Freight strategy from the operating floor.
Freightvine tracks how trucking, brokerage, procurement, rail, ports, and supply chain software are changing in real operations. The tone is technical but conversational, with market updates and guest interviews grounded in shipper, carrier, and platform decisions.
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Freightvine is an industry-focused series about freight transportation, logistics technology, and the supply chain decisions behind movement of goods. It is hosted by Chris Kaplis and produced and edited by DAT Freight and Analytics. The show is built around conversations with people who have worked inside trucking, brokerage, intermodal, procurement, software, manufacturing, and shipper-facing events. Its best moments are granular. A conversation about shared truckload becomes a discussion of pooled freight, service risk, corridor density, pallet counts, and why most pools may still involve only two freight bills. A procurement episode turns into a practical argument about low-volume lanes, digital brokers, API-driven solutions, incumbency value, and the fatigue created by repeated false alarms about market tightening. Freightvine is comfortable with math and operations, but it does not feel abstract. Guests explain how companies use data, optimization, automation, and AI bots to reduce manual work, improve driver efficiency, and manage dedicated fleets across customers. Technology is treated as useful only when it handles the real constraints. The show also looks backward. Intermodal episodes connect deregulation, road railer technology, domestic containerization, precision scheduled railroading, transloading, port strategy, and shifting import patterns. That historical memory gives current market talk more weight. Freightvine also follows sustainability and equipment change, including Volvo's three-pillar approach to decarbonization and the practical challenges around battery electric trucks and near-zero emissions freight. Software conversations cover supply chain planning, concurrency, fulfillment, forecasting, customer expectations, product management, and the shrinking boundary between planning and execution. Event recap episodes bring DAT colleagues into the room to translate Shipper Summit and DATCON discussions about procurement, transportation management, AI, cybersecurity, and peer-to-peer shipper concerns. The pacing is measured, direct, and expert without being showy. Freightvine is not built for casual business headlines. It is built for people who want the freight market explained by practitioners who care about how the pieces connect.
Made for: Freightvine is for shippers, carriers, brokers, logistics technologists, supply chain software teams, and transportation analysts who want practical context rather than surface-level trend coverage.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by joining market analysis with operational detail: bids, lanes, capacity, software workflows, equipment limits, ports, rail, and regulatory pressure all sit in the same conversation.
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Shared truckload stops being a slogan once your freight curiosity meets the pallets-and-corridors math.
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A grounded look at the data, scale, and operational math behind shared truckload.
Freight brokerage turns into a systems story as Chris Pickett follows the line from Coyote Logistics to Flock Freight. He lays out how shippers pool freight within corridors, why most pools still carry two freight bills, and how scale, timing forecasts, and dependable shipment…
Freight talk for people close to the work.
Freight news with the throttle open.
Freight market talk with operator instincts.
Straight talk from the warehouse floor.
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Eric Johnson discusses converging pressures on freight markets including fuel costs, tariff uncertainty, and technology's role in logistics.
Jason Traff discusses the evolution of TMS from digital filing cabinets to AI-driven tools that provide actionable data and act as digital co-workers in logistics.
["Chris Pickett says shippers should prepare for a possible 45% spot-rate surge and 10% to 11% contract increases by the end of 2026.", "He traces his path from Northern Virginia and Virginia Tech industrial engineering to Anderson Consulting in San Francisco, Logistics.com, MIT, and Coyote Logistics with Jeff Silver and Bill Drieger.", "The main argument is that Flock Freight's shared truckload model pools partial loads within corridors, uses truckload service instead of terminal consolidation, and can cut freight spend and carbon emissions.", "Pickett also explains the Pickett line, his proprietary market-cycle tool, and says Coyote's edge came from density, the closest truck, and mission-driven culture."]
Erin Van Zeeland discusses her evolving role at Schneider, technological shifts in trucking, data optimization, AI automation, freight market predictions, and sustainability efforts.
Freightvine host Chris Kampas interviews Fab Brasca, SVP of Market Strategy at Canaxis, about concurrent supply-chain planning across forecasting, inventory, supply, and fulfillment.
Freight Find host Chris Kaplis interviews Larry Gross, President and Founder of Gross Transportation Consulting, about an intermodal career that began before the 1980 deregulation era.
Freightvine host Chris Kaplis and Argonne transportation partner Kevin Zweier examine freight procurement trends entering 2026 after three years of missed warnings about a tightening market.
Chris Kaplis, Ken Adamo and Dean Croke compare their 2025 forecasts (Dean 3-5%, Chris 6-8%, Ken 12.5%) with DAT's Benchmark Analytics data showing spot rates down 2.3%.
Corey Klujsza of RxO explains the RxO Curve, which tracks year-over-year line haul rate changes across 10,000+ transactional shipments, as a six-segment cycle running from equilibrium to peak to trough.
Mark Albrecht of C.H.
Chad Kennedy and Samuel Parker discuss highlights and key takeaways from the Shipper Summit and DATCon 24 events in Kansas City.
Keith Brandis discusses Volvo's three-pillar approach to decarbonizing the supply chain, focusing on battery electric vehicles and the challenges of transitioning to near-zero emissions in the US.
David Landau discusses his 25-year career in supply chain software, focusing on product management and industry evolution.
Matt Waller discusses the evolution of the retail value chain over the last 30 years, focusing on the impact of e-commerce and the convergence into commerce, with examples of new startups.