Beyond Manual Dispatch & Predictive Safety | WHAT THE TRUCK?!?

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Malcolm Harris (1:07)

Welcome to the Enterprise Fleet Summit Edition of What The Truck?! out of Dallas, Texas. Michael Vincent, where are we, brother?

Michael Vincent (1:15)

We're actually in Alliance, just north of Fort Worth, bro.

Malcolm Harris (1:19)

Just north of Fort Worth. Texas looks good on you, bro. I think so too.

Michael Vincent (1:22)

You look fantastic, my friend.

Malcolm Harris (1:23)

I feel great. Do you? Yeah, it's an awesome time. I've had great, shout out to PCS.

Michael Vincent (1:28)

Yeah, yeah.

Malcolm Harris (1:29)

They were fantastic here out in Texas. And I was like, you know what? I should do a show. And it makes a lot of sense.

Michael Vincent (1:35)

It makes a ton of sense. I mean, it makes no sense not to do a show today.

Malcolm Harris (1:39)

No, no. I was like, you know what? We got some big things in it. Of course, for those that do not know, again, we are live from the FreightWaves Enterprise Fleet Summit. So put this in perspective, guys. This is, of course, operations that scale a comprehensive online event designed for enterprise trucking fleet managers. All right, you got executives, professionals, talking about this business cycle, fluctuating capacity, and much more. So this summit is going to provide the what's what for the who's who's, the how's how's, and the wise ones.

Michael Vincent (2:06)

That's crazy.

Malcolm Harris (2:07)

Yeah, man. I love it, man. Just like that.

Michael Vincent (2:09)

I didn't know we were doing a special event.

Malcolm Harris (2:10)

Yeah, absolutely.

Michael Vincent (2:12)

From what to Truck West at 146 Media Studios.

Malcolm Harris (2:14)

146, this is beautiful, by the way. Is it great? This is absolutely gorgeous. You love it? I am in love with it. This is really nice.

Michael Vincent (2:21)

You get to take home that Spartan armor.

Malcolm Harris (2:23)

I'm going to be ready. Put it on top.

Michael Vincent (2:25)

I'll tell you what's goofy about it.

Malcolm Harris (2:27)

What's that?

Michael Vincent (2:27)

Look at this setup here. You are not smaller than me.

Malcolm Harris (2:31)

But I look it.

Michael Vincent (2:32)

But I noticed that as well.

Malcolm Harris (2:34)

I was like, wow, I see this.

Michael Vincent (2:36)

Makes me look like a giant.

Malcolm Harris (2:37)

And I was like, okay.

Michael Vincent (2:38)

I don't know why.

Malcolm Harris (2:39)

I was like, okay, this is good though.

We got two great guests for you guys today for the Enterprise Fleet Summit. I want to take you guys to them right now. Looking at on deck, first up is going to be Chris Hines. He's the CEO of Repowr. Nearly 40 years in transportation and tech, including 17 at GE Capital and much more. He is running a huge operation at Repowr. He's joining us to break down TOP, which is Repowr's trailer optimization platform, the industry's first system built to actually execute trailer repositioning instead of just analyzing it. We're going to get into that. He's going to talk about his time and much more. I'm excited to speak with him. Then also turning idle trailers into real revenue instead of just dead weight. So this is going to be a good one. Yeah, Chris is a dog. But in the show, we're going to have Hayden Cardiff. He is the VP of Safety Solutions at Descartes, joining us to break down the gap between compliance and actual safety. So a clean CSA score and a stack of past audits don't just guarantee, again, a fleet, which is just sitting when it comes to real crash risks. All right, so we're going to dig into predicting risky behavior that comes before crash and then coaching drivers without turning this actually into something that is leading, right? And talking fleets that aren't just measuring up to those that are still in play. All right, so between Hayden as well as Chris, it is going to be a fantastic show, but we couldn't do it without our sponsors, our special sponsors of the Enterprise Fleet Summit.

Michael Vincent (4:11)

All right. We got special ones?

Malcolm Harris (4:12)

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Michael Vincent (4:13)

Well, all our sponsors are special.

Malcolm Harris (4:14)