Newsletter #23

You should probably be posting

Author

Reed Loustalot
February 27, 2024

Howdy,

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.

Alright anyway, here is what’s going on this week:

  • I’m going to TPM24 next week

  • Freight Gong Friday w/ Bill Driegert

  • I was on Nate Shute’s podcast

P.S. At the end of the newsletter there’s a referral section. If you refer subscribers, I’ll be sending you a reward. Should be pretty cool, too.

P.P.S I am ALWAYS looking for feedback. You can reply to this email directly. Good or bad, I want to hear it!

🧠 Some Thoughts

I’ve started writing more notes for myself during the week and I figured I’d share some tidbits of that here.

You should probably be sharing your thoughts online.

I know, it’s hard cuz it feels weird and you open yourself up to criticism and potentially (likely) being cringe.

I used to say to myself stuff like “no one will want to read what I have to say”. That’s definitely true when you start, but I don’t think that’s a good reason to stop yourself.

If you give it a shot and stick with it, you’ll be shocked when people start to reach out referencing something you posted. It’s pretty cool.

Anywho, let’s keep going.

🔥 Hot Lanes

KEEP SENDING ME YOUR LANES YOU’RE LOOKING FOR CARRIERS FOR.

Reply to this email with:

  • Origin/Destination City, State

  • Frequency

  • Equipment Type

  • Any special information

Every Friday, I send this list to the LOST FR8 carrier base.

🏟️ Community Section

The LOST FR8 Discord is a digital freight community.

It’s comprised of 1354 freight professionals ranging from drivers, brokers, fleet owners, freight forwarders, tech bros, journalists, and more.

Events This Week

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

  • Thursday: FR8 Therapy 9pm EST (X)

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: TPM / MATs

I’ve recently added TPM24 to my calendar. I’ll be heading over there with the Gnosis Freight team. So if you’re going next week, hit me up!

After that, I’ll be at the Mid America Truck Show.

I’m planning an event in the evening on Thursday, March 21 and will have more details soon.

It’s also the coincides with the start of March Madness. So it should surely be a mad time indeed.

You should definitely come. Use the link below to sign up.

🐟 Freight Caviar Corner

This week at Freight Caviar: Mykola Datkun, a 33-year-old trucking company owner from Port Barrington, Illinois, is at the center of a cheating operation aimed at getting around the CDL testing process.

Freight Gong Friday

Last week, Paul, Krystian, and I hosted Bill Driegert. It was a timely discussion considering Flexport just announced they were relaunching the Convoy platform under their ownership. Watch the episode here.

🐦 What’s Up On FreightX?

I was recently on The Bootstrapper’s Guide to Logistics w/ Nate Shutes. It’s funny to compare recent recordings with ones I did last year, I might be figuring out how to talk, actually (lol). Anywho, I enjoyed my time talking to Nate. Give it a listen here.

👨‍💼 What’s going on on Linkedin?

More CEOs/founders should be making content. Kary Jablonski of Trucker Tools has been doing a bang up job recently, so I figured it appropriate to shout her out.

Go give Kary a follow if you don’t already.

Kary Jablonski on LinkedIn: I’ve talked to over 100 brokerage leadership teams over the last 6 months… | 27 comments

I’ve talked to over 100 brokerage leadership teams over the last 6 months and wanted to share some common themes among the most successful that have allowed… | 27 comments on LinkedIn

www.linkedin.com/posts/kary-jablonski-94966162_ive-talked-to-over-100-brokerage-leadership-activity-7167919120775102465-Axty?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.

Shout to David of CDS Transport for giving me a call yesterday while he was stuck waiting to unload at Sysco in Tolleson, AZ

🔗 Some Links

  • Flexport’s Ryan Petersen was on What The Truck?!? with Dooner to discuss relaunching the Convoy platform (Freightwaves)

  • U.S. Navy Secretary Looks to Asia to Revive Shipbuilding at Home (gCaptain)