Dooner Show

Nikola was supposed to change trucking forever. On Dooner Show, we’re sitting down with Jason Roycht, a longtime Nikola executive, to get the inside story of the company’s rise, the Trevor Milton scandal, and the collapse of a company that was trying to reinvent the big rig. What was real, what was hype, and could Nikola have survived?

(Disclaimer: At 11:05 Jason was saying that Milton was sentenced to 4 years. The gover...

Most of us get in the car, punch an address into Google Maps, and go. But when you’re driving an 80,000-pound truck, a wrong turn can become a very big problem. Today, we’re talking to Robert Philips, he is a part of a father-and-son team building Highway Miles, a free GPS app designed specifically for truckers. Robert recently got a CDL after retiring from the world of tech in order to help his son, Justin build out th...

EP21: The freight industry celebrates the hustle, the money and the wins. But what happens when addiction threatens to take it all away? Connor Miller and Tim Dooner get personal about their journeys through addiction and recovery, getting sober, and rebuilding their lives with new purpose. They discuss the realities of early recovery, the challenges of earning back trust, and why they’re willing to share stories that too man...

Andrew Donaldson has a pretty interesting history with Brad Jacobs: he worked at Con-way when Jacobs bought the company, and Andrew was fired in the aftermath. Now, more than a decade later, Jacobs’ RXO is being sold to C.H. Robinson for $5.8 billion. So what does Andrew make of the deal and the wild evolution of the freight industry since Con-way?

From there, we go way beyond freight: the death of the media monoculture, AI an...

Four generations of freight experience collide on the Dooner Show as my dad, Jerry Dooner, joins me alongside Jim Nerger of Roanoke Insurance Group and his son Craig Nerger of Fortress Logistics Insurance. We go old school on maritime insurance, how the freight world has changed, and what today’s insurance industry looks like compared with the one our dads knew.

Then we tackle the risks reshaping transportation today: from the...

Auburn’s supply chain program is producing the people who will actually run the supply chains of tomorrow. What’s it really like to be a student there—and why are students traveling to major industry conferences, getting global exposure and working directly with supply chain leaders?

We’ll go inside Auburn’s supply chain ecosystem, from the Center for Supply Chain Innovation to alumni support and indust...

Tariff turmoil has made importing more complicated, expensive and unpredictable, and customs brokers are sitting right in the middle of it. Cameron Bell and Ufuk Dede of Greenwich Mercantile join Dooner Show to talk about how AI can help importers navigate classification, duty savings, landed costs and an increasingly chaotic global trade environment.

We get into the future of customs brokerage, whether AI can actually find money co...

The yard may be the most important part of the supply chain that nobody talks about. Matt Yearling, CEO of YMX Logistics, joins Dooner Show to talk autonomous yard trucks, AI, safety, the evolution beyond traditional YMS platforms and why the yard is becoming a massive technology and operational battleground.

We’ll also get into the darker side of the yard: cargo theft, fake pickups, digital chain of custody and how AI and com...

What happens when a perfectly loaded trailer turns into a freight disaster? Krista Guillory and Paul Preston of Kick Stops join Dooner Show to break down shifting pallets, bad load patterns, trailer-loading disasters, and the hidden forces beating up your freight in transit.

We get into why Kick Stops was created, why small gaps can become big problems, and how better loading and securement can keep freight from arriving wrecked.

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AI is coming for freight brokerage but is it actually making the industry better?

Eric Williams, CEO and co-founder of Beagl AI, joins Tim Dooner on Dooner Show to dig into the good, bad and downright annoying sides of AI in freight.

We get into the explosion of brokerage voice bots, whether carriers actually want to talk to machines, where automation can genuinely make brokers more efficient, and where human relationships still matt...

Diesel prices are crushing trucking and you can’t control the price of fuel. But you can control what happens to every gallon after you buy it. Kenneth Eggen joins Dooner Show to dig into fuel efficiency, fleet maintenance and the data that can reveal whether a fleet is healthy or quietly bleeding money.

We’ll also get into the rumored October 1 trucker strike circulating across social media: where the chatter is coming ...

Could we legally build a brand-new 1999 Peterbilt today? Roleigh Martin joins Dooner to dig into expired patents, trucking regulations and whether old-school truck designs could legally make a comeback.

We get into what happens when truck patents expire, which regulations actually stand in the way, what AI revealed during Roleigh’s research, and whether simpler, more repairable trucks could return to the market.

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Jennifer Morris of Ship Happens joins Dooner Show to call bullshit on some of the things happening in freight: from conferences booking zero women speakers to the everyday nonsense women encounter in the industry. 

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Mark and Joanna Russell of Swiss Mountain Farms join the Dooner Show to pull back the curtain on one of the strangest supply chains in food: maple syrup. From 50 taps to nearly 4,000 in just a few years, the Russells have turned a hobby into a growing farm business. 

We get into the journey from tree to bottle, the logistics of collecting and processing thousands of gallons of sap, weather-driven supply volatility, equipment, e...

Nathan Chaney turned a career in freight into something much bigger: Supply Chaney, a growing media, marketing, events and community business built around connecting people and ideas across the supply chain.

On this episode of Dooner Show, Nathan and Dooner get into the changing world of supply-chain media, what companies still don’t understand about content and audience building, the reality behind all the AI hype, and whethe...

Larry Cothran went from behind the wheel to building a massive trucking audience, with more than 100,000 followers and major brand partnerships all by being himself.

On Dooner Show, Larry Cothran and Tim Dooner talk trucking, comedy, social media, the business of being a creator, and what new drivers get wrong about the owner-operator dream.

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Victor Louis of Load Secure joins the Dooner Show for a wide-ranging conversation about trucking’s growing safety, surveillance and regulatory headaches.

Is GenLogs essentially Flock cameras for freight? We dig into how truck-tracking data is being collected, how it can be used to map lanes and competitors, and where the line is between cargo security and spying.

We also get into the recent Amazon plane and truck crashes, the o...

Michael Lewis has spent his career behind the scenes of live music: touring with artists, running audio, and figuring out how to move an insane amount of gear from one venue to the next. Now he’s bringing that same problem-solving mindset to freight with Truck Packer, a technology platform designed to make loading and planning freight less of a game of Tetris.

We talk about the crazy logistics behind touring, how a road case p...

Dan Abel Jr., Chief Chocolate Officer of Bissinger’s and Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Company, grew up in his parents’ St. Louis candy kitchen, went off to college, and came home to a $10-an-hour job. In 2019 his family bought Bissinger’s, a chocolatier that traces to Paris in 1668, King Louis XIV, and recipes still pulled from an 1899 cookbook.

This episode is his story first, then the brand’s: why they bo...