🎣 Produce Season Memes
Plus, an Illinois-based trucking company files for bankruptcy, a Memorial Day cargo theft alert, and more.
Happy Hump Day. Yesterday, we hosted our first-ever LinkedIn Live event with Trucker Tools & a produce shipper. We discussed what makes the produce season special, how to prepare as a freight broker, and how a produce shipper finds the right freight brokers to work with. There was also a produce season meme contest. Scroll to the main story to see which memes won.
🤔 Question of the Day: A study from FreightWaves and FlockFreight showed that __% of truckloads in 2023 ran partially empty, wasting an average of 29 feet of deck space. Find out in our What's Cookin' in Freight section.
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