# The Questions Every Freight Buyer Should Ask AI Vendors: JOC's Eric Johnson

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Podcast: [The Freight Buyers' Club](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-freight-buyers-club-5997309)
Published: 2026-05-11T14:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

In this clip from The Freight Buyers' Club's latest AI and logtech special, Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor at the Journal of Commerce, gives freight buyers and logistics operators a practical framework for cutting through the AI vendor noise. He covers how he evaluates vendor claims as a journalist, why the compulsion to understand how AI works is the wrong instinct, what blockchain taught us about technology hype, and the specific questions every buyer should be putting to vendors before they commit. #AI #Logistics #FreightTech #SupplyChain #FreightBuying #LogisticsTech #ArtificialIntelligence #FreightForwarding #FreightBuyersClub #SupplyChainTech

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