Eric Williams has been loud and early on the rate cycle, capacity shifts, and why most brokers are still fighting last year’s war.

Proverbs 19:21 It is the Lord’s purpose that prevails. Not every voice carries truth. Not every signal cuts through the noise.

This is SIGNAL. Grounded in truth.

We talk to the movers, the shakers, and the people actually running freight — not the ones just talking about it.

Today we’re sitting down with a guy who’s lived both sides of the table: Chicago Mercantile Exchange trader, Target logistics (hundreds of millions in spend), brokerage leadership at places like XPO and US Foods, and now the founder of Beagl Technologies; the platform helping brokers stop drowning in RFPs and start winning more of them.

The industry doesn't need another voice. It needs somewhere quiet enough to hear the ones already worth hearing.

Peace and Love.

Alex went from working as an assistant manager at Walgreens, to getting his CDL, to running as an owner-operator, to building one of the biggest and most trusted voices in trucking media. He’s got hundreds of thousands of truckers who tune in daily for unfiltered industry news, real talk, and practical insight. He’s also co-owner of Big Rig Tees and has spent years advocating for drivers, owner-operators, and the people who actually move freight across this country.

What I respect about Alex is that he doesn’t just report the story—he’s lived it. He tells it straight. And in an industry full of noise, spin, and people who never sat in the seat, that kind of grounded honesty matters.

Alex, it’s good to have you here, brother. Welcome to Signal.”

The industry doesn't need another voice. It needs somewhere quiet enough to hear the ones already worth hearing.

Peace and Love.

Bart has spent over 30 years in the trenches of global supply chain and logistics — from PepsiCo to Penske, GE Capital to Elemica — before spending the better part of two decades as a Vice President and Analyst at Gartner, where he became one of the most trusted voices in transportation and logistics research anywhere in the world.

He's covered it all — transportation management systems, freight visibility, yard management, autonomous vehicles, drones, AI in freight — the technologies reshaping how the world moves goods.

In 2022, he stepped out of the analyst seat and into industry, joining project44 as Chief Industry Officer. Today, he runs his own advisory, Bart De Muynck LLC, and founded Better Supply Chains, a platform dedicated to making supply chains smarter, more efficient, and more human.

He chairs ASCM's CHAINge conference across Europe and North America, serves on the Forbes Technology Council, and sits in CSCMP's Executive Inner Circle — but ask anyone in this industry, and they'll tell you: when Bart talks supply chain, people listen.

The industry doesn't need another voice. It needs somewhere quiet enough to hear the ones already worth hearing.

Peace and Love.

Freight has always run on relationships. The problem is that reputation was never verifiable — until CarrierSource. And the platform built for reviews accidentally became the platform sitting on top of real-time shipper purchase intent. What does that mean for small carriers and owner-operators who have never had access to this kind of intelligence?

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The industry doesn't need another voice. It needs somewhere quiet enough to hear the ones already worth hearing.

Peace and Love.

Pete Lunenfeld's journey from a forklift on an LTL dock to building some of the first generative AI tools in logistics.

The question underneath everything: when AI fails in freight, who pays for it? And when it works — does it actually free people, or just create more work?

The industry doesn't need another voice. It needs somewhere quiet enough to hear the ones already worth hearing.

Peace and Love.