Drilling Deep

Parts of the manufacturing world were laggards in the strong freight market of 2020. But on this week's Drilling Deep podcast, Jason Miller of Michigan State University discusses his bullish outlook for manufacturing in 2021 and the impact it will have on the nation's fleets. Also on Drilling...

Keeping the vaccine supply chain cold is of paramount importance, and the head of the association of companies involved in that effort joins FreightWaves on the Drilling Deep podcast. Host John Kingston and FreightWaves Senior Editor Eric Kulisch sit down with Nicola Caristo, the airline partner...

Amit Mehrotra, the chief transportation analyst at Deutsche Bank, was on numerous analyst calls during the recently completed earnings season. He heard CEOs repeatedly report the same scenario: April was terrible, May was better, and the improvement continued into June and July. But now Mehrotra...

The last day to apply for funding under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is Saturday, August 8. But that's when things will get busy for people like Michael Rofman.  He's a partner and leader of the New Jersey Transportation & Logistics practice at the national accounting firm of Mazars...

With the release of the identities of the biggest recipients of money under the Paycheck Protection Program, reviewing all the names of those who got money and figuring out how this will impact the industry's operations is now the hot topic of discussion in trucking. On this week's Drilling Deep...

The less-than-truckload (LTL) sector of the trucking sector is generally more stable than the truckload carriers it shares the road with. But that doesn't mean it has faced the pandemic without major upheaval. On this week's Drilling Deep podcast, host John Kingston speaks with Brian Thompson, the...

To watch the stock of Nikola Corporation (NASDAQ: NKLA), the company that has raised millions to produce a hydrogen-produced truck, you'd think that the day of the diesel engine was going to end soon.  But that isn't the case. Allen Schaeffer, the executive director of the Diesel Technology Forum...

Steve Burks was a truck driver in an earlier professional capacity. He also earned  his Bachelor's degree, his Master's degree and then his PhD. He's a professor of economics at the University of Minnesota-Morris where he continues to research truck drivers and the markets where they ply their...

Tolls on bridges, tunnels and roads are plummeting in the wake of the pandemic. Unlike the broader system of highways whose upkeep is paid for by the rapidly depleting Highway Trust Fund, infrastructure funded by tolls generally has a steady stream of income to keep it in working condition. But...