It is shocking how little a lot of logistics people understand about AI and what’s available today. I’ve attended a few smaller regional freight conferences recently and have heard people borderline compare it to witchcraft and fraudulent. It’s changing the world faster than

Every time I bring up "ICP" and someone has no idea what it means, I tell them it's "Insane Clown Posse" with a straight face. It usually follows with pure confusion before clarifying that it means Ideal Customer Profile. Recently, they thought I said NSYNC Clown Posse. I

Me, after one Caleb Williams preseason touchdown drive

Do you turn your car off when getting gas? My mother-in-law just told me she doesn’t because it keeps the car cooler in the summer.

I don’t see a single data point that the article related to carriers engaging in cabotage. It’s all vague conjecture from the ATA. Cross-border carriers are based at the border. 80-90% of their revenue comes from big shippers moving a lot of cross-border freight. They get paid

Freight podcasting is serious business. If you don’t agree, you just haven’t seen the Chattanooga body cam footage yet.

Well, this one needed a while newsletter devoted to all the back and forth. Dive in at the link below 👇 congratsonalltheprogress.com/p/clearing-the…

Who's got an RFP with some Mexico lanes on it? I want to test something out. HMU in the DMs.

It's 7:30pm... where is this update we were all promised at 7pm?

There’s a repeat pattern emerging with some Canadian trucking companies. They’re telling drivers who should be employed that they should get their own legal entity and operate as a contractor. The drivers don’t own the trucks. They’re employees but don’t get paid or treated

AI is going to have a profound impact on the logistics industry. Over the next few years, I think we’ll see the brokerage model evolve and operating costs will decrease for those who fully lean into new products and platforms. It’s real.

When a VC says they want to pre-empt your round and then asks you to come into a partner meeting and talk to a bunch of customers, they’re not actually asking to pre-empt; they’re asking you to run a fundraising process with one potential bidder.

We've launched two new insane products that dramatically change how users get value from our product, and opened up a new market for our entire customer base. All in the last week. Our P&E team is elite.

While building Forager, I obsessed over marketplaces. I wanted Forager to be a marketplace but, in all reality, it was a freight brokerage with some tech. I even tried selling the brokerage and keeping the tech but couldn't get anyone to just buy the brokerage. It's fun to run

There should be a way to remove the “Also send to Channel” button on Slack.

hot take: venture firms should always pick up the legal fees on all fundraising deals you already get a passenger seat on the success of everyones businesses, the least you can do is pay the toll

a brief refresher on how to write easily-forwardable emails

For some reason, brokers still send blast emails to carriers asking them to move spot or consistent freight. More of those carriers are starting to forward those emails to Cargado and telling the brokers to just post it there. They don’t want the emails. They want it in