It is hump day, which means it’s the best day of the week—the release of the weekly American Association of Railroads (AAR) tonnage index! In this packed episode, we dive deep into the legal and insurance crises gripping the freight industry, analyze how extreme heatwaves are altering refrigerated shipping, track global energy volatility, and break down the massive intermodal surge redefining logistics. Featured Guests: Ted Bassett – Head of the Personal Injury Law Firm Group at Merrick Niles Openheimer – Chief Revenue Officer at CoverWell Matt Munster – Chief Economist at Breakthrough Bill Stevens – Editor and Writer at Trains Magazine / Trains Pro ⁠Follow the FreightWaves Today Podcast⁠ ⁠Other FreightWaves Shows⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FreightWaves Today | July 1

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Welcome to FreightWaves. Today it is hump day. It's also the best day of the week, which is the weekly American Association Railroad's weekly tonnage index. We're going to get to that later in the show, so stay tuned. We're going to find out how the industrial economy is performing.

Our guest today, we have a lot of things to talk about. We're going to dive deep into the insurance conversation and the liability conversation, something that's getting a lot of news, a lot of attention since Montgomery, but it's also these nuclear lawsuits that keep piling up.

We're going to dive into that today. We've got folks from the insurance industry, we've got folks from the legal practice. They're going to tell us all about how to interpret these various events that keep piling up. It feels like so much is happening, Malcolm. So much is coming to a head right now as we are in the thick of it of Super Bowl week and trucking. And yeah, it's a lot. We've got a lot to get to.

In the United States, this is a heat advisory. We'll talk about the impact of that on freight. Refrigerated is absolutely hot. Oh, I like the fun that you just made. See? I got the notes. You're on it. You're on it. I got it. I got it. I bring it every day here at Freightways today. But what's interesting about that is that now, because it's so hot, 114 degrees, which I'll talk about on my sonar update. Of course. 114 degree heat advisory inside of sonar.

FreightWaves Today | July 1

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The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.

FreightWaves Today | July 1

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.