SIGNAL: Grounded in Truth Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:00:53 -0400 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2631743 en-us © 2026 SIGNAL: Grounded in Truth yes 01aa0b21-9322-55f8-a07b-23428a605332 Michael Vincent episodic true Everyone in this industry has a podcast now. Give it a year, the freight brokers will too.

So yes, we know the irony. We're launching a show into an industry with more voices than listeners, more hot takes than actual takes, more people explaining freight on camera than people who've dispatched a truck. Noise isn't what we're short on. It's what we're drowning in.

Here's the difference. SIGNAL: Grounded in Truth is long-format, on purpose. Truth doesn't fit in ninety seconds. A ninety-second clip is somebody's opinion wearing a blazer. A real conversation, given room to breathe, stops performing and starts being honest — worth thirty minutes of your day, and none of your scrolling.

In 1 Kings 19:11-12, Elijah stood on the mountain expecting God in the wind, the earthquake, the fire — and found Him instead in the still small voice that came after. Most of what passes for insight here is wind, earthquake, and fire. We built this show for the quiet after. That's where the signal lives.

Industry leaders. Operators. People who've lived with their own decisions. No fluff, no scripts, no one performing for an algorithm.

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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.

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Michael Vincent https://storage.buzzsprout.com/y5hzen6icvctbqv0vpw73tz0lmz3?.jpg SIGNAL: Grounded in Truth https://www.buzzsprout.com/2631743 Freight Fraud is no longer a back-office nuisance! Freight Fraud is no longer a back-office nuisance!  Michael Caney is the Chief Commercial Officer at Highway, the freight industry’s leading carrier identity and fraud prevention platform, where he leads marketing, sales, sales engineering, customer success, and partnerships. He is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee “Freight Alley” — and has spent more than 20 years as an operator in freight, starting with his first job out of college as a freight broker with two phones on his desk.

 Freight fraud is no longer a back-office nuisance. It is organized crime. Identity theft, double brokering, and cargo theft as a criminal enterprise are costing the industry hundreds of millions annually — and most carriers have no idea their DOT number can be cloned and used against them before they ever know it happened. Michael Caney has spent three years building the identity infrastructure the industry should have had a decade ago.


 Carriers are not just bystanders in the fraud conversation. Their identities are being stolen. Their reputations are being used by bad actors. And the brokers who are protecting themselves from fraud are increasingly requiring carrier identity verification before they book. The carrier that is not verified is becoming the carrier that does not get the call.

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

Peace and Love.

]]>  Michael Caney is the Chief Commercial Officer at Highway, the freight industry’s leading carrier identity and fraud prevention platform, where he leads marketing, sales, sales engineering, customer success, and partnerships. He is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee “Freight Alley” — and has spent more than 20 years as an operator in freight, starting with his first job out of college as a freight broker with two phones on his desk.

 Freight fraud is no longer a back-office nuisance. It is organized crime. Identity theft, double brokering, and cargo theft as a criminal enterprise are costing the industry hundreds of millions annually — and most carriers have no idea their DOT number can be cloned and used against them before they ever know it happened. Michael Caney has spent three years building the identity infrastructure the industry should have had a decade ago.


 Carriers are not just bystanders in the fraud conversation. Their identities are being stolen. Their reputations are being used by bad actors. And the brokers who are protecting themselves from fraud are increasingly requiring carrier identity verification before they book. The carrier that is not verified is becoming the carrier that does not get the call.

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

Peace and Love.

]]> Michael Vincent Buzzsprout-19748808 Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:00:00 -0500 3560 1 7 full true Market Reality Check: Rates, Capacity & the Cycle Market Reality Check: Rates, Capacity & the Cycle 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.

]]> 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.

]]> Michael Vincent Buzzsprout-19682975 Sun, 23 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0500 2967 1 6 full true Alex Mai the Voice of the Driver is Opening the Door! Alex Mai the Voice of the Driver is Opening the Door! 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.

]]> 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.

]]> Michael Vincent Buzzsprout-19648701 Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0500 3658 1 5 full true The Future of Supply Chain Leadership: From Visibility to Intelligent Execution The Future of Supply Chain Leadership: From Visibility to Intelligent Execution 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.

]]> 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.

]]> Michael Vincent Buzzsprout-19604105 Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0500 3571 1 4 full true Carrier Source: Who Do You Trust? Building Reputation and Winning Freight Carrier Source: Who Do You Trust? Building Reputation and Winning Freight 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.

]]> 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? 

146-media.com

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

Peace and Love.

]]> Michael Vincent Buzzsprout-19582142 Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0500 3379 1 4 full true "The Signal in the Machine: AI, Freight, and the Human Cost of Getting It Wrong" "The Signal in the Machine: AI, Freight, and the Human Cost of Getting It Wrong" 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.

]]> 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.

]]> Michael Vincent Buzzsprout-19526337 Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:00:00 -0500 4176 1 1 full true