FreightWaves Radio preview: the word from the floor of FreightWaves Live

The events of the recently completed FreightWaves LIVE event will be “center stage” on this weekend’s edition of FreightWaves Radio. Tune in to this Saturday’s show from 3-5PM to hear all about the sights, sounds, LEDs, keynotes, FreightTech award winners, donut guys, SONAR 5.0 and the story behind the story.

Transportation analysis legend John Larkin of Clarendon Capital sat down with co-host John Kingston to give his views on the investment scene for acquisitions and startups. Lee Klaskow (pictured above), the transportation analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, also sat in with Kingston to discuss his views of the state of the industry and the economic health of some of the biggest carriers.

In the second hour Dooner and JT Engstrom chime in from Chattanooga with a full rundown of what went down at the FreightTech event of the decade, FreightWaves LIVE Chicago. Hear all about what The Wolf of Wall St said, how the live demos went, who won the FreightTech25, what was best in show, why SONAR 5.0 will change the game forever, and every thing else you need to know to lead the market. 

FreightWaves Radio can be heard Saturday at 3 p.m. Eastern on SiriusXM Road Dog Trucking, channel 146. The show is also replayed Saturday evening at 9 p.m. Eastern and Sunday evening at 7 p.m. It’s also available on demand for streaming customers at all times. 

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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.