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me shortly will be Brittany Chisinau. As we break down the broker liability case and what that means for transportation, but we have an action-packed show full of topics to discuss today. You know, and it's, you know, most people don't know this, but June is actually the strongest shipping month of the year due to the combination of all the different commodities that are being shipped in the middle of the year.

There's not a lot of seasonal issue there. And you have all this overlap. You have industrial, you have produce, you have beverages, you have summer seasonal apparel, you have back to school that's getting ahead of things. You have all sorts of commodity shipping in the middle of the year that sometimes seasonally depress around the corner months. So like January, retail freight tends to drop off a good bit in January, whereas it's actually fairly active at the end of the year.

And that's some of the stuff that we're dealing with in the market, just as we're getting additional reasons to see that capacity is not going to be as plentiful as humanly possible. And Thomas, you're out at a conference, you're joining us live, coming in hot from the road.

One of the biggest questions I've been getting over the last several months, and I think I don't know that this is that shocking, but is how do I get more capacity? And it's like, we went through three years where capacity was so available. How much of this are you dealing with?

Oh, man. Well, at an event right now in Nashville, Motive, they're an ELD telematics visibility provider. One of the big words about that is gross negligence.

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