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Donate to a family in need

Donate to a family in need

Also Lumper Appreciation Week starts tomorrow

Reed Loustalot
May 07, 2024

Good Morning,

My short and sweet newsletter format performed horribly last week lol, so I’m going back to the original setup. Hope you all have a good week.

In this edition

Donate to a driver who’s house burned down.
Lumper Appreciation Week starts tomorrow
New Arena recording
FreightStack demo during TBT

Reed

What’s going on on FreightX?

My friend and loyal LOST FR8 customer Jamie Hagen posted about one of his driver’s homes burning down. Obviously it’s a horrible situation so they put together a Gofundme to raise money for the family. If you feel so inclined, donate to help this family out.

Donate to Aboud Family House Fire Fund, organized by Jamie Hell Bent Hagen

The Aboud Family, Brandon, Lindsey, Zachary and baby Jacob experienced a total loss… Jamie Hell Bent Hagen needs your support for Aboud Family House Fire Fund

www.gofundme.com/f/aboud-family-house-fire-fund?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet-first-launch&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Our driver @Brandon_Aboud and his family lost everything in a house fire this morning. Brandon also lost his mother last week to cancer. Poor guy can't catch a break lately. Thankfully though he still has his loving wife and children. If you all could just show Brandon and his… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— MACK LOVIN (@hellbenthagen)
9:53 PM • May 6, 2024

Some Thoughts

Lumper Appreciation Week starts on Wednesday. Take a few extra moments this week to think about the unsung heroes of the supply chain.

🏟️ Community Section

The LOST FR8 Discord is a digital freight community.

It’s comprised of 1428 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 all relevant links here.

Tech Bro Tuesday (9pm EST Tuesdays in Discord)

Last week we had ShipperCRM, this week we have FreightStack

The Arena

Check out all the recordings here.

In The Arena: Cameron Robertson

Listen to this episode from Please Advisory on Spotify. Welcome back to another episode of In The Arena. This time we're joined by Cameron Robertson, CEO of 3PL Systems, a TMS provider based in Southern California. It's about 2 hours long and full of nuggets of wisdom about how Cameron climbed from an entry level role all the way to CEO.This episode was recorded live in the LOST FR8 Discord.If you're not in there, join!

open.spotify.com/episode/2afErd0D7LtdBpsUF9YMYt?si=9c77d0d99a3c4d76

We recently had Cameron Robertson in the arena. You can find the Spotify link above.

Our next episode will be announced soon.

Freight Caviar Corner

🎣 Do Not Click

Plus, we're taking a look at how the freight market has performed in the first three months of 2024.

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!

Best Meme This Week

Normally I won’t use my own content for this part, but I really liked this meme I made yesterday lol