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In today’s Thursday feature, we’re keeping it light with a look at the top five FreightCaviar memes on Instagram from this year, plus the meme of the day all the way at the bottom.
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Without further ado, here they are:
I created this meme back in 2021 but never shared it, unsure if people would find it funny. Turns out, they really did. You never know how your content will perform until you put it out there.
We give DAT a hard time whenever their site goes down, but at the end of the day, they’re the most popular load board in our industry. Many brokerages and trucking companies wouldn’t be able to operate without them, so they must be doing something right.
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Credits to Reed Loustalot, CMO of Truck Parking Club, for creating this one.
Our most-liked meme of 2024 is the one we shared on Election Day, this past Tuesday.
By the way, we ran polls ahead of the election on our X page, Instagram stories, and in our newsletter. Out of nearly 1,500 responses, around 80% of our industry voted for Donald Trump.
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