June 21, 2021· 60 min

The Trucking Episode: Why the Industry Is Such a Mess

Orality
Model
50%

Speaker Breakdown

HostJoe Weisenthal(1,603 words)
M:29%
HostTracy Alloway(1,734 words)
M:29%
GuestCraig Fuller(6,912 words)
M:93%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic55%
obviously, huge, very
Engagement57%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, so, like
Repetition100%
like (94x), trucking (89x), it's (87x)
Parallelism100%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., So, Tracy, we've obviously bee..., So we started with container s...
Sound Patterns36%
39 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases5%
you know what, i mean, if you will

Literate Indicators

Hedging5%
could, probably, maybe
Passive Voice6%
is indeed, be sued, be enticed
Abstract Nouns13%
investment, business, notion
Subordination6%
although, because, while
Sentence Length45%
Avg: 16.3 words/sentence
Word Complexity47%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style43%
624 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style96%
apply, obviously, supply

Description

You can't talk about the problems in logistics and supply chains right now without talking about trucking. Once goods are unloaded from ships, trucks are the dominant mode of domestic freight. However, unlike shipping, the trucking industry was something of a mess even before the pandemic: prone to extreme labor problems and rapid boom/bust cycles. On this episode, we speak with Craig Fuller, the CEO of the information and data firm FreightWaves, to discuss the current and long-term state of the industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.