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Drilling Deep: A turnaround coming in diesel?

Also on the podcast: Carrier Logistics looks at the future and the past of transportation management systems

· Friday, August 05, 2022

(Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)

On this week’s opening oil market discussion, podcast host John Kingston looks at the diesel market that has fallen a long way but has some fundamental imbalances that may slow further declines.

Also, Kingston talks with Carrier Logistics’ Ben Wiesen, celebrating the company’s 50th year as a TMS supplier to the less-than-truckload sector. What’s changed in the functionality of the TMS during that time?

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John Kingston

John has an almost 50-year career as a journalist, most of them covering commodities and markets. The largest part of his career was spent at Platts, now part of S&P Global Energy. 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. He was awarded the 2020 Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah International Energy Award for Lifetime Achievement for the Advancement of International Energy Journalism.