Sam Smeaton
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276 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 21 Jul
Sam Smeaton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like why should they consider freight or logistics as a viable career path?
see the the result come in the end as well yeah and what do you reckon like i feel like there's a little bit of a misconception sometimes when people think about logistics and think about freight and they might only think okay it's just a warehouse or it's just you know they're stacking shelves and that and that or driving a truck but what different career paths and opportunities
actually exist again for those people that might not be fully across it?
Like which direction can you go in freight forwarding?
And have you got any ideas or thoughts on whether it's like an education piece or how do we get more people?
I think like just actually explaining logistics and explaining the different pathways to people is half the battle, but have you got any ideas or any thoughts
like you as a young person yourself, that we can kind of implement, whether it's more internship opportunities or more courses through universities or like people going into high schools and talking about career paths.
Like, do you have any ideas or thoughts yourself?
Yeah.
And shifting now onto technology and AI and like the role that that's playing, not only across customs, but I guess more broadly across logistics and freight forwarding.
What are you seeing in that space?
And, you know, are you guys sort of playing around implementing anything new or do you think it's going to be a bit of a slow burner as opposed to, you know, I think some people think it's just going to come in and change everything straight away.
And what do you reckon like your role, say customs compiler, classifier, broker, that side, that custom side, how do you see that role shifting over the next few years, if at all?
Like, do you see much change in terms of that particular role or skillset?
I like that, lawyer equivalent.
Yeah, it's a good way to put it actually.
Just going back a bit to, again, school leavers, people about to go to uni or people thinking about their first real corporate kind of full-time job.
What's your favorite part about the job?
you know hybrid remote whatever it looks like like for people like you maybe maybe less so yourself specifically it's a family business but like people your age and your mates and stuff like that how important is flexibility or remote and things like that for people looking for a job i think again because i'm sort of a time capsule myself i know i might be i'll just turn 21 today so
Yeah, awesome.
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