Drilling Deep Podcast

In the closing edition of Drilling Deep for 2023, P. Sean Garney of Scopelitis looks at the regulatory landscape for the new year.

On this week’s Drilling Deep, we talk truck parking and weakening oil demand. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)

Neste technical manager joins Drilling Deep to discuss the ways renewable diesel is beneficial both inside and outside of the transportation industry.

How did fuel costs decline over almost 10 years at a rate far greater than the decline of retail diesel prices?

The podcast covers three topics: truck insurance, its impact from AB5 and what links prices for natural gas and diesel to the removal of sulfur from fuel.

There’s a new report out that should concern diesel buyers.

Diesel has been sliding for weeks but it may be masking underlying tightness. Also on the podcast: Carrier Logistics on TMS.

In the third in a series of podcasts on the providers of supply chain solutions, Craig Moore of Korbel talks about the needs of the warehouse sector.

What’s it like to have a totally antiquated supply chain management process and build a new one from the ground up? Karon Evanoff tells her story.

On this week’s Drilling Deep podcast, host John Kingston talks with colleague Henry Byers about the data that shows a coming collapse in ocean freight movements.

At a key supply chain forum, executives from FourKites sit down and talk about visibility and the need to meet increasing customer demands.

It’s another entry point into the business: being a dispatcher. Laura Weston joins Drilling Deep to talk about that route.

Pitt Ohio’s Geoffrey Muessig says there are steps shippers can take to create a stronger and more profitable relationship with their LTL carriers.

Distracted driving is a problem. The product offered by NoCell is designed to reduce it, but there is some resistance.

Spencer Tenney speaks on the state of merger and acquisitions in trucking and freight brokerage; host John Kingston addresses East Coast diesel.

With first-quarter earnings pretty much all in the book, Todd Fowler of KeyBank discusses how trucking performed in a strong quarter.

The trucking industry is looking to pull young people into the industry through a new group. FreightWaves talks to the organization’s president.

Freight brokers, just like the truck drivers they serve, are in hot demand. A recruiter in the business discusses why. Also: diesel breaks another record.

The acquisition market for truck freight brokerages is hot these days. A banker involved in such deals joins host John Kingston on the podcast. Also: why the diesel market is helping to drive oil prices higher.

How did truck drivers do in 2021? Their tax returns tell the story. And how jet fuel is impacting the price of diesel.

Also on the podcast: Transplace’s view of the supply chain and whether it’s getting any better.

Also on the podcast: diesel is kicking crude’s butt.

Host John Kingston also discusses why retail diesel prices haven’t plummeted with the fall in futures prices.

A Kansas truck stop less than 2 years old already is recognized as one of the best in the country.

Brian Thompson shares how SMC3 gets employees ready to take on the market.

There’s a lot of bad information out there about the state of the oil market.

Also on the podcast: The torrid pace of diesel consumption.

Also on the podcast: the global slowdown in oil refining.

Also on the podcast: Some numbers that point to why the diesel market is climbing.

Host John Kingston also looks at renewable diesel, which might not be as plentiful as envisioned.

Also covered on the podcast is the spillover from the natural gas price surge.

Host John Kingston dives into the surging price of oil and diesel.

Also on the podcast: What’s holding back US investment in more oil drilling?

Also on the podcast: The incredible shrinking US refining sector.

Also on the podcast: The market for diesel exhaust fluid.

Also on the podcast: OPEC+ surprises with more oil in January.

Also on the podcast: What the release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve means.

Also on the podcast: Is the tide turning in oil markets?

Also on the podcast: Why banning oil exports would have no impact on prices.

Also on the podcast: Time to tap strategic oil stocks?

Also on the podcast: The growing tie between high natural gas prices and what you’re paying for diesel.

Also on the podcast: checking on the numbers in the red-hot diesel market.

This episode also dives into the tight inventories facing the diesel market.

Also on the podcast: A roundup of recent news in the oil and diesel world.

Trucks release a lot of data. Two attorneys from the Benesch law firm discuss the ownership of that data on this week’s podcast.

Times are very good for independent drivers, according to a person who works with their finances.

FreightWaves’ Brian Straight was at the big conference for home delivery in the city of brotherly love.

Also on the podcast: The founder of a logistics startup surveys the pre-holiday supply chain.

Also on the podcast: Trimble’s Delaney looks at the TMS landscape today.

The latest IEA report shows an oil supply/demand imbalance may be on its way to easing.

Also on the podcast: The investment drought in oil setting the table for higher prices

Also on this week’s podcast: A shoutout to fuel surcharges.

Also on the podcast: the current roller coaster in diesel prices.

Also on the podcast: A key agency reviews the outlook for the tight oil market.

Also on the podcast: Why the latest OPEC meeting was so unique

Also on the podcast, host John Kingston talks about one of the final “return to normal” numbers being achieved in oil markets.

Wood is a problem and plastic is expensive; it’s just one more pressure point to worry about in the supply chain.

Also on the podcast: Why a weaker dollar isn’t great news for diesel buyers.

Also on the podcast: A renewed surge in diesel prices.

Also on the podcast: the flat market in diesel of the past few weeks may be disappearing.

Tenstreet’s Crawford talks about what he’s seeing in the flow of new driver applications.

Also on this week’s podcast: Conflicting info about the US oil upstream that might actually be in sync.

Needing to know where your freight is spawns incredibly competitive market

Also on this week’s podcast: Why return to air travel could have impact on diesel prices.

Also on the podcast: Did Joe Biden help boost the price of oil?

The Great North is taking the slow road on implementation

Also on the podcast the continuing surge in diesel prices.

Several significant steps on the road to electric vehicles have occured just in the past few months.

Also on the podcast this week: The soaring price of diesel and the impact from the Texas cold snap

On podcast, Amit Mehrotra of Deutsche Bank looks over the reports for the last quarter of last year

Also on this week’s podcast: Diesel gains back almost all of the pandemic losses

When drivers get a chance to give anonymous feedback to their employers, they often use the services of WorkHound, a cell phone-based service that can send back their thoughts, good and bad. Founder and CEO Max Farrell joined host John Kingston on the Drilling Deep podcast this week to talk about his company’s service and […]

NACFE’s Mike Roeth talks about a year like no other

Also on the podcast: The 10-week run of higher DOE diesel prices and whether they’ll continue

Expect better times in 2021, industry observer says

Dave Osiecki gives his views on what happened this past year and what might be occuring in 2021.

Also on the podcast, a discussion of the red-hot diesel market

What do you do when you find yourself with $7 million?  Maven Machines succeeded in raising that much money this year to invest in its cloud-based freight software, which includes an ELD product and machine learning-driven route optimization. It also hired a lot of people. Its founder and CEO Avi Geller joins host John Kingston […]

U.S. Xpress brings on the team at MIT to study greater efficiency. A member of that team discusses the program’s activities in this podcast.

On this week’s Drilling Deep podcast, Thomas LaSalvia of Moody’s Analytics REIS looks at the market for warehouse space additions being driven by the growth in e-commerce. And he finds that even as demand for it is soaring, the supply of new space is keeping up and it’s keeping rents relatively soft. Also on this […]

Weston LaBar is the CEO of the Harbor Trucking Association. That’s the trade group that represents the drayage community in the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. On this week’s edition of Drilling Deep, LaBar joins host John Kingston to discuss the group’s recent call for the Federal Maritime Administration to step in and […]

The earnings season for the third quarter has wrapped up and Todd Fowler of KeyBanc has a few things to say. Fowler is the lead transportation analyst at KeyBanc and he shares his perspective on the numbers on this week’s edition of Drilling Deep. What companies did things that were notable? And what did the […]

Ryder is a major seller of used trucks. So it was notable that in its quarterly earnings report, it said the amount of money it was getting from the sale of used trucks was better than its estimates and that the market had been a pleasant surprise. To talk about the market for used trucks, […]

On this week’s Drilling Deep, P. Sean Garney of Scopelitis Transportation Consulting looks at the recent federal guidelines for hair testing to determine if drivers, or potential drivers, have drugs in their system. And Garney wonders: Will this ever get off the ground to become an industry standard? He’ll talk about why he’s skeptical. Also […]

On this week’s Drilling Deep, host John Kingston brings in his colleague Mark Solomon again to talk about the state of the U.S. Postal Service. Solomon was a guest on Drilling Deep not all that long ago to talk about the same subject. But the amount of new controversy that has arisen since then means […]

Also on this week’s edition: diesel did something last week it hasn’t done in at least 30 years.

Soon after Dave Ables took over as president and CEO of Dart Transit Co. and as the first days of the pandemic receded into a strong freight market, he knew there was a problem: retaining and attracting drivers. So the Minnesota-based company put through an increase in compensation on several different fronts. It wasn’t just […]

With a freight market this good, why would anybody want to sell a logistics business? But there are people who do and people or companies that want to buy. On this week’s Drilling Deep, Peter Stefanovich of Left Lane Associates talks to host John Kingston about how strong the market for properties is these days […]

Also on this week’s podcast: new technologies gunning to displace diesel, but it’s a tough battle

Jeremy Reymer is the founder and CEO of DriverReach, but he’s also a member of the research advisory committee for ATRI, the research arm of the American Trucking Associations. He’s the guest this week on Drilling Deep, and he’s got a good perspective on one of the reasons why the driver market is so tight: […]

CEO Tim Hindes also talks about race and the trucking industry.

A professor from UH-Downtown, who also was a driver, is studying the issue

The head transportation analyst at Deutsche Bank says a market that sped up through the second quarter has raced ahead so far in the third

With diesel cheap, the fuel advantage for moving a ton of freight narrows for the railroads.

FreightWaves’ Mark Solomon, who has been covering the service for years, gives his take on the latest crisis.

The program ends soon for new applicants, but those who have received money will need to go through the process to enable them to avoid paying the funds back.

Whenever there’s a transaction in the supply chain, there’s an invoice. And a lot of those invoices get processed by US Bank, which has long had a large amount of business in the trucking sector. The bank puts together a quarterly summary known as the U.S. Bank’s Freight Payment Index, and it’s a good barometer […]

Using a third-party administrator is touted as a way to ward off big verdicts against trucking firms.

Industry organization held its annual meeting in the middle of a pandemic. The podcast discusses how they did it.

With the release of the identities of the biggest recipients of money under the Paycheck Protection Program, reviewing all the names of those who got money and figuring out how this will impact the industry’s operations is now the hot topic of discussion in trucking. On this week’s Drilling Deep podcast, host John Kingston sits […]