Logistics Management Podcast

GUEST: Scooter Sayers, Business Development Director – LTL Solutions at Cubiscan
Scooter Sayers is the Business Development Director – LTL Solutions at Cubiscan, a leader in freight dimensioning solutions.  He spends his days speaking with shippers, carriers, and 3PLs to deploy solutions that maximize revenues and profits, minimize costs, and optimize systems.
Following a 25-plus year career at ABF Freight and ArcBest Corporation as a Pricing Analyst, progressing through several positions including Director – Rating & Traffic Services. In this latter role, he held responsibility for 100 employees in the corporate office as well as the Weighing & Research team spread across the ABF Freight network.  He developed the LTL industry’s first density-based tariff in 1993.
Scooter spent 3 years in the 3PL and freight brokerage space with several companies.  He then formed Sayers Logistics LLC, an LTL transportation consultancy, to deliver LTL solutions by working with shippers, carriers, trade organizations, 3PLs, and technology providers to help move the LTL industry forward.  
Scooter Sayers graduated from the University of Arkansas with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and a Master of Business Administration.  He, his wife, and his cat named Princeton currently reside in northeast Georgia.

GUEST: Tony Hatch, Principal, ABH Consulting
A nationally-known freight railroad and intermodal expert, Hatch also examined the the U.S.-Mexico market, railroad policy issues, and key things shippers need to focus on, among other topics.
Tony Hatch has three decades of experience in the freight railroad and transportation sectors, primarily as an analyst. As principal of New York-based ABH Consulting, Hatch has been focused on the freight transportation segment, particularly surface transportation. And he is well-known for his knowledge of the intermodal area, where the various modes of freight transport converge, on which he has held several dozen specialized conferences.

GUESTS: Adi Karamcheti and Paul Yaussy
During this podcast Yaussy and Karamcheti addressed various topics, including: the current state of today's parcel marketplace; the current state of parcel rates and pricing; parcel Peak Season prospects; and how tariffs are impacting the market, among others. 

GUEST: Rob Handfield, Executive Director, North Carolina State Supply Chain Resource Cooperative
During this podcast Handfield addressed various topics, including: the current state of the supply chain; steps and actions shippers should consider related to tariffs; how the supply chain is viewed; the need for supply chain resiliency; and supply chain risk mangement planning, among others. 
Handfield also serves as Executive Director of the North Carolina State Supply Chain Resource Cooperative, which addresses thought leadership and research in the area of supply chain management, within the Poole College of Management, and a member of INFORMS, an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research, management science, and analytics, where he also serves on its expert panel.

GUEST: Keith Prather, Managing Director, Armada Corporate Intelligence
In this podcast Armada Corporate Intelligence Managing Director Keith Prather addressed various topics, including: the current state of the freight economy; tariffs and their impact on the supply chain; inventories and imports; and 2025 Peak Season prospects.
Prather is a Managing Director and Co-founder of Armada Corporate Intelligence. During his 24 years with Armada, he has consulted to Fortune 500 and companies of all sizes providing corporate intelligence, economic forecasting, and insights on changing global dynamics, geopolitics, supply chain issues, and other factors that affect the corporate operating environment.

GUEST: Paul Bingham, S&P Global Market Intelligence Economist
 
In this podcast S&P Global Market Intelligence Economist Paul Bingham touched upon various aspects of the freight economy, including: trade and tariffs; sourcing and nearshoring; inflation; retail sales; and manufacturing, among others. 
 
Bingham manages economic analysis of supply chain transportation and trade for companies and public agencies worldwide. He has extensive experience forecasting modal freight markets in analysis for beneficial cargo owners, carriers, terminal operators and government transportation agencies. His research has included economic impact analysis, quantitative market analysis, scenario forecast modeling for transportation networks and facilities for all modes of freight transportation.

GUEST: Larry Gross, President, Gross Transportation Consulting
 
During this podcast, Gross offered up various observations on the current state of the intermodal transportation market, on both a domestic and intermodal basis.
Topics covered included: new tariffs and their potential impact on intermodal; the current state of the freight economy; and the current state of intermodal service, among others. 
Larry Gross is a forty-year veteran of the freight transportation sector, and President of Gross Transportation Consulting in Durango, CO, an independent consulting practice specializing in freight transportation matters. He is the author and creator of “Intermodal in Depth," an analytical report covering the intermodal sector.

GUEST: Matt Muenster, Chief Economist, Breakthrough
 
In this podcast, Breakthrough's Muenster addressed various topics related to the state of the freight economy, including: the freight economy; tariffs; manufacturing; capacity; inflation; demand patterns; and pricing and rates, among others.  
Matt Muenster is Breakthrough's Chief Economist. Muenster's area of influence spans from forecasting both fuel and freight markets to quantifying global risk factors, and connecting macroeconomics with the everyday experiences of shippers. Using research, industry data, and an understanding of market fundamentals, Muenster informs actionable strategies for some of the world’s largest brands.
Matt’s expertise has been utilized in a variety of different publications including Logistics Management, and he has also been featured in numerous Bloomberg articles.

GUEST: Ian Jefferies, President and CEO of the Association of American Railroads
 
Topics covered in this podcast included: the current state of rail carload and intermodal volumes; railroad service tariffs; and regulatory issues, among others. 
 
Ian Jefferies started in his role leading the AAR in January 2019 and prior to that he served as the senior vice president of AAR’s government affairs, overseeing the development, promotion, and implementation of legislative priorities for the AAR. And before joining the AAR, Jefferies served as a senior policy advisor to the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, from 2009-2013.

GUEST: Jim Tompkins, Chairman, Tompkins Ventures
 
Topics covered in this podcast included: how the concept and practice of ReGlobalization evolves from traditional globalization; the impact of tariffs on logistics planning and operations; and implications of Artificial Intelligence within logistics, among others.