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 the app.

And I’ve got a special co-host joining me today: my 9-year-old son Sebastian, who’s going to help us find out whether these guys are building the future of trucking or just getting dad and son to agree on something for once.

And, with Pokemon cargo thefts on the rise, we get a special report from my 12-year old son Ronan.

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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 and the homogenization of everything, Trump and the political tribes, tariffs, West Virginia, outrage-driven news and why it has become so hard for people to simply talk to each other.

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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 Baltimore bridge collapse and catastrophic liability to cargo, cyber, fraud, technology and the next big risk nobody sees coming.

Plus, four fathers-and-sons questions about family, business and what each generation gets right and wrong.

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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 industry partnerships.

Plus: why are top supply chain companies recruiting Auburn students, and what makes the program different?

Check out the program: https://harbert.auburn.edu/about/academic-departments/supply-chain-management.html

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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 companies are leaving on the table, and what importers should be thinking about before they place the PO. Then we put business aside for a minute and settle another kind of global trade war: Manchester City vs. Manchester United.

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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 computer vision can help companies know exactly what came in, what left and who took it.

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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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