Freight friction, loose banter, and a practical cross-border conversation.
What The Truck?!? opens with Easter banter and then settles into freight pressure, cross-border tension, and a conversation with Zack Greenberger, CEO of Nexar.

Freight news with the brakes off.
WHAT THE TRUCK?!? is a high-speed freight show where headlines about CDLs, drones, ports, theft, AI tools, and trucking politics collide with loose studio banter. Malcolm Harris and Michael Vincent keep the room loud, reactive, and practical, translating oddball stories into consequences for people who move goods.
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WHAT THE TRUCK?!? is freight news delivered like a live wire. Malcolm Harris and Michael Vincent bring a rapid, reactive style to transportation stories that range from weird crime to serious policy, from AI tools to carrier operations, from drone delivery to cross-border disruption. The show likes a headline with teeth. A VIN hack, a Lego theft, pythons at a port, meth in blackberries, F1 Kit Kats targeted by organized crime, or Indiana suddenly pulling CDLs all fit naturally into its world. The pace is quick. The room rarely stays buttoned-up for long. A freight scandal may lead into jokes about shoes, Easter, cereal, the Masters, family driving lessons, rap lyrics, or Chattanooga before snapping back to logistics consequences. That looseness is part of the function, not a distraction. The show makes dense transportation issues feel immediate by reading the number, reacting to the absurdity, then asking what it does to drivers, carriers, brokers, fleets, ports, customers, or technology vendors. It can get technical without sounding institutional. AI appears as more than a buzzword, with conversations about prompting, decision-native systems, cost-cutting tools, revenue quality, and operational automation. The guest bench gives the show its industry ballast. Fred DePerez brings commercial vehicle context from Harbinger. Zack Greenberger talks from Nexar. Chris Edney appears around Interstate Global. Guests tied to Beagle Technologies, TrueSignal, Burns Logistics, Overhaul, Stored, Lone Cypress Logistics, and Baron Lamar Fuel keep the conversation close to people building or running freight businesses. The result is not a tidy trade briefing. It is a freight desk with side tangents, strong reactions, and enough operational detail to matter. The show suits listeners who want transportation news to feel alive, specific, and occasionally ridiculous, without losing sight of the business underneath.
Made for: Built for logistics insiders, trucking operators, brokers, supply chain watchers, and freight-tech people who want industry news with urgency and personality. It also suits curious business listeners drawn to strange transportation stories and operational stakes.
What sets it apart: The show pairs real logistics fluency with unruly live-room chemistry, so stories about AI, fraud, regulation, ports, and carrier economics never feel like sterile trade copy. Its edge comes from translating wild headlines into practical freight consequences in real time.
WHAT THE TRUCK?!? is FreightWaves' irreverent award-winning podcast breaking down the biggest stories in transportation and logistics. WTT?!? is all about the people that make freight move. On the show you'll hear from founders, CEOs, VCs, truckers, brokers, and influencers. Join the industry three times a week on FreightWavesTV and podcast players everywhere.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
WHAT THE TRUCK?!? connects freight headlines to the operating choices, risks and costs facing carriers and logistics companies.
WHAT THE TRUCK?!? treats freight as a business system shaped by regulation, technology, cargo crime, trade policy and the daily economics of moving a load.
An ELD left on during a theft: your freight news comes with a raised eyebrow.
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Freight friction, loose banter, and a practical cross-border conversation.
What The Truck?!? opens with Easter banter and then settles into freight pressure, cross-border tension, and a conversation with Zack Greenberger, CEO of Nexar.
Good Friday freight talk that wanders a bit but keeps returning to operations and industry pressure.
What the Truck? starts with a Good Friday reflection, then moves into freight headlines, cargo theft, and a detour through bad decisions before settling back into logistics.
A brisk freight-news review that makes AI's next move a test of operational judgment.
WHAT THE TRUCK?!? frames the April 1 show as a fast collision of absurd headlines and real operating questions. It opens with April Fools banter, pythons, drugs, and a liquid-meth tease before settling into a conversation with Daniel Powell, CEO of Optimal Dynamics, about what…
A freight-policy check-in that puts potential tariff refunds on the 180-day filing clock.
What The Truck?!? uses a Tuesday tariff question as a way into the operational mess that could follow a Supreme Court decision. Malcolm Harris asks Noy Mahoney how a ruling tied to hundreds of billions of dollars in imports might ripple through refund claims and lawsuits from…
A loose freight-news hour links Fort Worth banter with a practical JJ Keller discussion of fleet risk.
WHAT THE TRUCK?!? starts in its usual loose register, moving through Fort Worth food, bourbon, and busted brackets before settling into a JJ Keller conversation about fleet risk.
A freight anniversary episode connects Truckstop's longevity with AI, carrier decision-making, survey data, and LTL claims.
Truckstop's 30th anniversary gives this freight episode a clear way into the larger question of carrier technology: staying power matters, but only if the tools help carriers make sharper day-to-day calls.
A lively freight-tech discussion grounds digital adoption in the practical work of receiving tenders and getting paid.
The episode is most persuasive when it treats freight technology as an operating problem, not a pitch. CarrierOne is framed as a system of record that can pre-seed a carrier account with partner data, tractors, trailers, and VIN-level detail, then connect brokerage tenders,…

Crypto as infrastructure, argued carefully.


Workforce change, explained at executive altitude.
This episode of What the Truck features interviews with Jane Jasrari, CEO of Carrier's Edge, about the Best Fleets to Drive For program and trucking industry insights, plus a conversation with an old friend.
This episode explores why multinationals are centralizing freight procurement in Ireland, discussing inefficiencies in RFPs and how AI is transforming the freight industry with guests from Prodensis and a freight insider.
This episode of What the Truck features interviews with John Kingston discussing RXO and market updates, Danielle Villegas from sponsor PCS talking about F3 and future plans, and Danielle Spinelli on fraud-related topics.
This episode features an interview with Mike Riccio, a transportation expert with over 35 years of experience, to discuss leadership, brokerage, and the 'Slammer' scam affecting trucking profits.
Thomas Wasson hosts an episode celebrating Truckstop's 30th anniversary and exploring AI's impact on truckers.
Hosts Malcolm Harris and Michael Vincent open with Masters golf banter before diving into a $1 million Lego heist case in California.
This episode of What The Truck features Chris Dimitralius discussing automation, telematics, and the risks and rewards of a smarter freight future.
Malcolm Harris and Michael Vincent open the September 30 episode of What the Truck?!?
This episode features interviews with Eric Weiss, William Williams, and Ed Burns discussing topics like the $287k VIN hack, the 60 Minutes scandal involving 'super ego', and the trade-offs between AI-driven cost-cutting tools and revenue quality in business.
This episode discusses the Athena Strand case, revealing that the perpetrator was not actually a FedEx driver despite initial reports.
This episode discusses Amazon's $500 million investment in package drone technology, exploring its implications for logistics and business strategy.
This episode of What The Truck discusses a $1 million Lego heist and the financial struggles of the USPS, while opening with a lighthearted conversation about the Masters golf tournament.
This episode discusses Trump's $65 billion investment in battleships over ports, analyzing the strategic and economic implications with insights from industry experts.
Freight gets weird fast.
Good Friday starts with freight show hallelujahs.
The April 1 edition opens with April Fools banter and a promise to get into pythons, drugs, and liquid meth.
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