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About this Episode
Welcome to 'Trucking Forward' where two former engineers sit in a very small room and awkwardly talk everything autonomous technology.
Welcome to Trucking Forward, Torc's podcast all about self-driving vehicles and tech. Co-hosts Tim Zuercher and Adam Shoemaker will be speaking from their own experiences, and welcoming experts from both the engineering side and trucking side. Over the course of the series, you'll get a sense of how Torc is working to bridge these two industries into a new modal of transportation and meet the subject matter experts responsible.
Recent Episodes from Trucking Forward
Turning the Interviewing Tables on Autonomous Expert Richard Bishop
Richard Bishop is a writer, Forbes contributor, and consultant, advising companies on strategy and outlook for autonomous vehicles. Before he started his own business, he managed USDOT’s program in vehicle-highway automation R&D, establishing the National Automated Highway System Consortium as well as the International Task Force on Vehicle-Highway Automation (ITFVHA). He focuses a lot of his attention on autonomous trucking, and serves as the 2nd Vice-Chair of the Automated and Electric Study Group of the American Trucking Association Technology and Maintenance Council.
He's also used to doing the interviewing, so getting into the podcast room with Adam and Tim was a bit of switch up. Listen in!
Ingrid Brown Rolls Into Trucking Forward - Part II
Do YOU have a truck stop named after you? We wish we did. But that's just one of the reasons we have invited Ingrid Brown to join Tim and Adam on Trucking Forward. One of the Women In Trucking's Top 20 Women to Watch 2022 and the FMCSA CMV Voice of Safety, Ingrid has clocked millions of miles on the road. As she states on her LinkedIn, "Ingrid's four decade career as a Professional Truck Driver of diversity as an Independent Owner and as a Company driver, CEO, Safety and Operations Manager brings her experience of diversity of freight to the trucking industry in all areas."
Listen in on her take on autonomous trucking and the future of trucking with autonomy as another mode of transportation in this second episode with Ingrid.
Trucking Forward
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Ingrid Brown Rolls Into Trucking Forward - Part I
Do YOU have a truck stop named after you? We wish we did. But that's just one of the reasons we have invited Ingrid Brown to join Tim and Adam on Trucking Forward. One of the Women In Trucking's Top 20 Women to Watch 2022 and the FMCSA CMV Voice of Safety, Ingrid has clocked millions of miles on the road. As she states on her LinkedIn, "Ingrid's four decade career as a Professional Truck Driver of diversity as an Independent Owner and as a Company driver, CEO, Safety and Operations Manager brings her experience of diversity of freight to the trucking industry in all areas."
Listen in on her take on autonomous trucking and the future of trucking with autonomy as another mode of transportation in this first episode with Ingrid.
Seeing Into the Future With Grayson Brulte - Part II
If there's one person out there who is looking at all parts of the autonomous landscape, all at once, it's Grayson Brulte. Founder & CEO of The Road to Autonomy® index, which tracks 40 of the most influential companies in autonomous development space, Grayson is an in-demand industry event speaker and a media go-to source. He has a distinctive viewpoint of what autonomy is, and importantly, what it can and will do for the economy.
In the second episode of this two-part interview, Tim and Adam get Grayson's perspective on the economics of autonomous trucking, and what companies are doing right, right now, and what they've done wrong.
Trucking Forward
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Seeing Into the Future With Grayson Brulte - Part I
If there's one person out there who is looking at all parts of the autonomous landscape, all at once, it's Grayson Brulte. Founder & CEO of The Road to Autonomy® index, which tracks 40 of the most influential companies in autonomous development space, Grayson is an in-demand industry event speaker and a media go-to source. He has a distinctive viewpoint of what autonomy is, and importantly, what it can and will do for the economy.
In the first of this two-part interview, Tim and Adam get Grayson's perspective on the economics of autonomous trucking, and what companies are doing right, right now, and what they've done wrong.
Q&A Time: Tim and Adam Answer Burning Internet Questions
Tim and Adam have a little bit of fun on episode seven and answer the burning questions their fans have submitted online. Take notes, listeners! This episode will fuel the next trivia night at your local watering hole! Is Adam afraid to fly or does he just hate it? Who is their dream guest for the podcast? Who has a CDL? What is their favorite game? And most importantly, what are their spirit animals?
Scaling in 2027, Autonomy Levels, and Why Tim Loves Otters
As an independent subsidiary of Daimler Truck, we work closely with them as we're developing a Level 4 autonomous truck in their Freightliner Cascadia. So when they have a big event talking about when we'll have a commercially viable product, it's important to not only take note, but why. Join Tim and Adam as they discuss why it's significant, but not earth-shaking, what the different levels of autonomy are, and also find out why Tim loves otters.
Tim and Adam Fanboy Over Dr. Charles Reinholtz, the Gandalf of Robotics
Tim and Adam welcome Dr. Charles Reinholtz to this episode of 'Trucking Forward.' Dr. Reinholtz recently retired as Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He was at Virginia Tech previous to that position.
Since 1983, Dr. Reinholtz has taught thousands of students about autonomy and robotics. Importantly, though, he channeled his vast knowledge of engineering into student development and hands-on learning, including competition teams and projects. It can be said that he and his teachings were the spark for not only Torc's founders, but for autonomous vehicles as a whole.
Listen in as Tim reminisces with one of this professors, and both he and Adam fanboy out over a genuinely devoted teacher.
Self-Proclaimed Zealot Walter Grigg, Torc's Industry Partnership Guru, on 'Trucking Forward'
Walter Grigg, Torc's "in between" strategy expert, joins Tim and Adam to discuss the exciting, ever-moving, and complex space between autonomous software and the trucking industry. He fills us in on what we need to be thinking about as we get closer to an on-the-road autononmous product and how Torc is working alongside the best in the field.
Check out one of Torc's most interesting speakers on this episode of 'Trucking Forward.'