Alan S. McKim - Clean Harbors, Inc.
Management
Sure. Well, I think as we look at the various waste streams that we handle into our facilities, we certainly see an increasing in the drum volumes that we're collecting, our bulk business, which is -- these are both our landfills or water treatment plants and our incinerations has been relatively steady. With some of our large chemical companies, customers we had seen some reductions in some of the lean water streams and some of the fuel streams that they had generated, and I think that's probably a reflection of some of the slowdown that maybe they had in their business. As it relates to the project side of our work, I mean certainly a lot of what we do here is based on generator cycles, where the customer has 30 days, 60 days, 90 days to manufacture what they manufacture, generate waste, and then we collect that waste. And we service hundreds of thousands of accounts. And so that in itself is our base business, but the quantity and sometimes the shipment frequency of that changes based on their business. And so, I would say that in some parts of our business, we've seen the services stretch out to longer durations. So we might have a four-week service moving to an eight-week service for example. Certainly, as we have started charging for our stop fees, and that's something that we'll continue to do in Safety-Kleen, customers looking to extend out the number of weeks that go by before we perform the service, just as a means of maximizing how much we do for them when we perform that service. So there's a lot of probably color I could give you, Al, across all parts of our business, but I guess, I would characterize is that our business is relatively steady, but for those events and projects that tend to generate large volumes of waste into our landfills, large remediation projects, that is really where we saw a slowdown in what you would consider our core business. And as we look at the activities, particularly around oil and gas, many of our largest accounts that drove volumes into our Alberta landfill, our North Dakota landfill, our California landfill, we saw a significant tail-off in those volumes and those, to some extent, were base volumes for us before, but as those rigs laid down and as those activities ceased, we saw a real decline in volumes and I think many of our competitors probably will speak to that as well. Overall, though, I would say that our activity levels, our drum volumes, our Field Service business, our quote level, our – if we look at our pipeline, I would say that there is a lot of strength throughout many parts of our business, say, the Oil and Gas Field Services and Lodging business.