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Logistics & Supply Chain: the podcasts, blogs and shows worth following
Freight rates, capacity, forwarder margin, and the regulators who move all three. These are the public sources Briefwire reads to cover it — the podcasts, blogs and shows — each fetched and checked before it is listed, and each with a note on what it is good for.
Podcasts, blogs and shows.
rates · capacity · regulation · fraud
19 September 2026. Every source is English-language and public: nothing behind a paywall or a login is read.
Podcasts
Where operators and investors reason out loud at length. The receipt for a line from one of these is a timestamp.
- Resilient Supply Chain (Tom Raftery)
Analyst-led interviews on supply-chain risk, energy and industrial technology.
- The Freight Pod
Andrew Silver, who built and sold MoLo, getting freight CEOs to explain how the deals and blowups actually went.
- Everything is Logistics
Blythe Milligan on freight tech, EDI economics and marketing, with practitioners who name their own numbers.
- Freight 360
Working brokers dissecting broker-liability rulings and market turns weekly; the desk-level view of the cycle.
- The SupplyChainBrain Podcast
Practitioner interviews on trade, sourcing and warehouse operations.
- Logistics Matters with DC Velocity
Named CEOs on freight, packaging and materials handling each week, with the week's cost pressures itemised.
- The New Warehouse
Kevin Lawton twice weekly with warehouse-automation and 3PL operators on WMS choices and build-vs-buy.
- Talking Supply Chain (SCMR)
Gartner, Moody's and APICS analysts questioned directly on risk, procurement and where AI is exposing process debt.
- Supply Chain Revolution
Sheri Hinish on circular supply chains and reverse logistics with the coalitions actually building them.
- Shipping Podcast
Lena Gothberg interviewing maritime executives and crisis leads; the shipowner-side view rarely quoted in US trades.
- Let's Talk Supply Chain
Sarah Barnes-Humphrey with shipper-side supply-chain leads on vendor selection and what the tooling missed.
Blogs and newsletters
Company engineering blogs, analyst newsletters and practitioner posts. The receipt is the paragraph.
The fastest US freight-market news: rates, capacity and carrier earnings.
Ocean and air forwarding exclusives; margin intelligence on DSV, Maersk and peers.
Trucking fleet economics, regulation and the Top 100 carrier rankings.
Broker sentiment surveys and freight-fraud reporting that appears nowhere else.
Weekly container and air rate index updates with lane-level commentary.
Shipper complaints against ocean carriers, agreement filings and detention rulings, docketed at the source.
Jones Act coastwise waivers and shipyard-financing rules — the paperwork that decides US-flag ocean capacity.
Hazmat packaging rules and special permits; the gate every lithium-battery and chemical shipment passes through.
ACE manifest mandates and customs-enforcement areas — cross-border lead times reprice off these notices.
Section 301 comment requests and hearing notices — the document that precedes every tariff headline.
Air-cargo screening and TWIC credential changes that gate access to freight facilities and ramps.
Dispute-panel adoptions and trade-measure notifications; the ceiling any tariff argument has to argue against.
UK freight, rail and zero-emission-vehicle policy announced by the ministry itself, not summarised second-hand.
Fleet-telematics vendor announcing AI dispatch and safety features; a read on what fleets automate next.
Warehouse AMR leader on polyfunctional robots and pick-rate economics drawn from its own deployments.
Daimler's autonomous-truck arm publishing its own driver-out milestones and first-responder safety protocols.
Global-trade and routing vendor whose product notices double as customs-compliance change announcements.
Digital brokerage documenting its agentic scheduling, claims and load-audit rollouts as it ships them.
Network-scale cross-border and rate commentary plus named-executive Q&As on where freight AI pays.
Supply-chain planning vendor arguing against its own category's AI hype using customer deployment data.
Weekly van, reefer and flatbed rate reports from the largest US load board — citable lane-level numbers.
Load-board operator on carrier cost-per-mile, factoring terms and the freight-fraud patterns it sees first.
Ocean and air rate-benchmarking desk publishing what shippers actually pay versus the published index.
Fulfilment-robotics vendor on the execution gap between inventory systems and what happens on the floor.
Maritime casualty, naval and chokepoint desk; container trades pick these stories up hours later.
Asia-based shipping desk on newbuild orders, S&P deals and charter moves — owner-side, not shipper-side.
OOIDA's newsroom on broker-transparency rulemaking and the owner-operator cost side of every trucking rule.
Carrier contract rebids, M&A and capacity exits reported with named shippers and dollar figures attached.
YouTube shows
Interviews, conference talks and explainers, read from their published captions.
Daily freight-market show with carrier and broker executives plus rate commentary.
Long-form shipper and 3PL executive interviews plus live event coverage.
Adrian Gonzalez interviewing logistics-technology founders and analysts unscripted.
Weekly tariff and ocean-capacity briefings delivered by the forwarder's own trade advisors on camera.
The largest ocean carrier explaining its own network changes, customs products and Asia capacity moves.
Intermodal and dedicated-fleet strategy from the carrier whose capacity decisions set US intermodal pricing.
LTL operator on terminal expansion, network density and driver safety after the Yellow capacity exit.
Dedicated-transport and 3PL case studies with named shippers; the outsourcing-economics argument first-hand.
Monthly freight-market update from the largest US broker, carrying explicit truckload and LTL rate calls.
WMS and TMS market leader on warehouse agents and planning; where enterprise supply-chain software is going.
Dean Croke's freight-market update series and the Logistics Manager's Index reads, argued on camera.
Gene Seroka's monthly cargo briefing — the first hard container-volume numbers out of the largest US gateway.
The trucking lobby recording its own member-executive panels and stating its policy positions on record.
MIT CTL researchers and Supply Chain Frontiers episodes — the academic check on vendor performance claims.
Unedited MODEX floor and port-executive interviews, including the Port of LA's director on tariffs and volumes.
Fleet-cost analysis on camera: cost-per-mile trends, maintenance inflation and autonomous deployment counts.
What Briefwire does with them
- 01Reads
Every source above is fetched through the day. Spoken sources are read from their published transcript or captions; written ones from the post itself.
- 02Extracts and matches
Discrete claims are pulled out, typed — a product move, a data point, a prediction, an opinion — and matched against the same claim from other publishers.
- 03Ranks and sends
The 12 lines that rank highest go out as a brief, daily or weekly at the hour you choose. A claim several independent sources made ranks higher; that counts agreement, not accuracy, and every line links to where it was said.
More on the method: how a line earns its place, what industry intelligence is, and how this differs from page monitors, podcast summarisers, industry newsletters, and the other tools you may already run.
Run one of the sources above, or think one is missing? How sources are attributed, and how to reach us.
The other industries Briefwire reads
- AI ToolingModel labs, inference platforms, and the release feeds that date every capability claim.
- Dev Tools & InfraCloud platforms, developer infrastructure, and the changelogs that date every shipped feature.
- B2B SaaS & GTMSaaS operating benchmarks, pricing and go-to-market, from operators and the tools they run on.
- E-commerce / DTCRetail and DTC economics: platform changes, channel costs, and merchant-side reality.
- Fintech & PaymentsPayments infrastructure, banking strategy, and the regulators who reset both.
- Crypto & StablecoinsDigital-asset markets, stablecoin issuance, and the protocol releases underneath them.
- CybersecurityThreat intelligence, breach reporting, and the advisories that drive enterprise security spend.
- Healthcare / BiotechDrug development, health-system economics, and the regulator that gates both.
- Climate & EnergyEnergy-transition project economics, utility strategy, and climate-tech capital flows.
- Semiconductors / Hardware / RoboticsSilicon supply chains, independent hardware measurement, and the robotics companies buying it all.
- Legal & RegTechLegal technology adoption, law-firm buying, and the enforcement actions that create compliance demand.
- HR & Future of WorkHiring tools, workforce data, and the employment rules that reset employer obligations.
- Insurance & InsurtechCarrier strategy, reinsurance pricing, and the distribution and core-system modernisation underneath.
- Real Estate & PropTechCommercial real-estate capital markets, mortgage technology, and construction-site digitisation.
- Manufacturing & IndustrialAutomation purchasing, plant capex, and the robotics platforms industrial buyers standardise on.
- Media & Creator EconomyPublisher revenue models, programmatic advertising, and the platform rule changes both depend on.
- GamingStudio economics, platform policy, engine migration, and the discovery data that drives publishing.
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