Fighting for Change: Inside the TIA Policy Forum | Episode 313
The trucking industry faces a major safety crisis—1 in 5 trucks shouldn’t be on the road, 97% of carriers lack safety ratings, and nearly a quarter of drivers stopped during inspections don’t even hav...
26 Sep 20251h 4min
The FMCSA Data Crisis (with Danielle Chaffin) | Episode 312
The FMCSA’s sudden shutdown of data feeds threw brokers, carriers, and safety officials into chaos, cutting off access to critical verification tools and exposing major vulnerabilities in the freight ...
19 Sep 20251h 6min
Gatekeepers, False Reports, and Other Freight Broker Headaches | Final Mile 111
Nate Cross & Ben Kowalski answer your freight brokering questions and discuss: 🚛 Tips for new freight brokers 🎓 How to get training as a freight agent 🛑 Dealing with false reports on Carrier411 S...
16 Sep 202517min
Trucking's Death Spiral: Safety, Wages, and Foreign Labor | Episode 311
Veteran trucker Gord Magill joins the podcast to dismantle the “driver shortage” myth. He exposes how cheap labor schemes, like Nebraska recruiting Kenyan drivers, fuel exploitation while rates stay l...
12 Sep 20251h 14min
Overcoming Broker Obstacles | Final Mile 110
Nate Cross & Ben Kowalski answer your freight brokering questions and discuss: 🚚 Factoring roadblock: New broker stuck on net-30 factoring with no quick pay — is there a workaround? 📞 Building a boo...
9 Sep 202519min
The Scam Economy of Freight (with Justin Martin) | Episode 310
The trucking industry is being rocked by fraud schemes that threaten honest brokers, carriers, and shippers. In this episode, Justin Martin (SuperTrucker) exposes tactics like ELD tampering, stolen tr...
5 Sep 20251h 12min
Finding Trucks, Crossing Borders, and Growing Your Customer Base | Final Mile 109
Nate Cross & Ben Kowalski answer your freight brokering questions and discuss: ❓ How do I scale past $10K/month when my current customers are all small? How do I win bigger shippers, and how should my...
2 Sep 202517min
Uncovering the ELD Fraud Crisis (with Danielle Chaffin) | Episode 309
The ELD mandate was supposed to make highways safer, but instead it’s created one of the biggest security and safety risks in trucking. On this episode, Danielle Chaffin exposes how fraudulent ELDs fu...
29 Aug 20251h 13min
