What The Truck?!? - August 10, 2018

First, the dynamic freight duo compare Bell’s Two-Hearted (shocker!) versus Drivin and Cryin Straight to Hell IPA. Then, they cover the headlines of the week from Uber to toys to blockchain to Bangladesh. Uber spins off Uber Freight as separate business unit, brings back Lior Ron to lead Toys ‘R’ Us bankruptcy leaves retailers anxious to pick up the slack Maersk, IBM open blockchain platform to world as they seek additional partners The shipbreaking industry where workers die on the shores of Bangladesh And after all that goodness, they tap into a competitive round of Big Deal, Little Deal? Volkswagen AG could recall 124,000 electric and hybrid cars due to poisonous cadmium presence: big deal, or little deal? Redwood announces cross-border supply chain solution to simplify shipping to and from Mexico: big deal, or little deal? XPO's Last Mile business putting down its first facility in Canada: big deal, or little deal? Nikola raises $100 million in August, anticipates oversubscribed Series C: big deal, or little deal? Women make better drivers than men so why aren't there more during a capacity crunch?: big deal, or little deal? Retaliatory tariffs sour US cranberry market: big deal, or little deal? Rising transportation costs, Brazil trucking strike put pressure on Kellogg's profit margins: big deal, or little deal? A strong quarter for 3PL Expeditors, but ocean freight shows some weakness: big deal, or little deal? Then we look back to the McLeod CFO conference as JP and Zach talk to McLeod Manager of Product Development Robert Brothers about Capacity Creator, a new machine learning tool to automate brokers' workflows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices