David A. Jackson - Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings, Inc.
Management
Yeah. Well, if you look, the business saw a good revenue per mile improvement, but not 100% of that dropped to the bottom line, clearly. And so, a meaningful portion of that was drivers. When we talk about drivers, it's not just driver pay. It's everything associated with recruiting and sourcing a driver. It includes a greater effort on the recruiting side, the advertising expense goes up as more and more people are all working to try and find the same group. So, driver related is by far the largest portion of that. But in addition to that, there you were seeing inflation in the equipment. We're seeing inflation in even the non-driver side, clearly in the mechanics, in the shop, technical expertise side we see it as well, and the used equipment market continues to be soft, which you feel that on the gain (00:35:08) on sale. Fuel, depending on the month, but more often than not has been a headwind as of late. And now, more recently now, as we move into the second quarter, it's consistently been a headwind. So, those are our inflationary factors. You saw that we overcame some of those in order to be able to drop the improvement like we saw on the Knight side, in particular. We saw the 790 basis point improvement on the operating ratio on the asset-based Truckload business. So, this is where – this is what we feel like we get paid to do is to understand our business, understand the kind of rate increases that are needed in order to at least keep up with the inflationary costs we have and ultimately, to provide a return that allows us to exceed weighted average cost of capital and keep reinvesting in the fleet. So, Knight's approaching that level, but still isn't dropping as much to the bottom line on a rate per mile basis as historically it has done. On the Swift side, we have a lot more room to improve as I look and compare how much rate was able to drop to the bottom line at Swift and at Knight, and compare that to others in our industry that have released thus far. I see that Knight and Swift have both done better than most, if not led the charge in terms of dropping to the bottom line. So, when we look at second quarter, third quarter, just as we didn't issue earnings guidance today and we're not ready and we haven't decided yet when we will, if we will be ready to issue earnings guidance again, those are factors that we keep private, that we keep in our own internal projections and we wouldn't quite be ready to share. But we do try, just like I've done and outlined where some of the areas are and, hopefully, that'll help you to make your best estimates going forward.