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FreightWaves Radio preview: what they talked about at ACT Research

John Kingston
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A trio of interviews from the recent ACT Research conference and a discussion with a leading thought leader on the third-party logistics (3PL) industry highlights this week’s edition of FreightWaves Radio on SiriusXM Road Dog Trucking.

Evan Armstrong of Armstrong & Associates will kick the show off by giving his insights on the state of the 3PL industry, particularly as it deals with rapid changes in logistics technology and the entrance of big new players.

The show will then shift its focus to the ACT Research conference this past week in Indiana. From the floor of the meeting, co-host John Kingston interviewed Peter Latta, the CEO of A. Duie Pyle on conditions in the less-than-truckload industry and the company’s recent security breach; Steve Tam of ACT Research on the state of the market, with a particular emphasis on used trucks; and Tom Moore of the National Private Truck Council discussing the growth of private fleets. 

Seth Holm of FreightWaves’ Freight Intel team will join co-host Tim Dooner and review FreightWaves’ recent report on digital brokerages.


FreightWaves Radio can be heard on SiriusXM channel 146. It airs Saturday at 3:00 p.m. EDT, with a replay at 9:00 p.m. EDT Saturday night and again on Sunday at 7:00 p.m. EDT. It is also available on demand for SiriusXM 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.