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Drilling Deep: Canada’s very gentle launch of its ELD mandate

The Great North is taking the slow road on implementation

(Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves & Orbcomm)

On this week’s Drilling Deep podcast, host John Kingston speaks with Scott Stofer of electronic logging device manufacturer Orbcomm about how Canada will be rolling out its ELD mandate in the next few months.

Given the amount of cross-border trade, the ELD rule in that country could have impacts on either side of the border.

Also on Drilling Deep, Kingston discusses why diesel prices, as high as they are, might actually be viewed as weak, at least by one measurement.


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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.