Drilling Deep with John Kingston

On the final edition of Drilling Deep, ATBS President Todd Maiden tells us how drivers did financially in 2023. And host John Kingston signs off with a warning: don't give in to hysteria on oil prices. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amogy is one of many companies trying to make hydrogen the transportation fuel of the future. They've got a unique approach and Maciek Lukawski of Amogy talks with John Kingston about their ambitious plans. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The head of Mexico's intermodal association joins John Kingston to discuss why intermodal service from Mexico is key to a reshoring of manufacturing into North America Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wrapping up 2024 with Scopelitis' Garney and a look at the regulatory landscape. Also: the permanent new diesel spread? Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Oliver of Trucker Path has the data: it looks like finding a place for a truck to pull over for several hours is not as daunting as it was in the past few years. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Theresa Lanowitz of AT&T talks edge computing and its impact on keeping systems safe. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Clayton Griffin of OTR Solutions talks about why some 3PL chapter 11 filings pose a risk to carriers. Also: the OPEC+ meeting and the impact on oil prices. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We've got two executives from Wabash to discuss. Also: next week's OPEC+ meeting. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robin Gregg of RoadSync discusses recent trends. Also: rising crude production is pushing down oil prices Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Antwon Banks of the National Motor Freight Traffic Association, fresh off a key industry conference, talks about the current state of cybersecurity in the trucking sector. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Lueck of Neste talks about his efforts to widen the reach of Neste MY, the company's renewable diesel product, beyond the hot market in California. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Max Farrell of WorkHound talks a new federal rule that might give a boost to more unions in the logistics workplace. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The North American Council for Freight Efficiency recently ran its "Run on Less" event with a focus completely on battery-electric vehicles. What did it show? Its executive director Mike Roeth joins John Kingston to talk about it. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Susan Fall of Launchit Public Relations and a long-time San Diegan talks about why that city is one of the biggest centers for the telematics industry. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nic Sallis of FleetDrive 360 talks compliance and host John Kingston talks soaring diesel prices on this week’s edition. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jim Aliosi of MIT talks about a recent paper he published looking at solutions for the U.S. Highway Trust Fund, which already was underfunded and now faces a loss of revenue from electric cars that don't pay taxes into the fund even though they use the highways that are maintained by spending from it. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

RoadEx says it can pay its factoring clients in minutes in a new offering. It's a big boast but Samer Hamede of RoadEx joins Drilling Deep to present what his company is doing. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim Dean, a driver for Werner, recently hit 5-million accident-free miles while driving for Werner. He's here along with Werner's VP-Operations Angelo Gibson to talk about how such an achievement is possible. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Cody of NEWITY is an expert on how small to medium-sized businesses can obtain funding backed by the Small Business Administration and discusses it on this edition of Drilling Deep. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transfix recently created an advisory council of shippers as another way of keeping connected to the broader market. Rachel Meranus of Transfix joins Drilling Deep to talk about what the digital brokerage hopes to get out of this initiative. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adam Khan of Netradyne talks about how the company is using their camera systems more to boost drivers instead of just as a corrective tool. Also: the suddenly rising cost of diesel. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Customs Companies recently moved its entire customer service operation to outsource partner DDC FPO. What are the pros and cons of that shift? Execs from both companies are here to talk about it. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Allen Schaeffer is the executive director of the Diesel Technology Forum, and it's his organization's goal to keep diesel relevant as new mobility technologies emerge alongside government mandates. He speaks about recent developments and the result of some recent research his group conducted. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura Rainier of Gartner discusses what Scope 3 emissions are and how no matter where you are in the supply chain, they are likely to matter to you even if you don't think so now. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rajesh Rudraradhya is the chief technology officer of Lytx, one of the pioneers in camera technology for trucks. He is our guest this week to talk about where the technology has been and where it's going. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Software giant recently surveyed its customers on the health of the supply chain. Chirag Modi, Corporate Vice President, Industry Strategy, sat down to talk about it. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mic Yariv of Omnitracs joins host John Kingston to talk about the surge in double brokering and how technology can be used to fight it. Also: why are the markets so sanguine about oil prices? Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Neil Costa is the CEO of HireClix. His company is hired by trucking and other companies to run their recruitment efforts on social media. What works and what doesn’t today in this rapidly evolving landscape? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's Drilling Deep, Justin Baile of Rose Rocket talks about the concept of "collaborative trucking" and how it increases efficiency and productivity Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Planeta is a vice president of Heffernan Insurance Brokers and he speak with John Kingston about the upward push in insurance rates that has been burdening trucking for several years now and whether there might be relief ahead. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Finnish international oil company Neste has created Neste MY Renewable Diesel. Neste's Matt Lueck stops by the show to talk about his company's ambitious plans.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dwell time and detention are uneconomic ways of drivers spending their time. But how can the extent of it be measured. Trimble thinks it has a way and Trimble's Rishi Mehra joins Drilling Deep to talk about it. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Midwest carrier named Rapid Response was sold recently into an Employee Stock Ownership Plan. Why would that method of selling be pursued? How do the workers benefit? An investment banker who helped put the deal together, Albert del Pilar from the investment firm of Butcher Joseph, joins Drilling Deep to talk about why an ESOP may be the way to go. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's Drilling Deep, Allan Schaeffer of the Diesel Technology Forum gives an overview of where diesel technology stands as alternative energy sources try to capture the heavy duty vehicle market. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben Wiesen is the CEO  of Carrier Logistics, which provides software services to the LTL sector. He joins Drilling Deep to discuss what happens when LTL trucking is brought inside a truckload carrier. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nobody has better data on the earnings of independent owner operators than ATBS, which does tax services for many drivers. Its president, Todd Amen, joins Drilling Deep to talk about what the numbers say this year. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gary Price of Love’s Travel Stops talks about the travel center chain’s plan to double the number of academies it operates to train a new supply of diesel mechanics, who remain in short supply throughout the industry. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's Drillling Deep, long time industry analyst John Auers of RBN Energy reviews an extensive study his company recently completed that will be of interest to anybody who is going to be buying diesel in the future. And that's pretty much everyone. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's Drillling Deep, long time industry analyst John Auers of RBN Energy reviews an extensive study his company recently completed that will be of interest to anybody who is going to be buying diesel in the future. And that's pretty much everyone. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's a golfer named Sam Ryder, He did something spectacular last year in front of a lot of screaming fans. There's a logistics company called Ryder. Ryder the company thought they might be able to do some good things with Ryder the golfer. Stephanie Wicky of Ryder the company joins Drilling Deep to talk about it. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's edition of Drilling Deep, University of Tennessee-Knoxville professor Sara Hsu discusses whether after years of hype and anticipation, blockchain is ready to aid the supply chain. Also this week: the EU ban and restrictions on Russian diesel. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Idelic has long been known for its safety programs and its in-cab hardware aimed at improving driver performance. But now it's taken a big step by moving into the insurance side of the business. Michael Gramm of Idelic talks about the company's expanded role. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thomas Scroggins is an employment attorney who has been closely watching the Department of Labor's efforts to craft a new independent contractor rule. With the comments period now closed, Scroggins joins host John Kingston to talk about the next steps forward. Follow the Drilling Deep Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

P. Sean Garney is co-director of Scopelitis Consulting and he gives his outlook on some of the key regulatory trends that will drive trucking and transportation in 2023. Follow Drilling Deep on Apple Podcasts Follow Drilling Deep on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Adams is the CEO of Michigan-based RoadEx, a relatively new firm that provides a large suite of services to independent owner operators. It gives him a perspective on the current state of their market. He is the guest this week on Drilling Deep. Follow Drilling Deep on Apple Podcasts Follow Drilling Deep on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dave Heller is the senior vice president at the Truckload Carriers Association. He takes a look at the nexus between government and trucking in 2022 and what 2023 is likely to bring. Follow Drilling Deep on Apple Podcasts Follow Drilling Deep on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The list of crazy logistics-related markets since the pandemic need space for used trucks, where prices have bounced up and down for months. Chris Visser of JD Power knows as much as anybody about that market and talks about it with host John Kingston. Follow Drilling Deep on Apple Podcasts Follow Drilling Deep on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

LTL carrier A. Duie Pyle just announed an expansion of its northeast network. But it isn't a simple decision to just grow. John Luciani of the company discusses what goes into the process when a trucking company decides to get bigger. Follow Drilling Deep on Apple Podcasts Follow Drilling Deep on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robin Gregg is the CEO of RoadSync, a fintech company focused exclusively on getting merchants that serve truckers paid faster. She talks about her company's latest initiatives. Also: diesel is hanging in there against crude. Follow Drilling Deep on Apple Podcasts Follow Drilling Deep on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lots of companies are trying to fill their ranks with veterans and the skills they bring. Todd Skiles, a senior VP with Ryder and a veteran himself, leads the effort at Ryder. He's our guest this week. Also: the end of the East Coast diesel squeeze? Follow Drilling Deep on Apple Podcasts Follow Drilling Deep on Spotify More FreightWaves Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices