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FreightWaves Radio preview: ACT Research, AI in the cab, DC outlook

John Kingston
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Join us this weekend on FreightWaves Radio on SiriusXM Road Dog Trucking! On this week’s show, co-hosts John Kingston and Chad Prevost will be chatting with:

– Kenny Veith, the President of ACT Research, about the sharp dropoff in Class 8 truck orders as well as any signs pointing to whether the market has turned around.

– Jennifer Haroon, the chief operating officer of Nauto, which is bringing artificial intelligence into the cab to catch distracted driving and warn about it before it’s too late.

– Mike Posz, director of safety at Fraley & Schilling, talking about the nexus between driver retention and safety.


–  John Gallagher, FreightWaves’ man in Washington, who is going to discuss an interesting week for trucking in the nation’s capital.

John & Chad will also be talking about the reports this week that showed Wall Street analysts souring on the trucking sector.

FreightWaves Radio can be heard on SiriusXM Road Dog Trucking channel 146 live between 3-5 p.m. Eastern on Saturday, and replayed 9-11 p.m. Saturday and 7-9 p.m. Sunday. It’s also available on demand for SiriusXM streaming subscribers.


John Kingston

John has an almost 40-year career covering commodities, most of the time at S&P Global Platts. He created the Dated Brent benchmark, now the world’s most important crude oil marker. He was Director of Oil, Director of News, the editor in chief of Platts Oilgram News and the “talking head” for Platts on numerous media outlets, including CNBC, Fox Business and Canada’s BNN. He covered metals before joining Platts and then spent a year running Platts’ metals business as well. He was awarded the International Association of Energy Economics Award for Excellence in Written Journalism in 2015. In 2010, he won two Corporate Achievement Awards from McGraw-Hill, an extremely rare accomplishment, one for steering coverage of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster and the other for the launch of a public affairs television show, Platts Energy Week.