Timothy R. Wallace - Trinity Industries, Inc.
Management
Well, in the acquisition area, you think larger acquisitions that are out there. And we did a large acquisition in relative size to us back – three years ago, and we have also been looking at other larger opportunities that are out there. And then, of course, as I said, we always look at the opportunity of returning cash to shareholders. In the last five years, we returned $630 million back to our shareholders and we always have ongoing dialogs in that particular area as well. When you're in a down cycle, a company can quickly – and you have the order of magnitude of litigation that we had, a company could quickly kind of shift into a crisis mode. And, fortunately, with the balance sheet that we had, we really didn't switch into a crisis mode, we stayed in an opportunistic mode. At the same time, we've been making quite a number of investments in our business with the infrastructure with the idea that when the business volume improves that we're going to be leaner and we will be more streamlined to be able to pursue these activities. An example of that is, is that our computer systems that store the records of the orders and our inventory and our enterprise-wide manufacturing systems, we're in the process of a multiyear upgrade of those systems that we have. And during downtimes, that's a very appropriate time to do that. It's kind of like a business that has an off season, but then gets into a maintenance mode. So we have our people focused on a large number of areas, and we've been able to maintain strategic thoughts and a lot of strategic discussion during the down cycle, and this is very unusual for my experience here with the company. Over the 42 years, we've never had a downturn where our balance sheet was as strong as it is. And in many eyes, I guess, people are looking at it and thinking that we overreacted, but this is a very high quality problem to have. And when you have the quality of the people and the infrastructure that we have, I feel confident that given a period of time, we will work through this positive situation that we have.