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4 Things I Learned This Week

By Alex Stark Change Comes in Sideways: A Three-Year Inflation High, Amazon’s LTL Move, Driverless Trucks Going Mainstream, and the Real Blockbuster Story The World Cup kicked off this week, and it still feels a little surreal that the biggest sporting event on the…
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4 Things I Learned This Week

By Alex Stark What Summer Challenges in Logistics, Rare Earth Materials, Berkshire’s Housing Bet, and a New Wharton Study on AI Are Trying to Tell Us It’s finally feeling like summer in my corner of the supply chain world. Sunny skies, consistently warm temperatures,…
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4 Things I Learned This Week

By Alex Stark When the Numbers Aren’t Telling the Whole Story: Consumer Sentiment, AI Jobs, 10-Minute Groceries, and the Pope Hope everyone had a good Memorial Day weekend. The unofficial start of summer felt earned this year. I participated in an annual 5k (shout-out…
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4 Things I Learned This Week

By Alex Stark The Ground Floor Is Talking: Are We Listening to the Freight Market, the Carvana Disruption, the AI Backlash, and the Real Driver Shortage Story? Hope you all enjoy the unofficial start of summer this weekend. I don’t know about you, but…
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4 Things I Learned This Week

By Alex Stark What We Built vs. What We Need Now: Why the Protein Boom, Negative Real Wages, the Saudi Truck Convoy, and a 1,500% Cargo Theft Surge Are All the Same Story It’s been a relentless week for industry news, or all news…
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4 Things I Learned This Week

By Alex Stark The Wrong Instinct: Why the Freight Reset, AI Bottlenecks, Transparency Theater, and a 183-Year-Old Factory Closing Are All the Same Story There’s a particular rhythm to mid-quarter weeks. The big quarterly noise has settled, the next big push hasn’t fully started,…
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4 Things I Learned This Week

By Alex Stark The Squeeze—What Tariff Price Hikes, a 2% Economy, the Carrier Capacity Crunch, and a Wharton AI Study All Have in Common The calendar says May. The weather outside my window in northeast Pennsylvania says early April. The trees are just starting…
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