The $3.5M Amazon Ghost Trailer Scam (And Why Peak Season Started Early) | WHAT THE TRUCK?!?

Malcolm Harris (0:38)

It's good to see each and every single one of you all, wherever you're getting this podcast. I really appreciate it. It kinda got a sneeze.

I wanted it to go away. Okay, it went away. All right, so what's up? Welcome to What The Truck? Again, Malcolm Harris. I'm going to be joined very soon by my partner in crime, the dude Michael Vincent, but it's a Friday edition of the show, The Fastest 45 Minutes in Freight. We've got some great stuff on the way for you guys because we've got two great guests as we head into the weekend, some headlines to tackle and much more. Speaking of guests, let's get to on deck and see who we are talking to today. Our first guest is going to be none other than the man, Adam Kahn. He is in the mix with me. He is the Chief Business Development Officer at Netradyne. Love the team at Netradyne. He's joining us to talk about the quest for zero. All right, we've gotten really good at bragging about 50, 70, and even 80% fewer accidents, but Adam, he is arguing we may be measuring the wrong thing. We're gonna get into what zero actually means, why the last 20% preventable accidents is the hardest to eliminate, and how fleets can bring drivers into the conversation. So safety technology feels like protection and not surveillance. And then also ending the show with me, he is Silkey Smooth. Ari Silkey is going to be in the mix with me. He is the Chief Operating Officer at TEN10. And he is joining us to break down why this peak season is coming a little bit early. Retailers are pulling imports forward by four to six weeks. Trailer orders nearly doubled year over year. And they are adding 3,000 new drive vans to push its fleet past 85,000 trailers. Holy smokes. We're going to dig into whether the trailer is the next bottleneck, what a longer peak does to equipment planning, and what fleet managers should lock down before Q4 gets any deeper. So, I got the A's with me. I got Ari. I got Adam. And I got the dude, Michael Vincent. Mike, what's up, boy?

Michael Vincent (2:39)

What's going on, man?

Malcolm Harris (2:40)

Listen, man. How you doing?

Michael Vincent (2:42)

I've been here the whole time, man, watching you, bro. You got that small head shirt on.

Malcolm Harris (2:48)

I feel like I'm loud. I'm sorry. That was bad. That was a bad laugh. I sound like the Pillsbury Doughboy.

Come on, be a professional. Don't be the real you out here.

Michael Vincent (2:56)

All right. I love you, brother.

Malcolm Harris (3:01)

I love you, too, brother.

Michael Vincent (3:02)

My tribe tied it up last night, bro.

Malcolm Harris (3:05)

Listen, listen. The White Sox, they look... Okay, God, do not enable this man, guys. Don't enable him by putting that on the screen.

The White Sox look shook right now, to say the least. They look like they're a team filled with a bunch of rookies. But listen, I need...

Michael Vincent (3:22)

They didn't look that way for two nights in Cleveland. They look...

Malcolm Harris (3:25)

No, they didn't.

Michael Vincent (3:26)

They look like they didn't know what the hell we're doing.

Malcolm Harris (3:27)

I think they like adversity or something like that. It's just like close out the series. Like, what are y'all doing? Like, it's crazy. Mayor Comey is swinging at God knows what.

It feels like my man Colson Montgomery can't find it either. Miguel Vargas. It's a lot of... That lineup is really going to be good. I just think they might need this one lesson in order to come back stronger, better, faster. That's why Daft Punk said.

Michael Vincent (3:53)

Who knows?

Who knows, man? It's baseball. It's sports, it's why to play the games, bro.

Malcolm Harris (3:59)

Shout out to Tristan, man. His Dodgers sent a message. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, we'll see. We got the best pitching matchup.

Michael Vincent (4:10)

Sorry about that, Breeze.

Malcolm Harris (4:11)

Yeah, we got the best pitching matchup tonight, which you got the Milwaukee Brewers taking on the Dodgers, so you got Scooball as well as JM on the mound. It's gonna be...

This game might be 0-0 with 15 innings, man.

Michael Vincent (4:26)

Yeah, you know, I don't know. I mean, what Scooballs, like his return to Detroit was, didn't he get knocked around pretty good?

Malcolm Harris (4:35)

He got knocked for sure. But like, I just I think guys like him and JM., they both like lock in whenever it's like, kind of like a dude.

Michael Vincent (4:44)