Newsletter #29

Good Morning,

Hope all is well in your world. I’m gearing up for TIA show next week here in Phoenix. It’ll be good to see so many of you. This is my first TIA event.

In this edition

• TIA Conference this week

• Hats are back in stock

• Please Advise FR8 Therapy Hotline

• Want to demo during Tech Bro Tuesday?

• Like working with owner ops? Hit up Van!

Reed

Some Thoughts

I’ll be at the TIA Capital Ideas Conference this week. This will be the last conference I attend for a while, as a new member of the Loustalot family will be arriving in June.

I’ve heard good things about TIA events, so I’m excited to attend my first and will report back with my findings.

I’ll have hats in tow, so if you’re interested in picking one up at the show find me.

If you’re interested in scooping a hat, do so here!

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PLEASE ADVISE FR8 THERAPY HOTLINE

Trying something new for fun.

Know how some radio stations have voicemail boxes you can call and vent about your sports team or whatever?

Sometimes they play the recordings on the radio?

Well, I want to do the same thing, but for freight. The working title is the “Please Advise FR8 Therapy Hotline”

If you want to participate, call 480-418-0196 and leave a voicemail

If it’s good, Freight Caviar and I might feature it on Freight Gong Friday

🏟️ Community Section

The LOST FR8 Discord is a digital freight community.

It’s comprised of 1389 freight professionals ranging from drivers, brokers, fleet owners, freight forwarders, tech bros, journalists, and more.

FR8TECH

I put together a simple webpage to keep track of the goings on on the tech side of things. It will feature info on upcoming demos, links to apply to demo, and more. You can view that here.

Tech Bro Tuesday (9pm EST Tuesdays in Discord)

• Last we have Pavel Botev demoed his company Peruse.

• This coming week Aetius Rossa will be filling in for Reed.

• Next week we’ll have a demo by Reform.

FR8 THERAPY

A Twitter Spaces taking place on Thursdays at 9pm EST

The Arena

I’ve hosted a number of long, recorded conversations in the Discord with some big wigs in freight. Check out those recordings here.

LOST FR8 Carrier Corner

Had a conversation with Van Gearing of Van’s Freight Solution. He’s an owner op out of Conway, SC looking for more brokers to work with. Hit him up!

Freight Caviar Corner

These Three Companies Are Creating Freight Broker AI Agents

Plus, the most congested freight corridors in the US, manufacturing bounces back, and Baltimore cargo gets redirected.

Freight Gong Friday

Every Friday at 9a EST, myself and the Freight Caviar guys livestream and discuss the goings on from the week. You can tune in on most social channels.

Here’s last week’s recording!

If you’d like to be a guest, reply to this email and lmk!

What’s going on on FreightX?

Check out the Odd Lots Podcast featuring Matt Silver & his new company Cargado!

Best Meme This Week

Meme of the week goes to the flatty daddy himself Jon Pampalon

What’s Up On LinkedIn?

Not freight related, but my buddy Jason Levin has a lot of good things to say about social strategy in general. Follow him on LinkedIn!