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Drilling Deep: StayMetrics data digs into driver retention during pandemic

John Kingston
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Tim Hindes is the CEO of StayMetrics, a company that offers data and recommendations to trucking companies on retaining drivers.

But StayMetrics also has shared insightful data with the industry on the level of retention and his firm has a new data series, the Stay Days table. Coming several months into the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s a fascinating look at whether drivers stuck around through the heavy demand period of March, the weakness of April and the strong rebound since. Hindes joins Drilling Deep host John Kingston on this week’s show to talk about it.

Hindes also discusses his views on the issue of race and the trucking sector.

We’ll also take our weekly look at oil and diesel prices, where all the arrows are pointing down right now. And they’re doing so even as freight rates are pointing up, a nice combination for drivers.


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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.