Building A Better Trucking Tech Stack: Where Do You Start?

Was your tech stack carefully built, or accumulated? A TMS selected years ago.Systems that don’t communicate the way they should.Spreadsheets filling gaps they were never designed to fill.Software still being paid for but barely used.And now, an explosion of AI tools promising another layer of efficiency.The question isn’t simply “What technology should we buy next?” It’s “What problem are we actually trying to solve?” In this episode of Driving Forward, Nate Johnson is joined by Mike Solarz, Michael Demers, and Robert Bain to unpack what they heard directly from trucking and logistics leaders at the GLCS Tech Summit. They dig into why AI adoption may be moving slower than the headlines suggest, the ongoing frustration around TMS integrations, cybersecurity and freight fraud, lessons learned from technology implementations, and why building a practical technology roadmap starts with understanding your processes before adding another tool. For transportation leaders deciding what belongs in their tech stack, what needs to change, and where to invest next, this episode offers insight to the technology conversations happening across trucking today.