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The FreightFA Brief Podcast — 89 episodes

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30 Minutes Changes Everything: Amazon Just Rewrote the Rules of Last-Mile Delivery

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$20 Billion in Annual Rail Output: How North Carolina Built America's Most Strategic Freight Corridor

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Update: Aurora Just Went From Texas Pilot to a Sun Belt Capacity Story

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Amazon Supply Chain Services Is Now Open to Every Shipper

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The Fuel Surcharge Machine: Why Spirit Died While LTL Got Rich

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The UP-NS Refile: What Was Wrong, How They Fixed It, and What It Means for Your Supply Chain

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What ODFL and C.H. Robinson's Q1 2026 Numbers Are Really Telling You

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UPS Q1 2026: UPS Exceeds Expectations, Yet Nobody Celebrated.

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Norfolk Southern Q1 2026: The Railroad Holding the Line

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Union Pacific Just Broke Records — and It's Not Done Yet

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CSX Q1 2026: Rail Quietly Joins the Upcycle

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The Invisible Bottleneck: How AI, IoT & 5G Are Rewiring Global Ports

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J.B. Hunt Q1 2026: The Freight Cycle Has Turned

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Strait of Hormuz: Open, Closed, Repeat

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AI Agents Are Eating Freight Ops — And project44 Just Paid for Proof

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The Drone-as-a-Service Playbook: Why the Smartest Operators Stopped Buying Drones

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The Rails Are Shaking: BNSF’s CEO Sounds the Alarm on the Biggest Merger in Railroad History

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Amazon + USPS: The 66% Cut That Became a 20% Trim

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FreightFA Industry Podcast: Karen Burchfield

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Locked Down: How Matson + BNSF Are Rewriting the Rules on Cargo Security

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Indiana's Magic Road: The Electric Highway Just Got Real

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The Rail Pricing Decimal That Executives Cannot Afford to Ignore

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$2,279 and Climbing: The 4-Week Ocean Surge That’s About to Reprice Your Domestic Freight

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The 8% Surcharge No One Anticipated

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Section 301 Is the New IEEPA: The 117-Day Tariff Replacement Strategy

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$5.2 Billion and Growing: 3PL’s Consolidation Tipping Point

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FMCSA Is Achieving What the Freight Recession Failed To: Permanently Reducing Capacity

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Mar 26: 122,000 Truck Drivers Disappeared According to the BLS.

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Mar 25: Two Canals, Two Realities

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Mar 24: Aurora's 250,000 Miles Autonomous Trucking

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Mar 23: Norfolk Southern’s Two Derailments in 30 Days

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Mar 20: Railroad Megamergers Meet the Big‑Tech Antitrust Playbook

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Mar 18: Scan Global Logistics Cut CO₂ 86.9% on Ocean Lanes — Here’s the Playbook

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Mar 16: How the Iran–Hormuz LNG Shock Will Hit Freight

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FreightFA Industry Podcast: Omar Shakoor

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Mar 11: How Charleston is Rewriting the Southeast Supply Chain

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Mar 10: AAR Rail Data Suggests the Freight Economy Just Woke Up

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Mar 9: The Latest Jobs Report Is In — And the Freight Market Has Taken Another Hit

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Mar 2: The Hormuz Strait Chokepoint

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Feb 27: Twin Eagle’s Big Spring Rail Expansion

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Feb 26: The Supreme Court Just Gave USPS a Free Pass to Lose Your Mail

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Feb 25: CSX’s CEO Just Reset Expectations for Industrial Freight

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Feb 24: DHL’s $2.36 Billion Cold Chain Bet

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Feb 23: The Panama Canal $8.5B Gamble Who Wins on Slots, Terminals, and Container Control

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Feb 20:Why Mexico Is Becoming the New Center of Gravity for Your Supply Chain

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Feb 19: UP–NS Isn’t a Fumbled Merger. It’s a Live‑Fire Drill for the STB.

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Feb 18: When Scale Becomes Strategy

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Feb 17: UPS, Truck Safety, and Ocean Fees

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Feb 16: Fort Smith’s $8.1M Port, From Flooded Asset to Freight Hub

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Feb 13: Saia’s Trough Quarter. Pain Now, Density Later

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Feb 12: House Revolt on Trump’s Canada Tariffs Puts Cross‑Border Freight Back in Play

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Feb 11: C.H. Robinson’s 37‑Million‑Shipment AI Pilot

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Feb 10: Hub Group's $77M Accounting Bomb

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Feb 9: Who’s the real MVP of the Super Bowl? It’s Freight.

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Feb 6: 47 Republicans Urge Union Pacific to Address Concerns

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Feb 5: Port Houston’s Newest Bet on Port‑Centric Capacity

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Feb 4: New York’s $101M Freight Push, 25 New Projects Statewide

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Feb 3: The New FreightTech Mandate, From Curiosity to Operating System

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Feb 2: The $725M Heist, Inside the Cargo Theft Crisis

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The Megawatt Charging Race: Building Infrastructure for Electric Long-Haul Trucking

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Jan 28: UPS Q4 Earnings – When Cutting Amazon Volume Actually Lifts Margins

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Jan 27: Prologis’ 2025 earnings call—and what its mean for Freight

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Jan 26: Carney’s Canada Pivot Is a New Shock Risk for North American Supply Chains

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Jan 23: Rail Misses, Trucking Bleeds, Brokers Print

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Jan 21: Microfactories & Store‑as‑Factory: The New Operating System for Retail

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Jan 20: How Oregon Nearly Lost Its Only Container Port — and Brought It Back

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Jan 16: Union Pacific Came to MARS to Clear the Air

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Jan 15: CargoAi and the Digital Transformation of Air Cargo

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Jan 14: CPI Dropped Yesterday—Here's What It Means for Your Freight Business

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Jan 13: STG's Bankruptcy Signals a Freight Industry House of Cards

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Jan 12: The $429 Billion Invisible Chain Behind Your Food and Medicine

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Jan 9: Dark Stores, Why the Last Five Miles Beat the Last Mile

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Jan 8: Amazon's Quad Squad, The Freight Network Splitting in Two

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Jan 7: By 2028, Drones Will Be Table Stakes in Freight

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Jan 6: If America Can Reach Venezuela, What Stops China from Reaching Taiwan?

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Jan 5: How did BYD Beat Tesla? The Answer is Supply Chain

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Jan 2: The Buffett Buffer is Gone. With Abel, the "Hands-Off" Era in Freight is Over

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Dec 31: UP–NS vs Everybody: Why Every Class 1 Is Attacking the 6,700‑Page Merger Filing

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Dec 30: Walmart's $152M Arizona Play + The $850B Returns Crisis: Where Freight Networks Are Actually Heading

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Dec 29: The Digital Bet vs. The Physical Slump

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Dec 26: Space Data Centers, The Supply Chain Modal No One's Planning For

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Dec 24: GDP Says 4.3%. Your Load Board Says Something Else.

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Dec 23: Two Infrastructure Moves That Are Rewriting the Logistics Playbook

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Dec 22: Weed, De Minimis, and Tariffs — Three Policy Shocks That Will Rewrite 2026 Freight

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Dec 19: The Venezuela Blockade—Your Caribbean Route Just Got Expensive (3 Scenarios for 2026)

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Dec 18: The $85B Rail Merger: What T-Mobile and Fubo can Teach Shippers

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Dec 17: When ‘64K New Jobs’ Still Feels Like a Freight Recession

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Dec 16: Fragile Trucks, Expensive Air, Squeezed Supply Chains

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Dec 15: Goods Recession Vibes & 98% On‑Time Parcels