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Drilling Deep: Is the truck parking squeeze easing?

Also on the podcast: Weaker oil demand key to falling price

Is the parking squeeze easing? (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)

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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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.