🎣 FreightCaviar Wrapped 2024

We’re doing our own FreightCaviar Wrapped, highlighting the top newsletters, podcasts, and memes of 2024.

🎣 FreightCaviar Wrapped 2024

Happy Friday Eve. With Spotify Wrapped dropping this week, we’re doing our own FreightCaviar Wrapped, highlighting the top newsletters, podcasts, and memes of 2024.

We’re also excited to welcome HappyRobot as one of our lead sponsors. Yesterday, they announced a $15.6 million Series A raise, led by the renowned VC firm a16z.

Next Monday, December 9th, we’re releasing our podcast featuring Javier & Pablo Palafox, brothers originally from Madrid who now live in San Francisco. They gave us a demo of their product for freight brokerages, and it’s a game-changer. It’s also one of the most entertaining episodes we’ve ever recorded!

Check out their press release here, and don’t miss the podcast on Monday.


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These newsletters brought in the most new subscribers.

1. 🎣 Inside TQL: Growth, Expansion, and Controversy

🎣 Inside TQL: Growth, Expansion, and Controversy
Ken Oaks, the man behind TQL, is now the richest man in Cincinnati with a net worth of $980M.

2. 🎣 MoLo & ArcBest Lawsuit

🎣 MoLo & ArcBest Lawsuit
Plus, we have received insider information from an affected freight brokerage indicating that overseas scammers are currently executing a sophisticated heist.

3. 🎣 Freight Heist Update

🎣 Freight Heist Update
This is truly one of the wildest stories in freight brokerage and trucking that we have ever covered.

4. 🎣 2024's Top Freight Brokers

🎣 2024’s Top Freight Brokers
“The industry is dominated by the largest freight brokerages. Our estimates show the largest 150 freight brokerages account for 70% of the industry’s gross revenues.”

5. 🎣 Inside Landstar: How They Make a Ton of Money

🎣 Inside Landstar: How They Make a Ton of Money
Landstar is one of the largest transportation companies in the U.S. and, from a broker’s perspective, also one of the most criticized.

These podcasts had the highest combined YouTube views and Apple Podcasts/ Spotify downloads.

1. Carrier411 CEO Darren Brewer on Freight Fraud Prevention

2. Roman Velychko & Max Nikiforets, Co-Founders of Critical Brokerage Services

  • We flew out with Bob (@usa_transportation) all the way to Vancouver, WA to record this one in January. Watch the interview on YouTube or listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

3. Marco Vargas-Avila & Anthony Fecarotta: How to Land Shippers

4. Mastering Freight Brokerage Sales with Will Jenkins

5. Aleks Bates on Dispatching US Trucks from Serbia

  • We recorded this episode in Belgrade, Serbia, back in March. By the way, our Serbia documentary drops on Christmas Eve—stay tuned, it’s going to be great! Watch the interview on YouTube or listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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Here, we focused solely on Instagram. These are the memes that received the most likes this year:

1. Strong Solo Sergey Wins Presidency

2) TQL, Echo, CH Robinson, Coyote, Landstar

Shoutout to Reed Loustalot for making this one.

3. Dispatchers In Serbia

4. DAT Engineers When Their Website Works

5. "I'M GOING TO FREIGHTGUARD YOU"

And there you have it—FreightCaviar Wrapped 2024! Thank you for reading our newsletter and engaging with our content this year. We’ve got big plans for 2025 and can’t wait to share what we’ve been working on.


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