Most US logistics pros in the US talk about Mexico from a very surface-level approach. But most have never been on the ground to take in and appreciate the nuance that exists with our number one trading partner.

I just got back from 8 days in Mexico City: four doing some hosting on the main stage at The Logistics World Summit and Expo, four wandering the Roma Norte neighborhood with my husband Badr. What I saw on the conference floor and in the streets gave me a different read on this industry's relationship with Mexico than any analyst report has and this episode talks about it all.

Inside:

• The 26,583-person conference and 650+ booths most US freight pros have never heard of
• Why the driver shortage myth is spreading south of the border, and the pay arbitrage making it worse
• Cargo crime realities: a transport vehicle is stolen every 38 minutes, 86% involving violence
• The USMCA July 1, 2026 deadline and why the rules of origin fight matters
• How the National Museum of Anthropology was built in 19 months with a 168-ton monolith moved 29 miles
• Supply chain anthropology, cacao as currency, and what ancient Mesoamerica still teaches modern freight

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Resources:

• Everything is Logistics: https://everythingislogistics.com
• CargoRex: https://cargorex.io
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/blythebrum

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A 3PL moving 5,000 containers a year can bleed about $120,000 in avoidable detention and demurrage. Tyler Hughes says the fix is not another pretty dashboard. It is cleaner data, better reconciliation, and fewer blind spots when the container hits drayage.

In this episode

• Why ocean visibility still breaks even when everyone says they have data
• How Vizion cleans carrier, vessel, terminal, rail, and truck events into something usable
• Why standards matter less than the ugly backend work of mapping bad source data
• The real cost of dirty ETA data, including avoidable detention and demurrage
• What Tyler sees in the 2026 container trade outlook, from China to Southeast Asia
• Why drayage is still the biggest black box in end-to-end visibility
• How predictive ETA helps teams move from reactive updates to proactive planning

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Links

• Learn more about Vizion: https://www.vizionapi.com/
• Follow Tyler Hughes on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerlh/

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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!

SPI Logistics has been a Day 1 supporter of this podcast which is why we're proud to promote them in every episode. During that time, we've gotten to know the team and their agents to confidently say they are the best home for freight agents in North America for 40 years and counting. Listen to past episodes to hear why.

CargoRex is the search engine for the logistics industry—connecting LSPs with the right tools, services, events, and creators to explore, discover, and evolve.

Digital Dispatch maximizes and manages your #1 sales tool with a website that establishes trust and builds rock-solid relationships with your leads and customers.

Most warehouse operators have no idea what's actually happening on their floor right now. Not a rough estimate. No idea. The WMS says one thing. Ground truth is something else entirely. And the workers running the operation walk 12 to 15 miles a day on concrete trying to close that gap.

In this episode, Blythe talks with Sankalp Arora, CEO and Co-Founder of Gather AI, live at Manifest 2026. Gather AI uses drones and cameras on forklifts to give warehouse operators real-time inventory visibility with no power drops, no new infrastructure, and a facility map completed in one to two weeks. Average customer payback: 4.5 months.

In this episode:

• How drones and forklift cameras work together to turn a warehouse into real-time inventory intelligence -- no power drops ($15,000 each to install), no Wi-Fi constraints
• Why half of every warehouse's total cost is people and equipment traveling, and what that means for where automation investment actually pays off
• The "Amazon Go store" analogy: what a fully instrumented warehouse looks like in practice
• Why the average warehouse worker walks 12 to 15 miles a day on concrete -- and why fixing that is as much a retention play as a productivity one
• What the software stack looks like on a day-to-day basis and why workers end up living in Gather AI's dashboard instead of the legacy WMS
• The 3-step buying framework for operators who've been burned by big capex automation projects before
• What Gather AI's $40M Series B is funding and what end-to-end warehouse orchestration looks like in practice

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Links and resources:
• Gather AI website: gather.ai
• Email Sankalp directly: sankalp@gather.ai
• Gather AI on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/gather-space-ai
• Everything is Logistics: everythingislogistics.com
• Freight tech vendor research: cargorex.io

Feedback? Ideas for a future episode? Shoot us a text here to let us know.

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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!

SPI Logistics has been a Day 1 supporter of this podcast which is why we're proud to promote them in every episode. During that time, we've gotten to know the team and their agents to confidently say they are the best home for freight agents in North America for 40 years and counting. Listen to past episodes to hear why.

CargoRex is the search engine for the logistics industry—connecting LSPs with the right tools, services, events, and creators to explore, discover, and evolve.

Digital Dispatch maximizes and manages your #1 sales tool with a website that establishes trust and builds rock-solid relationships with your leads and customers.