Thank you for that.
Mr. Sands, I'd like to turn to you. Your members, of course, have a lot of daily interactions with the trucking industry, and we certainly have seen, especially in the last year, that there was a significant increase in vacant positions.
In your members' conversations with truckers, is there anything you can relate to the committee about the kinds of working conditions they're operating under? Have they provided any feedback about what their industry needs? Is there some kind of national training strategy?
How could the federal government be most effective in trying to encourage more people to get involved in the trucking industry so that sectors like yours are not having to pay the consequences?