Hyliion’s Healy, right to repair and the brutal truth of selling on Amazon

On today’s episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner and The Dude are talking to Hyliion CEO Thomas Healy about the 3D-printed mixed-fuel generator technology the company bought from GE. What’s it do, how does it work and will it put the company in the fast lane for zero-emissions OTR trucking?

If you’ve ever googled John Deere and right to repair, you know what this next segment is about. Diesel Laptops CEO Tyler Robertson talks about its battles against big OEMs for democratizing diagnostics. 

Selling on Amazon isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. Viahart President Molson Hart talks about his company’s experiences selling on Amazon and contending with supply chain issues. 

What are the hidden gems for running an efficient supply chain? Dave Pollard, assistant VP, and Courtney Davis, director at CoreTrust, are here to enlighten us.

Plus, Tennessee gets the largest lithium plant in the country; a convoy of water tankers heads to Mississippi; an orthodox way of scoring free food from a truck stop; and much more.

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Dooner is an award-winning podcaster who hosts and produces FreightWaves' WHAT THE TRUCK?!? In under a year he helped build FreightCasts, the world’s largest logistics and supply chain podcast network in media. WTT is ranked in Apple Podcasts top-20 Business News podcasts. He also writes a newsletter of the same title with over 15k subscribers in the supply chain and trucking niche. Dooner has been in freight since 2005 and has held directors positions in operations, sales, consulting, and marketing. He has worked with FedEx, Reebok, Adidas, L.L. Bean, Hasbro, Louis Vuitton, and many more high level clients across the full spectrum of the supply chain. He was a featured speaker at TEDx Chattanooga.