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| In fact, some of our service metrics have actually improved as we've gone through this year |
| We're very proud |
| We were pleased that our on-time performance was 99% during the quarter while our cargo claims ratio was 0.1% |
| That environment was just all demand-driven, but demand was incredibly strong |
| And I think we've seen some really strong performance in the past when we get into those types of strong demand environment |
| But we'll continue with our same approach like we always have, and it's produced good things for us from a financial results standpoint, but an improvement in our balance sheet to support the ongoing investments that we believe we need to continue to make |
| It did happen in the manner that we thought that it would, but we were well positioned to respond and our existing workforce has been able to do so |
| We believe the consistency and quality of our service over many years has validated by Mastio has differentiated Old Dominion in the marketplace and supported our ability to win market share over the long-term |
| Our superior service also continues to support our ongoing yield management initiatives |
| And we feel good about where we are with all elements of capacity and our ability to respond to growth when it comes to us, and it will |
| And if we can have that positive delta there, then that's a good setup even if underlying demand is not significantly changing |
| Because of these investments, we are well positioned to respond to the positive inflection in volumes during the quarter |
| There is tremendous opportunity there from a volume standpoint |
| And I believe we've been able to capture more market share for the – when you look at the growth in the industry than anyone else as well |
| The execution by our team and consistency in our long-term financial results gives us a continued confidence in our strategic plan |
| We remain committed to this plan and believe we are better positioned than any other carrier in our industry to win market share over the long-term |
| As we continue to deliver our unmatched value proposition to our customers over the long-term, we are confident that we can create further profitable growth and increase shareholder value |
| Then yes, that's the environment where in the past, we've been able to produce some operating ratio improvement |
| Some encouraging trends developed during the quarter as our LTL shipments per day averaged 49,670 after averaging 47,077 per day for the first six months of the year |
| But on a total cost basis, we're still better because of our claims ratio and our on-time performance |
| On the people side, obviously, we've been able to step up and meet the incremental volumes |
| While our shipment levels for the month have been stronger than our normal sequential trend, we believe a portion of this outperformance is attributable to a cybersecurity incident disclosed by a competitor |
| So we're pleased with where our service quality is, the performance of our team, the improving efficiencies that we're seeing |
| While the decreasing revenue had a deleveraging effect on our cost categories that are more fixed in nature, we were pleased with the increase in operating efficiencies that helped drive the improvement in our direct cost |
| We believe that we've got the opportunity to win some of the share that we continue to believe will be turning around over the next six months to a year given some of the service issues that I referenced earlier, we're hearing about every day |
| Logistic professionals ranked OD as number one for 25 of the 28 individual attributes in the most recent survey, which was our best performance ever and demonstrates our unwavering commitment to excellence and customer satisfaction |
| And I think that, that coordination and symmetry that we have there, is evident when you look at our long-term success and our financial results |
| And I've been pleased with the cost performance on the direct cost side |
| We did improve density within our operations during the quarter and that was a big factor in driving the improvement in our direct operating costs, at least the improvement that we saw both sequentially and on a year-over-year basis |
| But we leverage that inflection in the volumes and we always say long-term improvement in the operating ratio was driven by two key factors; density and yield and both generally support – or require the support of a macro economic environment is positive, but we had good leverage there that drove some nice operating efficiencies within our pickup delivery operations on the dock as well had improvement |
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| Old Dominion's third quarter financial results reflect continued softness in the domestic economy |
| And to be able to make the investments that we're doing, like I said earlier, capacity may not have been at the top of mind over the last year because of the overall weakness in underlying demand |
| Typically, the fourth quarter operating ratio is 200 basis points to 250 basis points worse than the third quarter |
| They don't have the people part of the capacity equation solved and maybe took on too much freight and are starting to have negative implications from their overall service products |
| That was an area of weakness, in particular in the first quarter, where a few carriers, we're putting some lower transaction type pricing in place |
| The combination of this decrease in revenue and slight deterioration in our operating ratio contributed to the 8.0% decrease in earnings per diluted share to $3.09 for the quarter |
| Our weight per shipment has trended down and really it went down, I guess, in August to about 1,485 pounds, and that was some of that incremental freight that we saw that pickup of about 3,000 shipments per day |
| And obviously, we're disappointed when it didn't, but we just continue to try to manage through |
| I think for September, you said tonnage was about one point below average seasonality on a sequential basis |
| Given the 70s and change OR you saw in the current quarter and what is admittedly still a pretty weak freight environment |
| As a result, our shipment levels decreased on a year-over-year basis for the fifth straight quarter |
| Old Dominion's revenue decreased 5.5% in the third quarter of 2023 due to a 6.9% decrease in LTL tons per day that was partially offset by a 3.1% increase in LTL revenue per hundredweight |
| And when you look at our operating ratio and the change that we have in the third quarter, that was a bit of a headwind, 110 basis points headwind on the depreciation side and some of the CapEx was basically related to what's happened over the last couple of years with the OEM challenges that we've had, shortages of parts that have required us to carry maybe a little bit more equipment on the books than we would sort of look at from an – if we were optimizing the fleet standpoint |
| So first question, you just did like a 70 and change OR in a broad freight environment that's pretty weak, to say the least |
| We've had some cost pressure this year, and that's evident in our numbers |
| It looks like yourselves and maybe a lot of the big LTLs still have a fair bit of excess capacity in their network even after absorbing the yellow volumes |
| We've not lost accounts or lost lanes just in many cases, that the demand environment has been weaker |
| So those are things that you always have that are challenges that you manage through |
| So it's always a challenge to try to walk that tightrope in terms of managing the elements of capacity |
| But I think our operating ratio has performed about where we thought it would, given the decrease in volumes |
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