The Freight Pod
Hosted by Andrew Silver
The Freight Pod is a deep dive into the journeys of the transportation and logistics industry’s brightest minds and innovators. The show is hosted by Andrew Silver, former founder and CEO of MoLo Solutions, one of the fastest-growing freight brokerages in the industry. His guests will be CEOs, founders, executives, and leaders from some of the most successful freight brokerages, trucking companies, manufacturers, and technology companies that support this great industry. Andrew will interview his guests with a focus on their life and how they got to where they are today, unlocking the key ingredients that helped them develop into the leaders they are now. He will also bring to light the fascinating stories that helped mold and shape his experiences.
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Recent episodes
Ep. #90: Lean Solutions Group Acquires Rapido - CEO Jack Freker and Danny Frisco
· 1 hr 20 min
Rates spike, margins shrink, and every “simple” load turns into an exception at the worst possible time. That’s why we sat down with Danny (Rapido) and Jack (Lean Solutions Group) to get brutally practical about what actually helps freight brokers and 3PLs scale right now: a human-in-the-loop model
Ep. #89: Aaron Graft, Founder and CEO, Triumph
· 1 hr 24 min
Buying a bank during a meltdown sounds like a bad idea until you hear what it takes to survive it. We talk with Triumph’s CEO about growing up in small-town Oklahoma, sprinting through Big Law, and then walking away from the safe path with a young family and almost no margin for error. What follows
Ep. #88: Tom Madine, CEO, ShipStation Global
· 1 hr 49 min
From a live, in-person Chicago studio, we sit down with Tom Madine to unpack what real scale looks like in transportation, and why SMB shipping is still one of the most misunderstood corners of logistics. Tom shares his path from early sales roles into building Worldwide Express, then zooms out to t
Ep. #87: Jett McCandless announces LSP44, the AI agent and infrastructure company built for logistics service providers
· 1 hr 20 min
The freight market changes fast, but a lot of broker operations still look the same: endless check calls, status emails, manual appointment scheduling, missing PODs, and a nonstop flood of “where’s my order” messages. We sat down live with Jett McCandless, founder and CEO of Project44, to make a maj
Ep. #86: Liz Wayne, Founder & CEO, Able Transport Solutions
· 1 hr 30 min
Rates are spiking and the scary part is why. We kick off with a June truckload market update built on real broker payment data, then we zoom in on what the numbers are actually saying: van, reefer, and flatbed buy rates are surging year over year, but freight demand is not the headline. Capacity is.
Ep. #85: Ryan Soskin, Founder & CEO, GoodShip
· 1 hr 22 min
Freight procurement is still stuck in a world of portals, spreadsheets, and three-month RFP cycles, even though the freight market can flip in weeks. I’m joined by Ryan Soskin, CEO and founder of GoodShip, to unpack why that gap creates expensive surprises for shippers and impossible commitments for
Ep. #84: Robby Nathan, Founder & CEO, Envoy AI
· 1 hr 26 min
“AI can negotiate freight rates” is one of those claims that sounds true until you sit on a real brokerage floor and watch what happens. I’m joined by Robby Nathan, founder of Load Delivered, CEO of Envoy AI, and a longtime freight operator, to break down what separates automation that actually help
Ep. #83: Ken Adamo joins Ease Logistics as Chief Strategy Officer
· 1 hr 6 min
A major freight market intelligence leader is leaving DAT for a brokerage and he’s explaining exactly why. Ken Adamo joins me and Peter Coratola to talk about what most people misunderstand about DAT, how brokers should actually use spot market data, and why the best teams treat analytics as decisio
Ep. #82: Alan Holland, Founder & CEO, Keelvar
· 1 hr 25 min
Freight buying has a dirty secret: most bids do a great job of finding the lowest number and a terrible job of finding the best outcome. When shippers reward price without measuring service, good carriers get punished, bad actors slip through, and procurement teams spend weeks in spreadsheets trying
Ep. #81: Chris Ceausu, CEO, White Arrow
· 1 hr 28 min
Freight is a physical business, but the decisions that make or break a carrier feel more digital every month. I sit down with Chris Ceausu, CEO of White Arrow, to unpack what it really takes to run a complex transportation network across intermodal reefer containers, cross-dock facilities, volume LT