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Oct 1, 2026
Zach StricklandHOST
Welcome back to Freight Waves Today, or Freightonomics, [laughs] uh, depending on how you're viewing it.
Zach StricklandHOST
Uh, Zack Strickland, head of Market Intelligence at Sonar, and I am joined by Thomas Wasson today, who's gonna fill in for my compadre, DJ, who has got some personal business to tend to.
Zach StricklandHOST
But Thomas, you know, we're gonna sit here and we're gonna, we're gonna work through.
Zach StricklandHOST
DJ was at least kind enough to give me some economic notes.
Zach StricklandHOST
We had a big release week, um, for those of you following the freight market and the economy, which is of course the idea of our show.
Thomas WassonHOST
Yeah.
Zach StricklandHOST
You know, we turn the, uh, calendar.
Zach StricklandHOST
Malcolm and I talked about it on, on Freight Waves Today today, but Thomas, like you, you remember October was kinda like, you know, you had this end of quarter push at, in September.
Charles GracieHOST
So check your mirrors, check your pants, and, uh, well, it's Thursday's edition of Brake Check right here on Freight Waves.
Charles GracieHOST
Today, we're gonna be talking to Freight Waves truck tech analyst Thomas Wasson, fresh off Trimble insight floor in San Diego, with the receipts on what carriers are doing and what's working with this technology.
Charles GracieHOST
But then, you know, after the daily pileup, we got Tenstreet's Christie Joyce in the house.
Charles GracieHOST
She knows every button inside the Tenstreet machine, including the ones you're paying for and never pressing.
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Charles GracieHOST
He loves to nerd out on this stuff.
Charles GracieHOST
He knows when somebody's probably losing money because they're not using the tech that they paid for.
Charles GracieHOST
Thomas Wasson is a FreightWaves Enterprise Trucking Analyst, host of Truck Tech and Loaded and Rolling, and most importantly, he's actually worked inside the trucking industry before getting paid to critique it, uh, unlike everybody else.
Charles GracieHOST
He just got back from Trimble Insight.
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Malcolm HarrisHOST
You're gonna be, uh, joined, of course, by Zach Strickland, as well as Thomas Wasson, for all the latest and greatest when it comes to market insights, trends, and much more.
Malcolm HarrisHOST
So make sure that you guys stick around only here on Freight Waves today.
Malcolm HarrisHOST
Huge thanks to today's OTR sponsor, again, OTR Solutions.
Zach StricklandHOST
live.freightwaves.com.[upbeat music] All right.
Zach StricklandHOST
Welcome back to Freight Waves Today or Freightonomics, uh [laughs], depending on how you're viewing it.
Zach StricklandHOST
Uh, Zach Strickland, head of market intelligence at Sonar, and I am joined by Thomas Wasson today, who's gonna fill in for my compadre, DJ, who has got some personal business to tend to.
Zach StricklandHOST
But Thomas, you know, we're gonna sit here and we're gonna, we're gonna work through.
Charles GraceyHOST
So check your mirrors, check your pants, and, uh, well, it's Thursday's edition of Brake Check right here on Freight Waves.
Charles GraceyHOST
Today we're gonna be talking to Freight Waves truck tech analyst Thomas Wasson, fresh off Trimble insight floor in San Diego with the receipts on what carriers are doing and what's working with this technology.
Charles GraceyHOST
But then, you know, after the daily pileup, we got Tenstreet's Kristi Joyce in the house.
Charles GraceyHOST
She knows every button inside the Tenstreet machine, including the ones you're paying for and never pressing.
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Charles GraceyHOST
He loves to nerd out on this stuff.
Charles GraceyHOST
He knows when somebody's probably losing money because they're not using the tech that they paid for.
Charles GraceyHOST
Thomas Wasson is a FreightWaves Enterprise Trucking Analyst, host of Truck Tech and Loaded and Rolling, and most importantly, he's actually worked inside the trucking industry before getting paid to critique it, uh, unlike everybody else.
Charles GraceyHOST
He just got back from Trimble Insight.
Zach StricklandHOST
back to FreightWaves today, or Freightonomics, depending on how you're viewing it.
Zach StricklandHOST
Zach Strickland, head of market intelligence at Sonar, and I am joined by Thomas Wasson today, who's going to fill in for my compadre, DJ, who has got some personal business to tend to, but Thomas.
Zach StricklandHOST
You know, we're going to sit here and we're going to work through.
Zach StricklandHOST
DJ was at least kind enough to give me some economic notes.
John KingstonGUEST
They're in, uh, they're rolling out some new trucks.
John KingstonGUEST
Um, Thomas Wasson usually goes, but I'm gonna go in his place.
John KingstonGUEST
Then I'm heading to San Diego for the Trimble users meeting, which I've been to for the last two or three years.
John KingstonGUEST
Always a good one.
Zach StricklandHOST
I'm Zach Strickland, head of Freight Market Intelligence, and joining me for the first half of the hour, our head economist, DJ Donahue, and we're going to break down a few of the large economic releases.
Zach StricklandHOST
And then in the second half, we're going to bring on Thomas Wasson and break down some of the top transportation topics of the day, along with looking at some FMCSA data.
Zach StricklandHOST
A lot of I think probably some of the biggest questions I get, Vijay, recently on the economic side, a lot of it, of course, AI derivative, what is this actually doing? We'll get into that here in a minute.
Zach StricklandHOST
But also just they want to know a lot about what demand's going to do.
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Zach StricklandHOST
All right, welcome back to Freightonomics on this Thursday, September 10th, the day before 9-11.
Zach StricklandHOST
We're bringing back Thomas Wasson for the second half.
Zach StricklandHOST
We're going to talk about some transportation market information, a lot of international stuff.