Newsletter #26

MATS!!!!

Author

Reed Loustalot
March 19, 2024

Yo

This is the LOST FR8 Community Newsletter. Your weekly sprinkling of a little bit of what’s going on in the online freight world, our Discord community, and with lostfr8.com.

Here is the main thing this week!! See you at MATS!

❓ I have free MATS VIP tickets

🧠 Some Thoughts

I wrote a little post last week on LinkedIn because it’s been about 2 years since I was laid off from my job at Trimble.

Pretty crazy it’s been 2 years, as so much has happened. But I just wanted to focus in on one thing that’s made it all possible: posting.

I can’t emphasize enough how much posting/writing online has done for me.

This newsletter, posting on Linkedin/Twitter, etc. have basically provided me every opportunity. It’s how I’ve met all our lostfr8.com customers, it’s how I originally met my co-founder Jake, it’s how I’ve met many of my current friends.

I would encourage everyone out there to start posting content in some capacity. It doesn’t have to be memes or shitposts like I tend to do. You need to find what works for you.

You can find customers, you can find friends, you can find cofounders, you can find a new job. I guarantee you you can find just about anything if you engage for long enough online.

Anywho, that’s it for now, onto some other stuff.

I hope to see many of you at MATS Thursday/Friday!

🏟️ Community Section

The LOST FR8 Discord is a digital freight community.

It’s comprised of 1373 freight professionals ranging from drivers, brokers, fleet owners, freight forwarders, tech bros, journalists, and more.

We had Shooting The Ship with Tony Darnell last week, which went very well. Tony and I spoke for a couple hours and we brought some folks on stage to talk as well. Looking forward to running this event again in the near future!

Events This Week

  • Tuesday: Tech Bro Tuesday 9pm EST (Discord)

    • Last week’s event ran over 3 hours and was spent mostly talking about about TMS stuff.

  • The rest of the week we’ll be at MATS so no FR8 Therapy this week.. just IRL

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.

Conferences: MATS

Aight so MATS is about a week away. I have free VIP tickets to give away, so click the link above if you need a ticket!

Thursday 7-? (March 21)

Friday 3-6pm (March 22)

🐟 Freight Caviar Corner

This week at Freight Caviar: The Cost of Operating a Truck in 2024. Plus, Flock Freight trims down operations, former trucking CEO gets a $5.5M goodbye, and Alaskan truckers are cashing in.

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.

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

🐦 What’s Up On FreightX?

Truckstop is always cooking up some crazy stuff. Go follow them.

👨‍💼 What’s going on on Linkedin?

My buddy Ben Tschigiri made a good point here. It seems that payment terms shippers are demanding keep increasing… maybe I’m wrong?!

Ben www.linkedin.com/posts/bentschirgi_freight-brokers-dont-get-enough-credit-for-activity-7175505090160537602-7omV?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktopTschirgi on LinkedIn: Freight brokers don’t get enough credit for all the credit they extend to… | 39 commentsBeFreight brokers don’t get enough credit for all the credit they extend to shippers. Net30/45/60/90 at 0% interest is a pretty good deal these days. What are… | 39 comments on LinkedInn www.linkedin.com/posts/bentschirgi_freight-brokers-dont-get-enough-credit-for-activity-7175505090160537602-7omV?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktopTschirgi on LinkedIn: Freight brokers don’t get enough credit for all the credit they extend to… | 36 commentsBeFreight brokers don’t get enough credit for all the credit they extend to shippers. Net30/45/60/90 at 0% interest is a pretty good deal these days. What are… | 36 comments on LinkedInn www.linkedin.com/posts/bentschirgi_freight-brokers-dont-get-enough-credit-for-activity-7175505090160537602-7omV?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktopTschirgi on LinkedIn: Freight brokers don’t get enough credit for all the credit they extend to… | 36 commentsBeFreight brokers don’t get enough credit for all the credit they extend to shippers. Net30/45/60/90 at 0% interest is a pretty good deal these days. What are… | 36 comments on LinkedInn www.linkedin.com/posts/bentschirgi_freight-brokers-dont-get-enough-credit-for-activity-7175505090160537602-7omV?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktopTschirgi on LinkedIn: Freight brokers don’t get enough credit for all the credit they extend to… | 36 commentsBeFreight brokers don’t get enough credit for all the credit they extend to shippers. Net30/45/60/90 at 0% interest is a pretty good deal these days. What are… | 36 comments on LinkedInn www.linkedin.com/posts/bentschirgi_freight-brokers-dont-get-enough-credit-for-activity-7175505090160537602-7omV?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktopTschirgi on LinkedIn: Freight brokers don’t get enough credit for all the credit they extend to… | 36 commentsBeFreight brokers don’t get enough credit for all the credit they extend to shippers. Net30/45/60/90 at 0% interest is a pretty good deal these days. What are… | 36 comments on LinkedInn www.linkedin.com/posts/bentschirgi_freight-brokers-dont-get-enough-credit-for-activity-7175505090160537602-7omV?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktopTschirgi on LinkedIn: Freight brokers don’t get enough credit for all the credit they extend to… | 28 commentsBeFreight brokers don’t get enough credit for all the credit they extend to shippers. Net30/45/60/90 at 0% interest is a pretty good deal these days. What are… | 28 comments on LinkedInn www.linkedin.com/posts/bentschirgi_freight-brokers-dont-get-enough-credit-for-activity-7175505090160537602-7omV?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktopTschirgi on LinkedIn: Freight brokers don’t get enough credit for all the credit they extend to… | 15 commentsBeFreight brokers don’t get enough credit for all the credit they extend to shippers. Net30/45/60/90 at 0% interest is a pretty good deal these days. What are… | 15 comments on LinkedInn www.linkedin.com/posts/bentschirgi_freight-brokers-dont-get-enough-credit-for-activity-7175505090160537602-7omV?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktopTschirgi on LinkedIn: Freight brokers don’t get enough credit for all the credit they extend to… | 15 comments

Freight brokers don’t get enough credit for all the credit they extend to shippers. Net30/45/60/90 at 0% interest is a pretty good deal these days. What are… | 15 comments on LinkedIn

www.linkedin.com/posts/bentschirgi_freight-brokers-dont-get-enough-credit-for-activity-7175505090160537602-7omV?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

🚚 LOST FR8

LOSTFR8.COM is a tool for carriers to market themselves.

As a carrier rep, I ALWAYS sought out carriers who made it easy for me to know where they had available capacity, what lanes they ran, etc. Carriers who made that easy were the ones I wanted to work with.

We built a tool that enables carriers to be easy to work with.

Carriers build public profiles that contain all the information brokers/shippers are looking for:

  • Capacity

  • Equipment profile

  • Preferred Lanes

  • Contact

This information is then shareable via a public profile and a truck list email tool.

🔗 Some Links

  • Flock Freight laid off 54 employees last week (Freightwaves)

  • Aid materials destined for children in Haiti have been looted at the port of Port-au-Prince (gCaptain)

  • Michigan trucker guilty of setting Swift Transportation trailers on fire

    Detroit-area man set fires across the country in ‘rampage of retaliation’ against Swift, US attorney says (Freightwaves)

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