On this week’s episode of Drilling Deep, P. Sean Garney of Scopelitis Transportation Consulting takes a look at the regulatory landscape facing trucking and logistics as 2023 exits and 2024 takes its place.
Also this week, host John Kingston talks about the stubborn strength of diesel prices...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/drilling-deep-looking-at-2024-regulatory-landscape-with-scopelitis
On this week’s Drilling Deep, Chris Oliver at Trucker Path discusses a recent finding from his company’s enormous data stream: Parking seems to be getting a little easier to find.
And prices are set by supply and demand. In his oil market commentary, host John Kingston notes that while there has been a lot of focus on supply in recent weeks, the demand picture into 2024 has been a key reason for the slide in oil prices.
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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.
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...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/drilling-deep-how-trucking-fuel-costs-fell-faster-than-pump-prices
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 boost 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 among natural gas prices, diesel prices and the...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/drilling-deep-truck-insurance-and-the-changes-ab5-is-bringing
On this week’s Drilling Deep, host John Kingston returns again to the diesel market, this time reviewing a new 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.
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Drilling Deep: A turnaround coming in diesel
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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Drilling Deep: More on what drives a healthy supply chain
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/drilling-deep-a-turnaround-coming-in-diesel
Host John Kingston attended the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium in early June, and he met so many interesting folks with tales to tell that he’s got his third guest in a row on Drilling Deep coming out of that meeting.
Craig Moore is the vice president of sales for Körber, 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...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/drilling-deep-more-on-what-drives-a-healthy-supply-chain
Karon Evanoff is the vice president of the global supply chain for 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 to a cloud-based approach that is current with the most cutting-edge technology. She discusses what a...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/drilling-deep-how-to-move-off-your-antiquated-supply-chain-systems
FreightWaves’ Henry Byers created a bit of a storm recently when he wrote an article with a provocative title: U.S. 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...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/drilling-deep-collapsing-volumes-of-ocean-freight