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| We continue to be pleased and encouraged by the relative strength of our drop trailer demand as customers appreciate the value and flexibility it provides for their operations |
| We remain encouraged by the market's growing demand for our 360box service and will remain committed to our investments to drive long-term growth in this area |
| That was clearly a source of resiliency and strength in the quarter despite the freight market weakness we've seen |
| For example, we see expected resiliency in certain areas of the business like DCS, areas with meaningful and unique growth opportunities to capitalize on in our Intermodal business, areas with notable improvement in performance in Final Mile, and areas of investment with a large addressable market and growing demand in our brokerage and power-only 360box offering in Highway Services |
| So, we feel good about Dedicated |
| At this point, we really need more volume to unlock cost takeout from our system and improve the utilization of both our container fleet as well as our drayage fleet and then just the employee base supporting our business, all of which would give us an improvement in our margin profile |
| Price will always improve our margin faster than volume will |
| In closing, I remain confident in this leadership team |
| I know it feels a little off timing right now, but I -- even as of this morning, I continue to be super confident in the opportunity and our ability to execute on what is in front of us |
| However, in today's environment, we're seeing significant improvements, and we're seeing significant commitments, including investments by our rail providers, to help us in this area |
| Our average age of our equipment continues to improve, which will help on fuel efficiency, safety and reducing maintenance-related expenses |
| The reality is we want to develop a better service product and better service experience for our customers with more predictability, and we're working every day today with our rail providers in order to achieve that |
| And we believe that when that happens, we're going to be very well positioned and poised to be able to scale for the growth that our customers bring our way |
| We continue to have meaningful and unique growth opportunities to capitalize on that ahead, and that's how we're going to focus moving into the second half of the year |
| And we do think our Intermodal business is outperforming the industry |
| We are encouraged with growth opportunities that we do see continuing in both our brokerage and power-only 360box offerings and Highway Services, and we're going to leverage our technology to continue to deliver on behalf of our customers |
| We remain committed to putting the company in a better position to accelerate growth and market share gains for the eventual inflection in market dynamics |
| In closing, by remaining committed to our long-term investments in our people, technology, and capacity, which supports our ability to deliver exceptional value for our customers, I am confident in our ability to deliver long-term sustainable returns for our shareholders |
| But I also might make notice of Final Mile, who also continued improvement in profitability as they continue to work with customers and making sure we were paid appropriately for the hard work that we do and the value we create for them |
| I want to make sure that I call out the strength and resiliency across our complementary business model, in particular, I believe Brad said Dedicated showed strong results and had a record in the quarter for operating income |
| And when you think about our ability to serve our customers in 2021 and then 2022, we were able to leverage our technology investments to really step up, have a step function change from a growth perspective and delivering more value for our customers |
| The level of engagement and interaction in the platform informs us about the market and provides a solid foundation to drive productivity in our operations across the organization and eliminate waste in the overall supply chain |
| And that wasn't the case necessarily in the first quarter, but we really experienced a lot of excellent service during the second quarter and we've got a let that play out and work with our customers so that they can see the quality of service and continue to give us an opportunity to grow as the year goes on |
| And I think that as the quarter went on, we really saw enormous improvement in our service performance from our well providers |
| I am pleased with the performance of our Dedicated business in the quarter and in particular with the resiliency of our model |
| Demand for our professional outsourced private fleet solutions has moderated some, but remains strong as evidenced by our pipeline and our ability to sell new deals |
| As if you look at two of the tighter years, if you will, 2018, and then again coming into COVID, our technology further enhanced our ability to serve our customers |
| It's a great analogy, and I'm very, very pleased with the work so far |
| We feel very good about our pipeline |
| We continue to see this enormous opportunity to grow our business with value to our customers |
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| We experienced some pressure on margins in the quarter, largely related to the lack of volume and our inability to leverage our cost structure that is in the process of being built to handle significantly more volume |
| Top-line revenue for the segment was down 43%, driven by volume down 26% and revenue per load down 24% |
| On a consolidated GAAP basis, revenue for the quarter declined 18% year-over-year, operating income declined 23%, and diluted earnings per share decreased 25% |
| Overall freight demand was muted versus the prior year and also below normal seasonal patterns as compared to the first quarter |
| Those wages are certainly going to stay elevated and yet the market has challenged us with pricing and prices are negative |
| Volumes in the quarter declined 7% year-over-year, and by month were down 9% in April, down 8% in May, and down 4% in June |
| Demand for Intermodal capacity remained tempered, driven primarily by lower overall activity because of the inventory destocking cycle and the resulting declines in import activity |
| That will continue to be our focus as we move forward, and we know that the last, I'm going to call it, five years of rail service has been difficult |
| We saw the downward pressure on volumes and we saw that replay itself, if you will, in Q2 |
| As we have discussed for several quarters now, demand for big and bulky products, including appliances, furniture, and exercise equipment, being delivered into the home is seeing some pressure |
| We see orders on new tractors down, notwithstanding some carryover for replacements at the peak of COVID |
| I would just say what we're seeing is there's a lot of pressure on our customers |
| As stated on the last two earnings calls that we are in a freight recession |
| What we're seeing on our existing fleets, we're just seeing cost pressure internally for the most part |
| It still feels like maybe there's still some downside risk to price |
| And it's difficult to see in the last 90 days, but there's a lot of things that are really difficult to see in the last 90 days |
| Starting with ICS, similar to some of the prior comments, overall demand in truckload brokerage was muted versus the prior-year period and what would be expected from a seasonal perspective coming out of Q1 |
| The business is now -- the brokerage business is back to losing money |
| With regards to the market environment, but specifically to bid season wrapping up here in the near term, overall pricing for domestic Intermodal service fell within the range of our expectations as we entered the year, but our overall portfolio trended towards the lower end of those expectations as the bid season progressed |
| As those sales declined, they were full flushed with inventory, and it took them some time to burn through that |
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