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* 1. Please provide the following information for our files so that we can contact you with the results. Please note that we keep strictly confidential and anonymous all survey responses as well as the identities of respondents.

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* 2. What is your company's total annual transportation budget?

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* 3. Identify the industry(-ies) in which your company participates. Check all that apply.

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* 8. What change in production sourcing do you expect for your company over the next five years?

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* 11. How do you perceive TL capacity currently compared to this time in previous years?

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* 12. What are your expectations for TL capacity over the next 12 months?

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* 13. How do you perceive LTL capacity currently compared to this time in previous years?

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* 14. What are your expectations for LTL capacity over the next 12 months?

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* 18. How do current spot (non-committed, non-contractual) TL rates compare with current market contractual rates?

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* 21. Have service levels improved or declined for the following rail carriers this quarter compared to a year ago? Please rate each railroad from 1-5, with 1 indicating a strong decline, 3 indicating no change, and 5 indicating a strong improvement.

  1 2 3 4 5 N/A
BNSF
Union Pacific
CSX
Norfolk Southern
Canadian National
Canadian Pacific
Kansas City Southern

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* 25. Which railroads have been most aggressive in raising rates? Please rank the following from 1-7, with 1 being most aggressive and 7 being least aggressive in raising rates.

  1 2 3 4 5 6 7
BNSF
Union Pacific
CSX
Norfolk Southern
Canadian National
Canadian Pacific
Kansas City Southern

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* 26. Where are your inventory levels currently at?

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* 27. What are your current inventory levels compared to this time a year ago?

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* 28. Currently, how do your safety stock levels compare to a year ago?

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* 29. Do you expect to ship more or less freight than normal in the next quarter compared to recent years because of inventory build-up?

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* 33. Which of the following changes do you expect to make going forward with respect to your Truckload spend? Please select all that apply

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* 36. Following XPO's acquisition of Con-way, do you expect to shift any of your freight to other LTL carriers?

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* 38. When do you expect the government's ELD (electronic logging device) mandate will begin to impact TL capacity?

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* 41. Thank you for taking the time to fill out this survery. We encourage you to leave any questions, comments, feedback, etc. here.

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