Logistics at a Crossroads
Hosted by Regina "Gia" Hunter
Where freight meets real life. Hosted by Gia — logistics veteran, cancer survivor, and truth-teller — “Logistics at a Crossroads” explores the industry, identity, and the grit it takes to keep showing up. Freight. Feelings. No filter.
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- Regina "Gia" Hunter
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Website: https://logisticsatacrossroads.buzzsprout.com/
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Recent episodes
S2 🎙️ Episode 10 — The Container Is Sitting There. So Why Am I Paying You?
· 8 min
Send us Fan Mail Demurrage. Detention. Two words capable of starting an argument almost anywhere in ocean freight. These charges are supposed to encourage cargo and equipment to keep moving. But what happens when the shipper or trucker wants to move the equipment—and physically cannot? In this episo
S2 🎙️Episode 9 — When Plan B Needs a Plan B: What Happens When There Is No Good Detour?
· 21 min
Send us Fan Mail Logistics loves a contingency plan. Port congested? Reroute it. Carrier unavailable? Find another. Shipping lane disrupted? Take another route. Simple, right? Not exactly. In this episode, Gia looks at what happens when the backup option becomes expensive, congested, delayed, or ris
S2 🎙️Episode 8 — Diesel Doesn't Care About Your Freight Budget
· 13 min
Send us Fan Mail Diesel does not care about your annual budget. It does not care what transportation quoted three months ago. And it definitely does not care what somebody already promised the customer. When fuel prices climb, somebody eventually pays. In this episode, Gia breaks down how fuel costs
S2 🎙️ Episode 7 — Where Did All the Drivers Go?
· 11 min
Send us Fan Mail We’ve been hearing about the truck driver shortage for years. But maybe we’ve been asking the wrong question. Instead of asking where all the drivers went, what if we asked what kind of transportation system we’re expecting them to work inside? In this episode, Gia looks beyond the
S2 🎙️Episode 6 — Park It: When a Trucker Sit-Out Rumor Becomes a Grassroots Warning
· 26 min
Send us Fan Mail October 1. Park your trucks. Sit out. Don't move any freight until someone helps us. Why do/did people think this was going to happen? On this episode of Holding the Line: Logistics at a Crossroads we dive into why this rumor started and what's going on with the trucking industry th
S2 🎙️Episode 5 — Training by Tribal Knowledge: Why “Ask Somebody” Is Not a Training Program
· 13 min
Send us Fan Mail “If you get stuck, just ask Dave.” Congratulations. You do not have a training program. You have tribal knowledge. In this episode, Gia digs into one of logistics’ quietest operational risks: critical knowledge that exists only inside the heads of experienced employees. A PDF buried
S2-🎙️ Episode 4- The Planner Was the Last to Know (And Not a Magician)
· 12 min
Send us Fan Mail customer promise. Then logistics got an email asking if we could make it work by Monday. Sound familiar? In this episode of Holding the Line: Logistics at a Crossroads, Gia talks about the planner’s role as the human shock absorber of the supply chain. Planning, forecasting, schedul
S2 🎙️Episode 3 — Peak Season Has Left the Calendar: When Every Month Feels Like an Emergency
· 13 min
Send us Fan Mail Remember back when peak season was… well, a season? You planned for it. You staffed for it. You survived it. Then came the offseason and everybody could finally catch their breath. Things don’t work that way anymore. Gia discusses what happens when freight surges aren’t temporary. W
S2 🎙️Episode 2 — Freight Cuts Have Faces: Running on Fumes
· 13 min
Send us Fan Mail A freight recession may look like a line dipping on a chart—but on the road, it has faces. In this episode, Gia looks beyond the numbers to examine what carrier closures, layoffs, rising costs, and shrinking capacity actually mean for the people inside the system. Small carriers are
S2-🎙️ Episode 1 What Season 2 Is Really About
· 15 min
Send us Fan Mail In this opening episode, Gia looks beyond containers, dashboards, rates, and routing guides to talk about the human beings behind every shipment. Planners organizing chaos. Drivers searching for safe parking. Supervisors trying to meet impossible targets. Employees carrying the pres