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Weekly logistics news with operational weight.
Logistics Matters with DC VELOCITY is a weekly logistics news program from DC Velocity’s editorial team. Episodes pair practical interviews with fast-moving coverage of returns, automation, transportation risk, retail fulfillment, and global trade pressure.
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Logistics Matters with DC VELOCITY is a weekly logistics and supply chain news program built around practical industry change. It moves quickly. Each episode opens with a compact rundown of the week’s themes, then turns to an interview or editor-led discussion that explains one operational problem in more depth. The show’s center of gravity is the working supply chain: returns, warehouses, transportation networks, retail fulfillment, ports, automation, labor, risk, and the technology now sitting inside those systems. Recent conversations treat customer returns as more than a back-office nuisance. They become questions of shipping cost, donation channels, tax receipts, sustainability, and whether the customer experience can stay simple while the logistics behind it changes. Automation coverage is similarly grounded. Robots, warehouse software, gamification, and lights-out fulfillment are discussed through the realities of distribution centers rather than through hype alone. Transportation stories bring in fleet safety, distracted driving, diesel prices, cross-border movement, and the role of AI in spotting driver risk. The show also pays attention to global volatility. Episodes connect conflict, energy shocks, the Strait of Hormuz, air cargo disruption, and the need for targeted intelligence and scenario planning. Retail remains a recurring lens, especially as stores become fulfillment assets and consumers mix online ordering with in-store pickup. Pharmaceutical supply chains, cold storage, port-proximate facilities, and trade oversight roles broaden the beat beyond parcel and warehouse operations. The editorial voice is measured and direct. It is not a general business show with occasional logistics examples; it is a logistics show that assumes the details matter. Dave Maloney frames the program, with Ben Ames and Victoria Kickham recurring in the editorial mix. Guests add subject-matter perspective from companies tied to returns management, fleet technology, automation, risk analysis, and global shipping. The result is useful for listeners who want to know what supply chain professionals are watching this week. It is especially strong when a headline can be translated into concrete consequences for retailers, 3PLs, fleets, shippers, and distribution centers. The pace is brisk, but the emphasis stays practical. Logistics Matters with DC VELOCITY works best as a weekly operational radar: what changed, who is affected, and what companies may need to plan for next.
Made for: Designed for supply chain professionals, logistics operators, retailers, fleet managers, 3PL teams, warehouse leaders, and vendors who need industry news with practical context.
What sets it apart: The show ties weekly logistics headlines to the actual operating decisions behind them, using DC Velocity’s editorial bench and focused guest interviews rather than broad business commentary.
The editors of DC VELOCITY magazine bring you weekly updates on logistics, material handling, and supply chain news.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
A practical briefing on the technologies, costs, and risks shaping freight, fulfillment, warehouses, and retail operations.
Logistics Matters with DC VELOCITY turns operational problems into brisk, structured conversations about how goods move and where the system strains.
Warehouse robots meet wartime shipping shocks, while Dave Maloney keeps your supply-chain briefing moving.
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A return label sends unwanted goods toward a nonprofit, with shipping costs and transit distance in view.
A return label usually points toward a retailer's warehouse. In Dave Maloney's conversation with Liquid Donate CEO Disney Petit, it can point to a nearby nonprofit that wants the item instead.
Stefan Heck shows how spotting one driver's nighttime risk led to a different shift.
Distracted driving leads this week's Logistics Matters, with surging diesel prices and high-tech cold storage also on the agenda. Stefan Heck gives DC Velocity's editors a case with a practical answer: a driver ran stop signs at night because of night blindness but drove well…
Ian Massey offers businesses practical planning questions amid wartime supply chain disruption.
Oil tankers stuck in the Strait of Hormuz and disrupted air cargo through the Middle East are putting supply chains under pressure. In Victoria Kickham's conversation with Ian Massey, the concern moves from immediate shipping problems to the possibility of rising input costs.
Jake Heldenberg maps where a lights-out warehouse could work and where flexibility still falls short.
Jake Heldenberg has only recently come to see lights-out warehouses as a realistic prospect, even though the idea has been around for years. His forecast is specific: a warehouse handling cartons within a defined size range and certain order profiles could run without people on…
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This episode discusses managing retail returns after the holiday season and global trade complexity, with insights from industry editors.
Liquid Donate routes unsellable returns to nonprofits within 30 miles instead of sending them back 1,000 miles.
Stefan Heck of Nauto argues that distracted driving is the largest safety risk in trucking, with data showing "70% of all damage" and "50% of collisions." He says AI systems can look five to six seconds ahead, detect phones, tablets, and driver gaze, and cut collisions far more than traditional telematics or dash cams.
Logistics Matters with DC Velocity pairs Ian Massey’s war-risk briefing with two industry shifts: port-proximate warehousing and pharma AI.
Logistics Matters with DC VELOCITY examines how the war involving Iran is affecting shipping disruptions, energy volatility, air cargo constraints, rates, and capacity.
Tractor Supply's Colin Yankee said, "big and bulky objects can choke a DC," and the company "de-automated" its warehouses.