Drilling Deep: Tapping into the brains of a leading college to aid trucking

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Sometimes, those on the inside of a company need to turn to an outside perspective. They can always hire consultants for a lot of money. Or in trucking, they can turn to the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics.

On the Drilling Deep podcast this week, David Correll, a research scientist at the center and an expert on trucking, joins host John Kingston to discuss his perspectives on the industry and how he believes that tackling terminal dwell should be a key target in bringing more efficiency to the supply chain.

Also on this week’s Drilling Deep, Kingston talks about why decisions being announced this week are likely to have significant implications for the oil market of the future. From the perspective of diesel consumers, the decisions aren’t favorable.

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John Kingston

John has an almost 40-year career covering commodities, most of the time at S&P Global Platts. 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, one for steering coverage of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster and the other for the launch of a public affairs television show, Platts Energy Week.