This Week In Trucking

You don't have a lead problem. You have an operating system problem. In this episode of This Week in Trucking, Kalei Poteat — founder of Fleet Connect, a network of over 50,000 operators — breaks down why most small carriers stay stuck, how to build a real client acquisition system instead of refreshing a load board, what AI can actually do for a 1 to 5 truck operation right now, why founder dependency is the trap that keeps small carriers small, and the one thing you can do this week to star...

🔴𝗗𝗢𝗡’𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘!🔴 Ten years ago you didn't see insurance claims over $10 million. Now $10 million is the average. And brokers are quietly cutting carriers out of their networks without telling them why. In this episode of This Week in Trucking, Kodie Yost — Risk Management Consultant at UCI Insurance Services, former freight broker with 7 years managing food and beverage accounts for Costco, Target, and Walmart — breaks down what it actually means to be a "defensible carrier," wh...

Freight fraud isn't just double brokering anymore. They're hacking carrier emails, stealing entire freight bills, running ghost fleets, and impersonating legitimate trucking companies. And most carriers don't know they've been hit until a broker calls asking where their load is. In this episode of This Week in Trucking, John Cantera: the Double Broker Bounty Hunter, 25-year logistics and supply chain veteran, former Air Force logistics officer, and certified war planner, breaks down ho...

She started driving in 2019 for fun. By 2021, she had her own authority. Today she runs 60 trucks — all owner-operators — hauling reefer, flatbed, and dry van freight. And one of her drivers just grossed $13,000 in a single week. In this episode of This Week in Trucking, Daria Kaputsina, Founder and CEO of Mountain Lane Trucking, breaks down how she went from three trucks to 60, why she ditched the company driver model during the freight recession, how her owner-operator pay structure works ...

The average truck costs $100,000 a year to operate. $14,000 to $16,000 of that goes to repairs alone. And if you're an owner-operator handling breakdowns on your own, you're probably overpaying. In this episode of This Week in Trucking, Dana from TTN Fleet Solutions — with 30+ years in transportation and fleet maintenance — breaks down the most common (and most expensive) truck repairs, why preventive maintenance is the single highest-ROI habit in trucking, and how a vetted service provider ...