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Trucking Forward
en-usFebruary 29, 2024
Trucking Forward
Autonomous trucking is on the horizon, and the freight industry and supply chain professionals have many questions about how and when it will impact their businesses. Trucking Forward With Torc’s Adam Shoemaker & Tim Zuercher is here to help drivers, freight logistics pros, and anyone curious about self-driving trucks navigate the future of freight and not get left behind.
Episodes every other Tuesday!
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Episodes (14)
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
en-usOctober 12, 2023
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
en-usSeptember 13, 2023
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.'
Torc SVP of Engineering Mike Avitabile Is Unleashed on Tim and Adam on 'Trucking Forward'
Tim and Adam welcome... their boss, Mike Avitabile, senior VP of Engineering at Torc. One of the long-time Torcr's, joining the company in 2007, Mike and the other two "former" engineers discuss hardware, software, and Torc's path to autonomy.
Listen in as Mike gets a delivery of some refreshing beverages while talking with Tim and Adam about how the three of them impact autonomous technology at Torc and in the industry itself.
Read more about Mike here.
Dushyant Wadivkar, Torc VP Safety Design and Safety Engineering Speaks Safety on 'Trucking Forward'
Torc is creating an autonomous product that doesn't just meet safety standards, it exceeds them and Dushyant Wadivkar, Torc VP of Safety Design and Safety Engineering, is one of the people making sure the engineering matches that safety design.
At Torc, Dushyant influences and refines global vehicle-safety regulations that drives the development of autonomous driving system (ADS)-equipped vehicle certification standards. He also works to enable optimal system architecture for a commercially viable product and corresponding release strategies for driverless deployment.
Listen in as Dushyant talks with Tim and Adam about how the three of them impact autonomous technology at Torc and in the industry itself.
Read more about Dushyant here.
Introducing Tim Zuercher and Adam Shoemaker, Trucking Forward's New Co-Hosts
Get to know Tim Zuercher and Adam Shoemaker, Trucking Forward's new co-hosts, in this intro episode of our podcast reboot!
Tim Zuercher is the VP of Engineering for Autonomy, where he leads the development of perception, localization, mapping, behaviors, planning, and control algorithms for Torc's Virtual Driver. Joining Torc just before the Daimler partnership, Tim has served in multiple roles from Software Engineer to Technical Product Director of the Virtual Driver. Prior to Torc, he was at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University where he helped grow the robotics research program while developing autonomy algorithms and platforms for land, sea, and air. Tim holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering.
Adam Shoemaker currently holds the role of Chief Architect at Torc, where he works across the organization, weaving the threads of Torc's solution into a working tapestry, while mentoring teams and individual contributors as a technology evangelist. Joining Torc in 2016, Adam has served in multiple roles from Software Engineer to Technical Director. Prior to Torc, he was at Virginia Tech where he focused on control theory, state estimation, planning, localization, mapping, and perception, and participating in various research grants focused primarily on unmanned ground robotics applications. He also has the distinction of hiring Tim, from a phone interview alone. Adam holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering.
'Trucking Forward with Torc' Trailer 2023
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.