Drilling Deep with John Kingston

It's an interesting approach: Prop 22 might allow a drayage company to avoid some of the more onerous aspects of AB5 in California.

That's the theory of Andrew Leone, the CEO of last-mile platform Dispatch. He joins the first-ever video edition of Drilling Deep to discuss that prospect with host John Kingston.

Also on the podcast: the recent drop in crude oil prices is not filtering through to diesel numbers. Kingston tells you why.  

Follow Drilling Deep on Apple Podcasts

Follow Drilling Deep on Spotify

More FreightWaves Podcasts

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It didn't seem possible. A study by ATRI showed that over 10 years, the fuel cost of operating a truck fell twice as fast as the decline in retail diesel prices during that time.

But that was what the data said. On this week's Drilling Deep, host John Kingston speaks with Mike Roeth, the executive director of the North American Council for Freight Efficiency, on how long-term trends in fuel mileage could produce such a result.

Also on the podcast, Kingston talks about a significant factor driving diesel prices down: the value of the dollar.

Follow Drilling Deep on Apple Podcasts

Follow Drilling Deep on Spotify

More FreightWaves Podcasts

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan Abrahamsen is the founder and CEO of Cover Whale, an "insurtech" company that is focused on not only delivering insurance to truckers but using other tools to assist in driver safety.

He joins Drilling Deep host John Kingston to discuss truck insurance in general, and specifically why the insurance market is about to feel the impact of AB5 coming to California's trucking sector.

Also on the podcast, Kingston focuses on the complicated relationship between natural gas prices, diesel prices and the need to take sulfur out of fuel, and how they're all interconnected.

Follow Drilling Deep on Apple Podcasts

Follow Drilling Deep on Spotify

More FreightWaves Podcasts

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's Drilling Deep, host John Kingston returns again to the diesel market, this time reviewing a recent report that has some unsettling news for diesel consumers.

Also on the podcast, the CIO of Sleek Technologies talks about his company's supply chain software solution that puts carriers and shippers together, but doesn't consider itself a digital broker. He tells us why.

Follow Drilling Deep on Apple Podcasts

Follow Drilling Deep on Spotify

More FreightWaves Podcasts

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 on the podcast, Kingston talks with Carrier Logistics' Ben Wiesen, celebrating its 50th year as a supplier of TMS systems to the LTL sector. What's changed in the functionality of the TMS during that time?

Follow Drilling Deep on Apple Podcasts

Follow Drilling Deep on Spotify

More FreightWaves Podcasts

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host John Kingston visited the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium in early June, and he met so many interesting folks with tales to tell that he's got this third guest in a row on Drilling Deep coming out of that meeting.

Craig Moore is the vice president of sales for Korbel, which provides supply chain software that goes into warehouses. What are the challenges in software for that sector compared to other parts of the supply chain? He's on Drilling Deep to discuss.

Also on the podcast, Kingston looks at the suddenly rapidly plummeting price of diesel and the numbers that are driving wholesale and futures prices lower.

Follow Drilling Deep on Apple Podcasts

Follow Drilling Deep on Spotify

More FreightWaves Podcasts

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Karon Evanoff is the vice president of the global supply chain at a major manufacturer of audio equipment. A few years ago, she was saddled with out-of-date systems that weren't keeping up with the latest developments in supply chain software and visibility.

She joins host John Kingston on Drilling Deep to talk about her company's supply chain transformation and what it took to change direction into a cloud-based approach that is current with the most cutting edge technology. She discusses what a company needs to do to get there.

Also on the podcast, Kingston talks about the missing data from the Energy Information Administration that so many in trucking rely on every week. What  happened to it?

Follow Drilling Deep on Apple Podcasts

Follow Drilling Deep on Spotify

More FreightWaves Podcasts

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FreightWaves' Henry Byers created a bit of a storm recently when he wrote an article for FreightWaves.com with the provocative title: US import demand is dropping off a cliff.

In this week's edition of Drilling Deep, Byers sits down with host John Kington to talk about the methodology used to reach that conclusion, and what it means for the larger issue of backed-up supply chains.

Also on the podcast, Kingston looks at what a just-released oil market report says about the diesel market, and why it continues to outperform crude oil and gasoline in such a dramatic way.

Follow Drilling Deep on Apple Podcasts

Follow Drilling Deep on Spotify

More FreightWaves Podcasts

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium in Orlando, podcast host John Kingston sat down with two executives from Four Kites to talk about visibility in the supply chain and what companies like Four Kites need to do in the post-pandemic market to meet customer needs.

Also on the podcast, Kingston discusses how an environmental rule from 2020 may be impacting diesel prices now, after years of being a non-factor.

Follow Drilling Deep on Apple Podcasts

Follow Drilling Deep on Spotify

More FreightWaves Podcasts

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are lots of entry points into the trucking industry: driver, broker, mechanic. One that doesn't get a lot of attention is the role of an independent dispatcher.

But that job is the focus of what Laura Weston does. She's the head of Effective Dispatching Plus and it's her job to take somebody who might be interested in entering the trucking business as a dispatcher and tell them how to prepare. As she notes on the Drilling Deep podcast with host John Kingston, it is a way to get into the business with a relatively low barrier of entry that may also allow you to perform dispatching as a second career.

Also on the podcast, Kingston discusses the latest further tightening of East Coast diesel supplies but why it isn't showing up in some key numbers.

Follow Drilling Deep on Apple Podcasts

Follow Drilling Deep on Spotify

More FreightWaves Podcasts

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices