggest Merger in Railroad History
Amazon + USPS: The 66% Cut That Became a 20% Trim
FreightFA Industry Podcast: Karen Burchfield
Locked Down: How Matson + BNSF Are Rewriting the Rules on Cargo Security
Indiana's Magic Road: The Electric Highway Just Got Real
The Rail Pricing Decimal That Executives Cannot Afford to Ignore
$2,279 and Climbing: The 4-Week Ocean Surge That’s About to Reprice Your Domestic Freight
The 8% Surcharge No One Anticipated
Section 301 Is the New IEEPA: The 117-Day Tariff Replacement Strategy
$5.2 Billion and Growing: 3PL’s Consolidation Tipping Point
FMCSA Is Achieving What the Freight Recession Failed To: Permanently Reducing Capacity
Mar 26: 122,000 Truck Drivers Disappeared According to the BLS.
Mar 25: Two Canals, Two Realities
Mar 24: Aurora's 250,000 Miles Autonomous Trucking
Mar 23: Norfolk Southern’s Two Derailments in 30 Days
Mar 20: Railroad Megamergers Meet the Big‑Tech Antitrust Playbook
Mar 18: Scan Global Logistics Cut CO₂ 86.9% on Ocean Lanes — Here’s the Playbook
Mar 16: How the Iran–Hormuz LNG Shock Will Hit Freight
FreightFA Industry Podcast: Omar Shakoor
Mar 11: How Charleston is Rewriting the Southeast Supply Chain
Mar 10: AAR Rail Data Suggests the Freight Economy Just Woke Up
Mar 9: The Latest Jobs Report Is In — And the Freight Market Has Taken Another Hit
Mar 2: The Hormuz Strait Chokepoint
Feb 27: Twin Eagle’s Big Spring Rail Expansion
Feb 26: The Supreme Court Just Gave USPS a Free Pass to Lose Your Mail
Feb 25: CSX’s CEO Just Reset Expectations for Industrial Freight
Feb 24: DHL’s $2.36 Billion Cold Chain Bet
Feb 23: The Panama Canal $8.5B Gamble Who Wins on Slots, Terminals, and Container Control
Feb 20:Why Mexico Is Becoming the New Center of Gravity for Your Supply Chain
Feb 19: UP–NS Isn’t a Fumbled Merger. It’s a Live‑Fire Drill for the STB.
Feb 18: When Scale Becomes Strategy
Feb 17: UPS, Truck Safety, and Ocean Fees
Feb 16: Fort Smith’s $8.1M Port, From Flooded Asset to Freight Hub
Feb 13: Saia’s Trough Quarter. Pain Now, Density Later
Feb 12: House Revolt on Trump’s Canada Tariffs Puts Cross‑Border Freight Back in Play
Feb 11: C.H. Robinson’s 37‑Million‑Shipment AI Pilot
Feb 10: Hub Group's $77M Accounting Bomb
Feb 9: Who’s the real MVP of the Super Bowl? It’s Freight.
Feb 6: 47 Republicans Urge Union Pacific to Address Concerns
Feb 5: Port Houston’s Newest Bet on Port‑Centric Capacity
Feb 4: New York’s $101M Freight Push, 25 New Projects Statewide
Feb 3: The New FreightTech Mandate, From Curiosity to Operating System
Feb 2: The $725M Heist, Inside the Cargo Theft Crisis
The Megawatt Charging Race: Building Infrastructure for Electric Long-Haul Trucking
Jan 28: UPS Q4 Earnings – When Cutting Amazon Volume Actually Lifts Margins
Jan 27: Prologis’ 2025 earnings call—and what its mean for Freight
Jan 26: Carney’s Canada Pivot Is a New Shock Risk for North American Supply Chains
Jan 23: Rail Misses, Trucking Bleeds, Brokers Print
Jan 21: Microfactories & Store‑as‑Factory: The New Operating System for Retail
Jan 20: How Oregon Nearly Lost Its Only Container Port — and Brought It Back
Jan 16: Union Pacific Came to MARS to Clear the Air
Jan 15: CargoAi and the Digital Transformation of Air Cargo
Jan 14: CPI Dropped Yesterday—Here's What It Means for Your Freight Business
Jan 13: STG's Bankruptcy Signals a Freight Industry House of Cards
Jan 12: The $429 Billion Invisible Chain Behind Your Food and Medicine
Jan 9: Dark Stores, Why the Last Five Miles Beat the Last Mile
Jan 8: Amazon's Quad Squad, The Freight Network Splitting in Two
Jan 7: By 2028, Drones Will Be Table Stakes in Freight
Jan 6: If America Can Reach Venezuela, What Stops China from Reaching Taiwan?
Jan 5: How did BYD Beat Tesla? The Answer is Supply Chain
Jan 2: The Buffett Buffer is Gone. With Abel, the "Hands-Off" Era in Freight is Over
Dec 31: UP–NS vs Everybody: Why Every Class 1 Is Attacking the 6,700‑Page Merger Filing
Dec 30: Walmart's $152M Arizona Play + The $850B Returns Crisis: Where Freight Networks Are Actually Heading
Dec 29: The Digital Bet vs. The Physical Slump
Dec 26: Space Data Centers, The Supply Chain Modal No One's Planning For
Dec 24: GDP Says 4.3%. Your Load Board Says Something Else.
Dec 23: Two Infrastructure Moves That Are Rewriting the Logistics Playbook
Dec 22: Weed, De Minimis, and Tariffs — Three Policy Shocks That Will Rewrite 2026 Freight
Dec 19: The Venezuela Blockade—Your Caribbean Route Just Got Expensive (3 Scenarios for 2026)
Dec 18: The $85B Rail Merger: What T-Mobile and Fubo can Teach Shippers
Dec 17: When ‘64K New Jobs’ Still Feels Like a Freight Recession
Dec 16: Fragile Trucks, Expensive Air, Squeezed Supply Chains
Dec 15: Goods Recession Vibes & 98% On‑Time Parcels