Drilling Deep Podcast
Trucks, oil, trains, and industry deep dives highlight this show, which is hosted by John Kingston.
John Kingston is a business journalist of almost 40 years, covering everything from metals to financial markets, and now turning his focus to trucking and transport. He spent almost 30 years covering oil markets with S&P Global Platts, and his broadcast background includes many years as Platts’ “talking head” on CNBC, Fox Business, Canada’s BNN and other broadcast outlets. His activities at FreightWaves includes serving as the oil expert for FW’s SONAR database product, where he provides daily analysis.
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Drilling Deep: A greater private sector role on the nation’s highways?
Also on this week’s podcast: new technologies gunning to displace diesel, but it’s a tough battle
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Drilling Deep: New drivers aren’t coming out of CDL schools and that’s a problem
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…
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Drilling Deep: StayMetrics data digs into driver retention during pandemic
CEO Tim Hindes also talks about race and the trucking industry.
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Drilling Deep: The mental state of drivers dealing with the pandemic
A professor from UH-Downtown, who also was a driver, is studying the issue
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Drilling Deep: Trucking market ‘on fire’; diesel market barely notices Laura
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
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Drilling Deep: Efficiency challenges facing intermodal rail
With diesel cheap, the fuel advantage for moving a ton of freight narrows for the railroads.
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Drilling Deep: The US Postal Service at a crossroads
FreightWaves' Mark Solomon, who has been covering the service for years, gives his take on the latest crisis.
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Drilling Deep: Loan forgiveness is the next big step as PPP moves toward its completion
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…
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Drilling Deep: What invoices are telling us about the strength of the freight market
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…
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Drilling Deep: Fighting nuclear verdicts by preparing for them now
Using a third-party administrator is touted as a way to ward off big verdicts against trucking firms.
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