the Crossdock

#11 - TPM Retrospective with Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson is Senior Editor, Technology at the Journal of Commerce. He joins us in the wake of the TPM conference to unpack his biggest takeaways from the show.0:00 Cold open4:25 Tariffs at TPM9:05 Tech (AI Agents, really) at TPM27:20 AI adoption and labor dynamics40:00 Shifts in the RTTVP space50:35 Wrapup

#10 - Takt with Alex Rhea and Noah MacMichael

Alex and Noah – two of the founding team at Takt – make the long trek from the suite directly above the Crossdock to talk about all things warehouse operations. Takt is the warehouse intelligence platform aimed at helping retailers, 3PLs and e-commerce companies better manage their warehouse workforces. You can find them at takt.io.

#9 - GenLogs with Ryan Joyce

CEO and Co-Founder of freight intelligence platform GenLogs stops in to the Crossdock to share his journey and background in freight tech and intelligence. Ryan shared with us his announcement of a new service that GenLogs will be offering for free to help anyone locate stolen or missing assets that might be out on the roads. (Skip to 42:00 if you want to catch that.) 0:00 - Intro 7:10 - Starting up GenLogs 19:42 - GenLogs' data gathering approach 24:39 - GenLogs' asset locator 34:10 - Deploying a roadside network 42:07 - Announcing free service to locate missing assets 54:26 - Combatting fraud with this data 1:05:53 - Raising money and developing the business 1:22:25 - Wrap-up and upcoming conferences

#8 - The One with the '24 Interns

Our interns from this summer wrapped up their time with us this week, and stopped into the studio to reflect on their experience before heading back to UVA.

#7 - TranPak partnership

In preparation for launching our new partnership with TranPak, we recorded this conversation with their founder, Christian Ueland. CargoSense's QR Sensor technology will be embedded on TranPak's reusable plastic pallets beginning this year. 0:00 Intro and partnership origins 2:28 Eureka moment with QR Sensors 3:30 What’s a QR Sensor? 4:46 Plastic pallets and measuring ROI 7:02 QR Sensors meet the data needs for plastic pallets 9:42 Cost of deployment vs active sensor tech 14:07 Untapped use cases for pallet-driven data