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Drilling Deep: Starting a truckload carrier with AI as its backbone

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

· Friday, November 05, 2021

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Fleet AI is a new truckload carrier that is trying to distinguish itself in a field full of new and existing entrants where it’s tough to stand out.

Its founder and CEO is Marc El Khoury. He joins Drilling Deep host John Kingston to talk about how his company is trying to stand out and get that competitive edge by using AI and algorithms.

Also on the podcast, Kingston discusses the possibility of the U.S. and other Western nations releasing oil from their strategic stockpiles to temper further increases in the price of oil.

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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.