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BulkLoads as Your Insurance Agent? Trucking, Farm, Life, Agribusiness
Larry Hurt and Jeff Vale dive into the story of why BulkLoads started an insurance group, their focus on motor carriers' truck insurance, and the importance of being industry experts. They also highlight their passion…
Play episodeJun 5, 2025
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Jared Flinn — Founder, BulkLoads
Twenty years of bulk-freight operating experience. Jared sits down weekly with the carriers, brokers, and shippers who actually move the freight — not the pundits who write about it. New episode every Monday.
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PlayThe Surprising Data This Professor Has Found About Bulk Freight Trucking
Jul 26, 2024PlayCreating a Successful Lease Purchase Program for Your Drivers
Jul 19, 2024PlayTrading a Billion Gallons of Diesel For This Fuel Company
Jul 18, 2024PlayAn Inside Look Within Dump Trucking, Earning Potential & Industry Growth
Jul 18, 2024PlayWhat One of the Largest Lenders is Saying About the Trucking Market
Jun 28, 2024PlayDelivering Hope To Millions Through Trucking & Bulk Commodities
Jun 21, 2024Play70% of American Grain Goes Through This Company
Jun 14, 2024PlayThe Truth About (Some) Factoring Companies
May 31, 2024PlayMaximizing Retirement Savings for Owner Operators
May 27, 2024PlayHow Tri-State Built Their Bulk Trucking Empire Over 50 Years & 3 Generations
May 17, 2024PlayShould We Be Fearful When Mega Carriers Enter the Bulk Space?
May 10, 2024PlayGot A Permit For That??
May 3, 2024PlayHammer Down, the Truckers Coffee founded by a BulkLoads Member
Apr 27, 2024PlayAn Owner Operator From A Broker’s Prospective
Apr 19, 2024PlayOn Track to Get 50 Trucks by 2025
Apr 12, 2024PlayFracking, Trucking & the US Oil Fields: An Insider's Story
Apr 5, 2024PlayWhy the Trucking Industry Should be Paying Attention to this Lawsuit in Texas
Mar 29, 2024PlayLIVE FROM MATS Inside the Cab of a Jaw-Dropping, Best In Class Semi w/ MKC Hauling
Mar 23, 2024PlayIs AI Changing Trucking? US Cellular Integrates AI Into ELD & Dash Cams!
Mar 15, 2024PlayMinnesota Roots, Midwest Success: Garlan Dubbels' Journey from Farming to 40 Trucks
Mar 8, 2024PlayInside the Logging and Trucking World: Growth, Challenges, and Bourbon Barrels
Mar 1, 2024PlayFrom 2 Trucks to 60: This Bulk Trucking Company is Buying Out The Competition
Feb 23, 2024PlayA Conversation With Bill Northey Before His Passing: A Life Devoted to Iowa Agriculture
Feb 16, 2024PlaySapp Bros: Inside Look of a Truck Stop Built on Faith
Feb 9, 2024PlayWhat You Didn't Know About the Grain Industry: This is the Future of Agriculture
Feb 5, 2024PlayBulkLoads Member Grew Annual Revenue by 133%
Jan 26, 2024PlayA Complete One-Hour Guide to Quickly Turn Profit in Trucking
Jan 19, 2024PlayThis BulkLoads Member is Going to 10X by Adding These 2 Business Units
Jan 12, 2024PlayWhat is Social Inflation? It's Impacting Your Truck Insurance Cost
Jan 5, 2024PlayInside Look at the FMCSA
Dec 29, 2023PlayPriesthood to Business Owner
Dec 26, 2023PlayGenerational Bulk Trucking Company Experienced Massive Growth: Here's How w/ RC Trucking
Dec 15, 2023PlayThese Books Helped us Create a 9-Figure Umbrella of Companies
Dec 9, 2023PlayHow The Bones Co. Boosts Revenue By Diversifying Its Trucking Business
Dec 4, 2023PlayGrowing A Freight Network With Over 150,000 Subscribers
Nov 24, 2023PlayFrom Single Hopper Farm to Fleet of 130 Trucks
Nov 17, 2023PlayFrom ADM Merchandiser to Global Chocolate Company
Nov 10, 2023PlayKnow How to Better Negotiate Rates to Maximize Your Profit
Oct 13, 2023PlayIf This Was My Last Podcast...
Nov 3, 2023PlayThe Freight Wizard’s Predictions
Oct 27, 2023PlayDon't Bet The Farm
Oct 21, 2023PlayIncrease Trucking Revenue with These Steps
Oct 9, 2023PlayWhat Sets Cornhusker Hoppers Apart From Other Trailers
Sep 29, 2023PlayWe Spend More to Tune Up our Trucks Than Ourselves
Sep 22, 2023PlayWe Hated Factoring Companies So We Started Our Own
Sep 15, 2023PlayFired From BulkLoads Allowed For a Clear Vision
Sep 11, 2023PlayThe History and Future of BulkLoads
Sep 1, 2023PlayA Company That Started With a Prayer
Aug 25, 2023PlayWhat I Would Have Told Myself Before Creating BulkLoads
Aug 18, 2023PlayHow to Unload Your Trailer in Half the Time
Aug 11, 2023PlayShould Your Trucking Company Pay for Work-Comp Insurance?
Aug 7, 2023PlayThis BulkLoads Member Does Not Take Loads Off the Board
Jul 28, 2023PlayOne of the First Companies to Run Doubles out West
Jul 21, 2023PlayZero to Six Hoppers in a Year
Jul 17, 2023PlayMy Top 5 Podcasts for Success
Jul 7, 2023PlayOne Nation, Unified Together: 4th of July Special
Jul 3, 2023PlayHauling Dedicated Bulk Loads for 30 Years With No Contracts
Jun 23, 2023PlayFrom MLB Pitcher to Serving Truckers
Jun 16, 2023PlayEarning Trust, Trading, and Shipping Commodities
Jun 9, 2023PlayHow to Win at Bulk Trucking and Not Do What Everyone Else is Doing
Jun 2, 2023PlayRight to Repair Act and What It Means
May 26, 2023PlayHow this BulkLoads Member has Over 30,000 Followers on His YouTube Channel!
May 19, 2023PlayThe Market Will Turn Back. Will You Be Ready?
May 12, 2023PlayHow This 22-Year-Old Is Killing It in Bulk Trucking With 2 Show Quality Rigs
May 5, 2023PlayHealth Insurance Made Easy for Small Trucking Companies
Apr 28, 2023PlayThe Band of Brothers in Bulk Hauling
Apr 21, 2023Play"Can’t Make the Excuse That Rates Are Cheap"
Apr 14, 2023PlayWhy Today’s Market Can Actually Benefit Your Trucking Company
Apr 6, 2023PlayThe Steps to Add a Brokerage to Your Trucking Operation
Apr 1, 2023PlayWhat Truck Insurance Underwriters Look for When Deciding Your Premium
Mar 24, 2023PlayHow the Pet Population Is Causing the Need for Bulk Haulers
Dec 30, 2022PlayBulk Freight Rates Are Going Up on March 15th. Here’s Why.
Mar 10, 2023PlayThe Agriculture Finance Outlook for 2023
Mar 17, 2023PlayThe Bulk Freight Tool That Optimizes Your Business
Mar 6, 2023PlayDo You Have Pollution Coverage?
Feb 24, 2023PlayFilling Up Your Pipeline When Freight Rates Are Low
Feb 17, 2023PlayWhat Is Double Brokering?
Feb 10, 2023PlayThis Company Wants to Buy Your Company
Feb 3, 2023PlayWho’s to Blame for the Current Trucking Market?
Jan 27, 2023PlayIFTA Is Requiring a 3% Audit on All Truckers
Jan 20, 2023PlayDirect Shippers Aren’t Always the Best for Your Operation
Jan 13, 2023PlayThis Guy Met His Wife on BulkLoads!
Jan 6, 2023PlayYou Should Be Asking "Who, Not How"
Dec 22, 2022PlayDouble Your Business in 2023 With These Sales Tactics
Dec 16, 2022PlayHow to Effectively Take Winter Months off as an Owner-Operator
Dec 9, 2022PlayThe Simplest Way to Financially Protect Your Family as an Owner-Operator
Dec 2, 2022PlayHackers Are Shutting Down Your Truck Right Now
Nov 23, 2022PlayNever Leave the Auger Overweight or Unbalanced Again
Nov 18, 2022PlayWhy Truckers Should Be Making at Least $120K/Year
Nov 11, 2022PlayHow We Got Where We Are in Trucking Today
Nov 7, 2022PlayHow to Maximize Your Profits in Farming and Trucking at the Same Time
Oct 27, 2022PlayAn ELD AG Haulers Will Love
Oct 21, 2022PlayHow the Color of Your Truck Can Increase Your Business
Oct 14, 2022PlayAn Easy, Unbiased Way to Get Grain Market Intel
Oct 7, 2022PlayWays to Utilize Your Bank You May Not Know
Sep 30, 2022PlayHow I Scale Myself to Operate 3 Companies
Sep 23, 2022PlayThis Is Why You Are Not Getting Any Responses From Your Post
Sep 16, 2022PlayDon’t Put Your Freight Business at Cyber Risk by Not Taking This Step
Sep 9, 2022PlayWant to Master the Art of Grain Merchandising?
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