Forum Mobility’s Matt LeDucq: “Electrifying trucking”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Matt LeDucq, founder of Forum Mobility, to talk about drayage (4:25), its health impacts (6:20), starting out in renewable energy twenty years ago (9:10), how drayage is like solar decades ago (12:10), the coming wave of electric lorries (13:30), building giant depots (16:45), the cost question (18:20), and electric grid challenge (20:20), being the tip of the spear (23:25), deciding to start the company (28:50), putting steel in the ground (34:10), learning to be a CEO (39:45), and what the rest of the world is doing (42:10).

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0:32.3	Yo, technology. What is it all about?
0:36.8	Truckers do not get the good end of the stick. They do not get listened to. What is it all about? Truckers do not get the good end of the stick.
0:39.4	They do not get listened to.
0:41.2	It is really hard for their voices to be heard.
0:44.0	And in this case, you know, there's a lot of like, yeah, you guys go convert.
0:47.6	The market will figure it out.
0:48.9	And these truckers are saying, well, where's all the infrastructure?
0:51.4	And there isn't.
0:52.4	And so I do have a lot of sympathy for the trucker.
1:08.5	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech this week.
1:16.2	I'm going to start you off with a pop quiz.
1:18.4	Do you know what drayage is?
1:22.2	The word is drayage.
1:25.6	I'm guessing most of you, apart from those card-carrying transport nerds, have no
1:32.9	idea. So, drayage, and as you'll soon see, I even got the pronunciation wrong when I started
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