#trucknhustle #trucknhustlepodcast Join us this fall at Freight Fest, Trucking Conference Of The Year brought to you by Truck N’ Hustle November 4th-6th Houston TX! Special Offer https://freightfest.com Special thanks to our sponsors for collaborating with us for the FreightFest 2022. You check our Sponsors on the link below, https://linktr.ee/trucknhustlepodcast DAT TRUCKERSEDGE provides carriers access to the trusted DAT® Network, North America’s largest marketplace for freight loads and trucks with over 900,000 loads posted daily.. Get your first month Free! Sign up here:  http://www.truckersedge.com/0001922618 DAT POWER is the industry's most advanced load board for carriers and freight brokers, with powerful tools for advanced filtering, group collaboration, automatic refreshes, multiple searching and posting simultaneously, partner research tools, and market-leading rate tools. Get your first month Free! Sign up here:  http://www.dat.com/power/0001922618 DAT Express is built for small brokerages who want to find the capacity to move freight. http://www.dat.com/express/0001922618 Special thank to our guest Dean Croke - DAT principal analyst Prior to joining DAT Solutions, Dean was Chief Insight Officer at FreightWaves where he led the freight market intelligence team of Market Experts. Prior to that he was Vice President of Data Products at Spireon where he helped develop new telematics data products in the trucking, passenger automotive and insurance markets. Dean also ran Lancer’s long-haul truck insurance business after spending many years as Vice President of Omnitracs Analytics (formerly Qualcomm) where he developed Data Science technologies including machine learning, complex business rules engines and data analytics for transportation companies.  Croke was one of the original founders of Atlanta-based FleetRisk Advisors (purchased by Qualcomm and now called now Omnitracs Analytics) and has 35 years of experience in data analytics, transportation, supply chain management, mining and insurance risk management. Originally from a family-owned and operated trucking business in Australia, Dean is still actively involved in the trucking business and having completed nearly 2 million miles in Australia as a long-distance truck driver, Croke also owns a 379 Peterbilt show truck known as “The Grumpy Pete” and still holds a U.S. Commercial Driver License(CDL) making him uniquely experienced in the field of data science, supply chain management, risk management and human performance.