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Drilling Deep: Diving into the truck parking squeeze

Also on the podcast: The market for diesel exhaust fluid

Photo: Desiree Wood, FreightWaves

Excerpt: Host John Kingston looks at the rising price of diesel exhaust fluid in this episode of Drilling Deep.

Desiree Wood is an independent owner-operator who has devoted much of her time educating those who need to know about the crisis in truck parking today. She speaks in public, she joins webcasts and on Drilling Deep this week, she joins host John Kingston to discuss her recent efforts to alert the world about the truck parking squeeze.

Also on the podcast, Kingston talks about a diesel-related market: diesel exhaust fluid. Its price is rising sharply and Kingston reviews the supply chain to show why.

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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.