A look back at the biggest ideas from The Fleet — where mobility, infrastructure, data, and the driver experience all start becoming one connected system. I pulled the sharpest moments from the show into a single episode; here's what the people actually building modern fleet keep coming back to.
"Just tell the AI not to delete the database" — if only it were that easy. I sat down with Camunda CTO Daniel Meyer over on my IT Visionaries channel to dig into why prompts alone can't govern AI agents, and what governing by structure instead of instruction actually looks like.
Every product you ship rides on thousands of tiny procurement decisions — and most companies are still making them in stale spreadsheets. Over on my IT Visionaries channel, Veritos.AI cofounder Shardul Shah explains how real-time supply chain intelligence turns procurement from reactive firefighting into a genuine strategic advantage.
Sometimes the smartest freight route is A to C to B. On The Fleet, ASU industrial engineer Lacy Greening breaks down the hidden math of the middle mile — why networks make moves that look wrong until you see the numbers, how locally smart decisions create network-wide problems, and where AI actually helps (and where it doesn't).
Fleet moves your mail, your produce, your workforce — and most people have no idea how big the industry actually is. On The Fleet, Black Fleet Network founder Zā Farley makes the case that network is a verb, not a title, and that the fleet leaders growing are the ones refusing to "dinosaur" themselves out.
A practical playbook from The Fleet: BD's Jennifer VrMeer on keeping drivers moving while the business changes around them — acquisitions, divestitures, vendor consolidation, and the hidden cost of staying too long with the wrong fleet management company. If you've ever had to keep a fleet running through chaos, this one's for you.
The biggest lever in fleet management isn't the tech, the policy, or the vendor. On The Fleet, UCB's Michael Acosta — who runs 1,300+ vehicles across four countries with a two-person team — makes the case that it's driver buy-in, and shares the anonymous message board that revealed what no survey ever could.
4 people. 18,000 vehicles. No blown engines. On The Fleet, Rollins Fleet Director Charles Schott — who's run 30,000+ vehicles across 70 countries at Pfizer and armored fleets at Brinks — breaks down how a tiny team runs one of North America's largest service fleets on a single operating principle: FLOW.
Installing cameras made incident rates go UP — and that's exactly what you want. On The Fleet, Element's Brian Kinniry explains why fleet safety is shifting from "train after the crash" to catching risk before it happens, how nuclear verdicts turned your safety data into legal evidence, and how one training module cut preventable incidents 35%.
A future-facing one from The Fleet: futurist Colin Dhillon (ImagineQ, advisor to NuPort Robotics) on how Physical AI — neural networks plus autonomous systems — is reshaping fleet economics faster than most leaders realize. Lights-out factories, disappearing truck cabins, and why the last human job is placing a safety cone.
The criminals stealing your cargo aren't breaking locks — they're forging paperwork. On The Fleet, Overhaul's Danny Ramon breaks down how fraud-based cargo theft extracts 98% of a load while handing you perfect documents, why toilet paper became a premium target, and the two defenses every fleet needs.
Everyone says electrification is what's transforming fleets. On The Fleet, McKinsey's Philipp Kampshoff and Element Mobility CTO Dor Shay make the case that it's actually autonomy — and that $1 trillion in outside investment (94% from tech, not auto) is accelerating the change faster than anyone predicted.
You're not stuck because there aren't enough chargers. On The Fleet, Ontario Tech professor Dr. Sheldon Williamson explains why the real constraint is when and how power hits the grid — not where vehicles sit — and why tomorrow's fleet leaders will need energy literacy as much as operational know-how.
The problem with electric fleets isn't the battery — it's the vehicle. On The Fleet, IndiGO Technologies founder and CEO Will Graylin makes the case that today's fleets have outgrown the vehicles they run on, and why electrification only works when the vehicle, the charging, and the deployment are designed as one system.
The next fleet evolution isn't electric — it's contextual. Damon CEO Dominique Kwong on how "data with context" stops accidents before they happen, why micro-mobility is rewriting last-mile delivery, and how Gen Z might kill vehicle ownership faster than anyone expects.
