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Drilling Deep: Trucking capacity, the pandemic and holiday season

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On this week’s Drilling Deep podcast, Andrew Cox of FreightWaves talks to host John Kingston about how strong the peak season is going to be given two big factors: the pandemic and what that has done to spending patterns and the growing tightness in driver capacity.

Kingston will also talk about a possible turn in the diesel market. That shift in economics may occur because of things that data is showing that haven’t happened in at least 30 years in the U.S.

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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.