John Kingston
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Drilling Deep: In hiring drivers, speed is of the essence
Tenstreet’s Crawford talks about what he’s seeing in the flow of new driver applications.
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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John Kingston
Friday, April 16, 2021
Drilling Deep: The scattered factoring business might become a lot more unified
Also on this week’s podcast: Conflicting info about the US oil upstream that might actually be in sync.
John Kingston
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Drilling Deep: The sharp competition in the visibility sector
Needing to know where your freight is spawns incredibly competitive market
John Kingston
Thursday, April 1, 2021
Drilling Deep: The case for lease purchase deals even as lawsuits grow
Also on this week’s podcast: Why return to air travel could have impact on diesel prices.
John Kingston
Friday, March 19, 2021
Drilling Deep: What truck drivers are going to report to IRS
Also on the podcast: Did Joe Biden help boost the price of oil?
John Kingston
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Drilling Deep: Canada’s very gentle launch of its ELD mandate
The Great North is taking the slow road on implementation
John Kingston
Friday, March 5, 2021
Drilling Deep: What is trucking going to be like in 2030?
Also on the podcast the continuing surge in diesel prices.
John Kingston
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Drilling Deep: Battery technology racing ahead; so is the price of diesel
Several significant steps on the road to electric vehicles have occured just in the past few months.
John Kingston
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Drilling Deep: Getting regulation right to push ahead on autonomous vehicles
Also on the podcast this week: The soaring price of diesel and the impact from the Texas cold snap
John Kingston
Friday, February 12, 2021
Drilling Deep: Reviewing Q4 earnings; how did Werner do so well?
On podcast, Amit Mehrotra of Deutsche Bank looks over the reports for the last quarter of last year
John Kingston
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Drilling Deep: Pushing truck drivers toward front of vaccination line
Also on this week’s podcast: Diesel gains back almost all of the pandemic losses
John Kingston
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Drilling Deep: What the WorkHound feedback stream from drivers said in 2020
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 […]
John Kingston
Friday, January 22, 2021
Drilling Deep: What 2020 meant for more efficient fuel and freight trends
NACFE’s Mike Roeth talks about a year like no other
John Kingston
Thursday, January 14, 2021
Drilling Deep: C.H. Robinson’s O’Brien on the driver for retail supply chain transparency
Also on the podcast: The 10-week run of higher DOE diesel prices and whether they’ll continue
John Kingston
Friday, January 8, 2021
Drilling Deep: Manufacturing’s upcoming boost to trucking
Expect better times in 2021, industry observer says
John Kingston
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Drilling Deep: Looking back on 2020 with Scopelitis Consulting’s Osiecki
Dave Osiecki gives his views on what happened this past year and what might be occuring in 2021.
John Kingston
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Drilling Deep: Making sure ‘cool chain’ works in vaccine distribution
Also on the podcast, a discussion of the red-hot diesel market
John Kingston
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Drilling Deep: a freight tech startup got lots of money; what did it do with it?
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 […]
John Kingston
Friday, December 4, 2020
Drilling Deep: Tapping into the brains of a leading college to aid trucking
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.
John Kingston
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Drilling Deep: Money pours into supplying new warehouse space
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 […]