In this episode of Do You Even Freight?, the crew digs into what a short holiday week actually does to freight: five days of expectations crammed into four days of operations, tighter shipping and receiving schedules, backed-up appointments, drivers sitting on loads, dispatchers scrambling and everyone trying to catch up at once.

Who gets hit hardest by a short freight week? Drivers? Carriers? Brokers? Dispatchers? Shippers and receivers? And if holiday schedules create tighter capacity and more headaches, should those loads come with higher rates or additional compensation?

We also introduce the newest—and possibly most judgmental—member of the DYEF crew: our WTF Wednesday raccoon. He doesn't have a name yet, but he's already got opinions. Lots of them.

Also in this episode:

• The Amazon Prime Air cargo plane crash in Miami and the ongoing investigation
• An Amazon truck crash in northern Indiana that scattered packages across I-80/94
• PHMSA's federal preemption decision involving California and what it could mean for the federal-versus-state transportation regulatory debate
• Kevin's Hot Load gets personal with the story of a truck stolen in Miami
• John's Red Flag of the Day
• Freight Dictionary and more from the crew

Do You Even Freight? covers trucking, freight, logistics, transportation and supply chain news with real industry perspectives, real opinions and zero corporate filter.

🎙️ Freight talk without the filter.

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In this episode of Do You Even Freight?, the crew breaks down what’s happening at the Mexico border and what it means for cross-border trucking, carriers, drivers, freight brokers, shippers, and the North American supply chain.

Then we dig into the U.S. Department of Transportation’s national autonomous vehicle strategy and the bigger picture surrounding autonomous trucks, federal transportation policy, infrastructure, safety, regulation, and the future of the trucking workforce.

What does the USDOT strategy actually say? How does it fit with the autonomous trucking developments already happening across the country? And as technology, infrastructure, freight corridors, and federal policy continue to align, what should the transportation industry be paying attention to next?

We’re connecting the dots, asking the uncomfortable questions, and talking about what these developments could mean for the people and businesses that move America’s freight.

Topics include:
• U.S.-Mexico border trucking and freight
• Cross-border transportation and supply chain impacts
• USDOT autonomous vehicle national strategy
• Autonomous trucks and driverless trucking
• Federal trucking regulations and transportation policy
• AV infrastructure and freight corridors
• Truck driver workforce impacts
• The future of freight and logistics

Do You Even Freight? brings trucking news, freight industry analysis, current events, commentary, and conversations about the issues shaping transportation and logistics — without the corporate script.

On this episode of Do You Even Freight?, we’re looking at the AI revolution already happening behind the scenes in freight, trucking, logistics and supply chain. While the industry has spent years focused on autonomous trucks, artificial intelligence has been moving into brokerage, dispatch, pricing, load matching, fraud prevention, compliance, customer service and freight planning.

We break down our latest LinkedIn poll and ask where AI is already making the biggest impact for carriers and brokers, whether it’s making freight professionals more productive or reducing the need for certain office-side roles, and what happens when both fraud prevention teams and the scammers have access to increasingly powerful AI.

Plus, we’re covering the freight news making headlines:

• More than 110 CDL training providers targeted in a nationwide federal crackdown
• 95 CDL-holding truck drivers arrested during an Arizona Border Patrol operation
• Tropical Storm Edouard and potential freight impacts along the Gulf Coast
• A phishing email impersonating Motus that landed in Kevin’s inbox
• What the latest diesel market movement could mean for trucking
• An overturned 18-wheeler spilling pipes and fuel across Houston’s East Loop
• John’s Red Flag: more than $647,000 in stolen Nike cargo recovered near Chicago after a fraudulent pickup

From AI in freight and trucking fraud to cargo theft, diesel prices, CDL enforcement and highway chaos, we’re breaking down what matters, asking the questions freight should be asking, and keeping an eye on what’s changing across transportation.

Do You Even Freight? — Freight news, industry conversation, and a little controlled chaos.

On this episode of DO YOU EVEN FREIGHT?, we break down the transportation stories making headlines, including severe weather and freight disruptions in Utah, the dramatic semi-truck crashes on I-80 in California and I-71 in Cincinnati, and what these incidents reveal about heavy-truck crash response, recovery, hazmat operations and traffic management.

John takes us into the regulatory side with NHTSA’s latest interpretation of its authority over heavy-duty truck fuel-efficiency regulations, including the agency’s position that it can regulate commercial vehicles as complete vehicles but not standalone engines or components independently.

Then we get into our Topic of the Day: Busy ≠ Productive. Logistics runs on urgency — emails, calls, Teams messages, tracking loads, missed appointments, customer demands and fires that need putting out. But when everything becomes an emergency, are we actually being productive? We’re talking about the difference between reacting all day and doing the work that actually moves a freight business forward.

And for today’s Red Flag: approximately 40,000 pounds of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer was stolen in California in two similar cargo-theft incidents involving allegedly fraudulent carrier documents.

Plus: Freight Dictionary, Hot Load, Community Corner, live viewer comments, industry shout-outs and the Question of the Day:

What’s the biggest thing in logistics that gets treated like an emergency — but really isn’t?

DO YOU EVEN FREIGHT? covers the stories, regulations, conversations and chaos shaping trucking, freight, logistics, transportation and the supply chain — with real talk and a little personality.

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Topics: trucking news, freight news, logistics news, transportation news, supply chain, semi-truck crashes, commercial trucking, NHTSA, heavy-duty trucks, cargo theft, freight rail, trucking regulations, logistics productivity, freight industry

John digs into FMCSA’s latest Hours-of-Service pilot program update and the bigger question behind proposed changes to the 14-hour clock: would additional flexibility actually give truck drivers more control over their day, or simply create more time for shippers and receivers to hold them up?

Then things get a little more Friday.

We get into the bizarre attempted semi-trailer theft involving a Chevy pickup, a fifth wheel, chains and a stack of doomed cinderblocks before turning to the Topic of the Day: The Load That Taught You the Most — and Still Pisses You Off.

Every driver, dispatcher, broker and freight professional has that load — the one that went sideways, cost money, burned time, ruined sleep or permanently changed the way they do business. We talk about who really dropped the ball, what those nightmare loads teach you, the warning signs you learn to recognize and the rules you never break again.

Kevin’s Hot Load takes us to I-10 near Beaumont, Texas, where an oversized load struck an overpass and came off the trailer — while another commercial vehicle reportedly struck a second overpass just miles away.

Plus: Freight Dictionary, Red Flag, Community Corner, trucking industry commentary, viewer reactions and the usual Finally Friday chaos.

Do You Even Freight? is a Kiss This Media podcast covering trucking news, freight and logistics, FMCSA regulations, transportation policy, truck drivers, brokers, dispatchers, carriers, freight markets, infrastructure and the stories shaping the transportation industry.

Driverless freight is pulling in serious money, a fatal Minnesota crash raises questions about road rage and professional responsibility, diesel prices remain under the microscope — and today’s bigger conversation asks a question every transportation professional should think about:

What is your name worth when the company logo behind you disappears?

On this episode of Do You Even Freight?, Shimmi and John break down the latest news and conversations shaping trucking, freight and logistics.

We look at Gatik’s $200 million Series D funding round and what growing investment in autonomous middle-mile freight could signal about the future of driverless commercial transportation.

Then, a disturbing case out of Minnesota: a semi-truck driver is accused of intentionally swerving to prevent a motorcyclist from passing, resulting in a fatal crash. The incident opens a larger discussion about road rage, professional responsibility and the consequences of using a commercial motor vehicle aggressively.

John also delivers the weekly diesel price update, including national and regional movement and what changing fuel costs mean for carriers and owner-operators.

Topic of the Day: Building Your Name in a Relationship-Driven Industry

Transportation is a small industry — and people remember names.

Shimmi and John talk about building a reputation that survives job changes, company changes and industry shifts. From Shimmi Ships and Freight Signals to John’s Double Broker Bounty Hunter identity, they discuss how relationships, credibility, consistency and trust can become the foundation of a personal brand.

Because companies change. Titles change. Logos change.

Your reputation travels with you.

We’re asking:

If you left your current company tomorrow, how many relationships would still come with you because they trust you?

Plus: Freight Dictionary, John’s Red Flag, Comment of the Day and transportation community shout-outs.

Audience Question:
What is one thing you want people in transportation to associate with your name?

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Covering trucking news, freight news, logistics, transportation, autonomous trucking, driverless freight, diesel prices, trucking safety, commercial vehicle news, freight brokers, carriers, owner-operators, personal branding, transportation networking and freight industry trends.

Bring your coffee and your opinions.

Today’s episode came with a little live-show improvising.

With Shimmi absent, Michelle Hutchinson, host of Your Voice, stepped in to help lead the conversation. We also brought Amy Kirn up from the comments to join us live and add a dispatcher’s perspective to one of the biggest conversations happening in freight right now.

This week, we’re covering the abrupt departure of American Trucking Associations President and CEO Chris Spear, plus an Arizona semi rollover involving a load of sunflower seeds and a driver arrested on suspicion of DUI.

Then we get into today’s Hot Topic:

Are independent dispatchers being pushed out of freight?

As brokers tighten carrier-vetting and fraud-prevention requirements, legitimate third-party dispatch services are increasingly getting caught in the middle. Is this necessary fraud prevention—or are small carriers losing an important resource they rely on to compete?

With Amy joining the discussion from a dispatcher perspective, we dig into what these changes actually look like from the people working inside the freight cycle.

Plus Freight Dictionary, Hot Load, Red Flag, industry shout-outs, and more from the DYEF crew.

☕ Bring your coffee and your opinions.

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Do You Even Freight? wraps up the week in trucking, freight and logistics with a look at freight rates, tightening capacity, carrier financial pressure, roadway safety, and the latest from FMCSA.

This week, demand remains soft while rates continue to climb and capacity tightens. Bloomberg Intelligence found 44% of surveyed carriers couldn’t operate for 30 days if invoice payments stopped. We’re also looking ahead to CVSA Brake Safety Week, which begins Sunday with additional focus on brake drums and rotors, following a week in which Kiss This Media identified at least 32 U.S. roadway incidents involving semis or tractor-trailers.

John covers FMCSA’s new Customer Relationship Records system, and our Topic of the Day asks:

Has distrust become freight’s new business model?

When did normal due diligence become full-blown detective work? Who should verify whom? Has technology helped fight freight fraud, or has it simply made fraud more sophisticated? And what’s the wildest verification request our hosts have encountered?

Plus, we’ve got Freight Dictionary, Kevin’s Hot Load, John’s Red Flag, and because it’s Finally Friday, we’re putting the heavy workweek away with the “Squidpocalypse of ’26” — more than 20 tons of squid spilled across a Rhode Island roadway.

Kick back, talk freight, and head into the weekend with Do You Even Freight?

For more trucking, freight, logistics and transportation news, visit www.kissthismedia.com.

Today on Do You Even Freight?, we break down the freight and trucking stories driving the industry — including the debate over broker rate transparency and whether carriers should know what shippers actually paid for a load.

We look at the FR8 Solutions lawsuit and settlement, where owner-operators alleged altered rate sheets and underpayment, and ask our Topic of the Day:

Should brokers be required to disclose what the shipper actually paid? And is rate transparency really the answer?

Also on today’s show:

• FR8 Solutions lawsuit and owner-operator pay
• Broker vs. carrier rate transparency
• Rising U.S. diesel fuel prices
• CVSA’s 2026 International Driver Excellence Award recipient Tommy Cash
• Four-truck I-65 crash in Maury County, Tennessee
• Freight news, trucking industry updates and live discussion

Do You Even Freight? brings together trucking, logistics, freight brokerage, transportation news and the conversations affecting carriers, brokers, drivers and shippers.

Presented by Kiss This Media.

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On today’s Do You Even Freight? Morning Show, Shimmi, Kevin and John break down the day-to-day realities on all three sides of the freight equation. What do brokers, carriers and shippers actually deal with? Where do expectations fall apart? And how many of the problems everyone spends Monday morning fixing could have been prevented with better communication?

No side gets the easy seat in freight. This morning, we’re talking about what happens when expectations, information and reality don’t match.

We’re talking training, pay, regulations, technology, working conditions, opportunity — and whether the industry we’re building is one the next generation will even want.

Plus, today’s rundown has a little bit of everything: sea lions make transportation news, Arizona delivers our Hot Load, we’re digging into the New York lawsuit involving DOT and DHS, and John has the AI hardware story in today’s Red Flag.

News, nonsense, regulation, technology — and one big question about where trucking is headed.

It’s Finally Friday.

This morning, we're digging into the federal lawsuit against KLLM Transport Services, where the EEOC alleges female driver trainees were treated differently than their male counterparts during the company's training program.

But the allegations themselves aren't the only thing that caught our attention.

We're also running through the latest industry news, developments affecting drivers and carriers, and the stories we're watching across transportation.

Do You Even Freight? brings freight talk without the filter — trucking news, industry issues and conversations from the people who actually live and work in transportation.

🎙️ New Morning Show episodes throughout the week.

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John, Kevin and Shimmi hit the mic for a rundown of the industry news and headlines getting attention across transportation, including the latest conversation surrounding Landstar.

Then, Michelle Hutchison joins the show to talk freight fraud — what’s happening, how it’s affecting people across the industry, and why brokers, carriers and drivers need to be paying attention.

It’s trucking. It’s logistics. It’s the stories people in freight are actually talking about.

In this episode:
• Industry news and headlines
• The latest on Landstar
• Freight fraud and its impact on the industry
• Michelle Hutchison joins the conversation
• What freight professionals should be watching

In this bonus Q&A episode, Shimmi Munson, John Cantera Jr. and Kevin Bullock answer questions, share their takes and dig into the topics that didn’t fit into the main show. Unscripted, unfiltered and straight from three very different sides of the industry.

You asked. They answered.