Happy New Year! Decided to kick off the year with my good friend Justin Martin, who served 15 years as a truck driver, now working in digital media/advertising. We dive into the current hot topics in freight like our friend Lee Schmitt who has applied to head the FMCSA, the twitter war over H1B visas, and another looming port strike.

As always we also engage with live comments, which can lead to conversations on why Earth is the best planet ever.

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In this episode I run through what felt like the longest and best year of my life. Coming off the heels of where I needed to mount a major comeback after failure in 2023, I rolled into 2024 with no set goals, but a direction.

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Sean Matthews has years of experience in brokerage, and Artier at Law has been practicing law for 15 years mainly involving the transportation industry. They joined with Aleks Bates who has a wealth of dispatching experience to create Carrier Defender, a motor carrier advocacy company with the mission of helping carriers defend themselves against negative reviews that can many times put a carrier out of business. In the wild Wild West of freight with fraud running rampant, and so much communication done virtually, sometimes the human aspect of things get lost, and Carrier Defender looks to change that issue!

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