Adam Wingfield

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I'm your host, Adam Wingfield, bringing you insights from industry leaders, real world success stories and strategies to help you navigate the road to profitability.

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Does it work? Does it pay for itself? Does it make trucking safer, or did somebody just put a shiny new price tag on yesterday's BS? That's what we're gonna talk about today after the daily pileup with Matt McLELLAND of Covenant Logistics, who puts the loaded semi-truck from Tesla through California's grapevine to see whether the technology could handle the real-world application.

Then Enrique Allen Marr of Sim Experts, a guy who's crashed more trucks than most people have driven and somehow never filed an insurance claim.

One tests the machines, the other trains the humans, and both better prove their worth 'cause this is their brake check moment, and we're about to go full stop.

But first, a message from our sponsors over at Apex Capital.

Uh, but now it's time for our daily pileup.

All right, and, uh, up first on today's daily pileup, well, we're gonna talk a little bit about, uh, what's going on out there.

Like, uh, this clip that we're gonna have right here from our guy, The Disrespected Trucker.

[truck rumbling] Sitting alongside on the shoulder, broke down, and barely anybody could move over.

but everybody in memphis got the latest i

heard i heard what i said i was like let me let me let me walk this back uh i love i love the m i want no disrespect uh but yeah you'll see it and uh you know we talked about it as a friend of college he was like yeah like you know legitimately like people you know uh you know break into these real cars and get this new merchandise and it kind of uh takes a hit with nike uh quite a bit so yeah completely get what you're coming from um read more on this by the way guys for those that uh want more information freightwaves.com you guys know where to get it um we've talked about this next article in detail but this is a different take on this and this is from mr adam wingfield so you guys remember that we talked about this rico case all right and uh this was again six trucking companies suing ch robinson and tqo in federal court in texas Alleging the brokers benefited from working with carriers that use things like forced labors, fake logs, safety shortcuts to operate at lower cost.

All right.

So the Rico case, all right, isn't just saying you did something illegal.

The defense is likely to say that there's too many steps.

And that's where the 2006 Supreme Court case comes in.

And this is what Adam Wingfield highlighted in this.

This was Anza versus Ideal Steel Supply Corporation.

Um, read more on this, by the way, guys, for those that, uh, want more information, freightwaves.com. You guys know where to get it.

Um, we've talked about this next article in detail, but this is a different take on this, and this is from Mr. Adam Wingfield.

So you guys remember that we talked about this RICO case.

All right.

For a civil RICO scheme, uh, what, what it is, is the plaintiffs have to establish an underlying pattern of qualifying criminal activity and then demonstrate that they were injured by reason of that conduct.

So essentially, the plaintiffs are saying that this illegal, non-compliant carrier behavior, cheaper transportation, brokers won the freight, legitimate carriers lose their freight, we lost revenue.

The defense is likely to say that there's too many steps, and that's where the 2006 Supreme Court case comes in, and this is what Adam Wingfield highlighted in this.

This was Anza versus Ideal Steel Supply Corporation, all right? A steel company sued a competitor under RICO.