Drilling Deep: Trucking companies look to stay profitable in unprecedented times

· Friday, March 27, 2020

On this week’s Drilling Deep, host John Kingston talks with Chris Henry of FreightWaves. Chris is the head of the TCA Profitability Program.

It’s a program designed to both benchmark best practices as well as share them among its members, helping trucking companies all over the country stay in the black. With such an uncertain market ahead, this guidance is particularly important.

Chris talks about what he’s seeing with the dozens of companies he’s in contact with every week and how they should get through the era of COVID-19.

Also on Drilling Deep, John shares his views on how the collapse in oil prices is going to be a disaster for that portion of the trucking world that services the U.S. oil patch.

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.