Drilling Deep: Talking Saia, Hub Group and how trucking did in Q1

Also on the podcast: The scary tight inventories of diesel on the East Coast

Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves

With first-quarter earnings pretty much all in the book, Todd Fowler of KeyBank discusses how trucking performed in a strong quarter.With first-quarter earnings in the book, Todd Fowler of KeyBank joins host John Kingston on Drilling Deep to talk about the strong opening to the year and whether it’s sustainable.

He addresses a few companies specifically: Saia (NASDAQ: SAIA), Hub Group (NASDAQ; HUBG) and Old Dominion Freight Lines (NASDAQ: ODFL).

Also on the podcast, Kingston discusses the inventory numbers for ultra low sulfur diesel on the East Coast that are starting to become so tight that they’re scary.

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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.