Loaded and Rolling: Talking About Trucking With KSMTA Canada’s Chris Henry

Chris Henry, chief operating officer of KSMTA Canada, recently joined Thomas Wasson, host of FreightWaves TV’s Loaded and Rolling program, to discuss many topics impacting the current trucking environment. Chris shared his thoughts on how the pandemic affected the profitability of trucking companies, and the importance of monitoring and controlling inflationary operating costs that carriers are currently experiencing.

This episode of Loaded and Rolling, “Talking About Trucking With Chris Henry” also covered these important issues:

• Regulations: The effect of the cross-border vaccine mandates for supply chains in the U.S. and Canada
• Canadian Freight Rates: Why the pandemic-induced U.S. ‘rate party’ didn’t translate to a similar upward movement in freight rates for Canadian-domiciled carriers
• Truckload Freight Network Optimization: The importance of using current data to determine the loads carriers chose to haul
• The Increasing Costs of Insurance: The state of the insurance market for U.S. and Canadian trucking companies and opportunities for safe and compliant carriers

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