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This Week In Logistics
by CartonCloud
This Week in Logistics is your 10–20 minute weekly intelligence briefing for 3PLs, warehouse and transport leaders. Hosted by CartonCloud CEO Shaun Hagen, each episode cuts through the headlines to explain what happened, why it matters, and what operators should do next. No noise. No fluff. Just practical insights to help you run a smarter, more resilient operation.
Episodes
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When the System Says Forty and the Shelf Says Twelve — Closing the Inventory-to-Warehouse Gap, With Special Guest Gaubrielle Pritchard, Director of Product and Customer Marketing, Cin7
Gaubrielle Pritchard, Director of Product and Customer Marketing at Cin7, joins CartonCloud CEO Shaun Hagen to unpack why inventory and warehouse systems drift apart, and what it actually costs operators once they stop agreeing. Welcome back to This Week in Logistics! In this special guest…
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TWIL: A Cost Rule Peak — Canada's Tariffs Go Live, FedEx Guarantees Your Duties, and Peak Season Surcharges Land
Canada's tariffs are live, FedEx is now guaranteeing duties and taxes at checkout, and peak season surcharges are landing three different ways — with one of them invisible on the invoice. CartonCloud CEO Shaun Hagen is joined by CartonCloud Account Executive Javier Hernandez to unpack what it…
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TWIL: Multiple Warehouses, Multiple States, One Standard — How HD Warehousing Does It, With Special Guest Chad Hildebrandt, Owner & COO
HD Warehousing runs hazmat storage, food grade, e-commerce fulfillment, and large-scale pallet operations across multiple states — and Chad Hildebrandt, Owner & COO, joins Shaun Hagen to explain what actually holds it all to one standard. Welcome back to This Week in Logistics! In this special...
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TWIL: Season 2 Returns — US-Canada Tariffs, Oil Volatility, and Panama Canal Cuts All at Once
Season two opens with three cost drivers hitting at once — oil volatility, a US-Canada tariff war, and Panama Canal transit cuts — and Shaun Hagen is joined by new co-host CartonCloud Account Executive, Javier Hernandez. Welcome back to This Week in Logistics! In this special news episode,...
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TWIL: Employing People with Disabilities in Logistics: Hone's Approach to Running a High-Performance 3PL with Special Guest Sharon Prasad, Operations Manager
Purpose. People. Proof. A social enterprise running 200 supported employees across multiple sites. A candle brand built from scratch by the people making it. And a 3PL winning large contracts — not because of charity, but because of results. This is the season one finale of This Week in…
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TWIL: The Breakthrough Arrived — But the Network's Flexibility Hasn't Come Back With It
US and Iran reach a framework deal. Brent drops 4%. The Strait of Hormuz is set to reopen Friday. Here's why you should not relax yet. This Week in Logistics, the breakthrough most operators have been waiting for since February finally arrived — a 14-point MOU, a signing ceremony scheduled in...
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TWIL: The Structural Pieces Are Clicking Into Place: FedEx Freight, Humanoid Robots, + What Oil Settling Actually Means
FedEx Freight goes independent. A humanoid robot sorts a quarter of a million packages without a failure. And oil finally gives us a credible path to relief. Let's dive in. This Week in Logistics, we're covering two weeks of structural shifts that have been building in the background for months —...
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TWIL: How to Deliver an Amazon-Like Experience — with Rob Hango-Zada from Shippit
The fulfillment bottleneck. The three-day gap hiding inside your own operation. And the delivery benchmark your customers are already measuring you against. Let's dive in. In This Week in Logistics, CartonCloud CEO Shaun Hagen sits down with Rob Hango-Zada, Co-Founder and Joint-CEO of Shippit —…
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TWIL: Hope Is Not a Plan — Iran Deal Signals, RTCCO Goes Live, FedEx Freight Goes Independent
The first real Iran deal signal since February, the RTCCO review hearing, and FedEx Freight going independent next week. Let's dive in. This Week in Logistics, we're tracking the first genuine signal of hope since the Hormuz crisis began in February — and why hope is not a plan. President Trump...
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TWIL: Aramco Says Oil Won't Normalize Until 2027 — And Two Other Shifts That Moved the Ground This Week
The 2027 oil normalization timeline, Australia's $45B Inland Rail decision, and a 1-in-3 truck out-of-service rate. Let's dive in. Last week on the podcast, we tracked volatility as the operating environment. #Thisweekinlogistics, the dramatic swings have settled — but when the dust settles, you...
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TWIL: Volatility Is the Operating Environment
$18 Brent Swings, Decade-Low Capacity, and Amazon's 96.4% Benchmark. Let’s dive in. This Week in Logistics, we're tracking what happens when volatility stops being a disruption and becomes the operating environment. Brent crude swung $18 in a single week — $115 down to $97 on ceasefire hopes…
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TWIL: The Hormuz Fuel Crisis, Freight Upcycle + Amazon Supply Chain Update
#ThisWeekinLogistics, we're covering two weeks of news in one episode — because the volume of developments between late April and early May has been extraordinary. The Strait of Hormuz escalated from blockade to live fire. Amazon opened its entire logistics network to any business globally. And…
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TWIL: What’s Actually Happening in Logistics Right Now (with special guest Scott Murray)
Wait... what do Zoolander and self-driving delivery trucks have in common? Find out in today's Ep as we take a look at the latest logistics news — from the view of operators on the ground! In this week’s This Week in Logistics, we’re joined by special guest Scott Murray, VP of Operations at...
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TWIL: Hidden Costs, Pricing Pressure + the New Service Baseline
In this week’s episode of This Week in Logistics, CartonCloud CEO Shaun Hagen breaks down how volatility is no longer hitting headline rates — it’s creeping into the hidden cost stack, operational admin, and service expectations. Following ongoing global fuel shocks, the market may look stable on...
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TWIL: Strait of Hormuz Blockade, Fuel Shortages + Planning for Supply Risk
In this week’s episode of This Week in Logistics, CartonCloud CEO Shaun Hagen breaks down the moment logistics shifts from a cost problem to a continuity problem. Following the US–NATO blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, fuel markets have moved beyond volatility into potential supply disruption —...
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TWIL: Flat Rates, Rising Costs + The Quiet Squeeze on Logistics Operators
The freight market looks stable on the surface — but underneath, operators are feeling the squeeze. This Week in Logistics, we’re unpacking the growing gap between headline indicators and day-to-day reality. Ocean rates are flat, capacity is available, but behind the scenes, fuel spikes,...
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TWIL: Surcharge Reality, Trade Complexity, the Race for Automation Execution + a warehouse with it’s own weather system!
The pressure on logistics operators has shifted from forecast to reality. This Week in Logistics we’re watching rising surcharges across ocean, air and parcel actively compress margins, while North American trade becomes more selective ahead of the USMCA review. But the bigger shift is happening...
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TWIL: Policy Pressure, the Illusion of Capacity + the Shift to Real Resilience
Episode 4 of This Week in Logistics explores the hidden forces reshaping global supply chains, from rising ocean rates and fuel-driven margin pressure to tightening cross-border capacity and growing policy risk. Shaun Hagen breaks down how Section 301 investigations, Mexico’s driver shortage, and...
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TWIL — Fuel Price Whiplash, US–Mexico Trade Talks + Why “Boring Automation” is Winning
Why you should automate your operation's "dumbest, harshest problem" with the highest friction, why you shouldn't tune out regarding policy talks for USA x Mexico trade, and other playbook actions for your week. In this week’s episode of This Week in Logistics, CartonCloud CEO Shaun Hagen breaks...
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TWIL — Middle East Disruption, Rail’s Intermodal Surge + implications for last-mile SLAs
The global supply chain is facing another stress test — and this week, resilience isn’t optional. In this episode of This Week in Logistics, Shaun Hagen breaks down the widening Middle East conflict and its impact on the Strait of Hormuz, with shipping lanes spiking up to 50% and airspace…
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TWIL — Manifest recap, AI & Trump Tariffs
In this debut episode of This Week in Logistics, Shaun unpacks three major signals shaping the industry right now. Join us to dive into on the ground innovation at Manifest in Las Vegas, the recent AI-driven shock to logistics stocks, and the US Supreme Court ruling on tariffs — as Shaun breaks...
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This Week in Logistics is your 10–20 minute weekly intelligence briefing for 3PLs, warehouse and transport leaders. Hosted by CartonCloud CEO Shaun Hagen, each episode cuts through the headlines to explain what happened, why it matters, and what operators should do next. No noise. No fluff. Just practical insights to help you run a smarter, more resilient operation.
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This Week in Logistics is your 10–20 minute weekly intelligence briefing for 3PLs, warehouse and transport leaders. Hosted by CartonCloud CEO Shaun Hagen, each episode cuts through the headlines to explain what happened, why it matters, and what operators should do next. No noise. No fluff. Just...
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