AI for duty drawback: Get back 99% of what you pay in tariffs; Walmart’s drones

On Episode 830 of WHAT THE TRUCK?!?, Dooner is back from Chicago, where he got to see that state of freight on the world’s most powerful visibility platform: project44. With ocean booking cancellations up bigly on the East and West coasts, when will trucking feel the pain? Did you know that if you export or destroy goods that you’ve paid tariffs on, you can claim 99% of your duties back? We’ll meet Caspian CEO and co-founder Justin Sherlock to talk about his AI-driven duty drawback program. Drones are taking off as Walmart expands aerial package drop-offs to 1.8 million households in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. James McDanolds at Sonoran Desert Institute has dedicated his career to working on drones. We’ll find out if 2025 is the year drone delivery goes mainstream.  Olivia deMars is a high school student in Massachusetts. Today we’ll find out how Gen Alpha views the tariff situation.  5:20 Dooner goes to Chicago and project44 9:44 Tariff turmoil 12:06 Switch2 preorder hell? 17:15 Over the Top 2 19:12 Walmart Drones Do Dallas | James McDanolds 30:25 Boo this man 31:02 AI for Duty Drawback | Justin Sherlock Catch new shows live at noon EDT Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays on FreightWaves LinkedIn, Facebook, X or YouTube, or on demand by looking up WHAT THE TRUCK?!? on your favorite podcast player and at 5 p.m. Eastern on SiriusXM’s Road Dog Trucking Channel 146. Watch on YouTube Check out the WTT merch store Visit our sponsor Subscribe to the WTT newsletter Apple Podcasts Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices