It's a good question. In this economic environment, there's a lot of doom and gloom out there. Moods are bad. You see it in the stock markets and you certainly see it in our business, where people are worried about the immediate future.
I don't have the numbers off the top of my head, but if you look at the forecasts that have been made by the transportation ministers of the NAFTA countries, for example, we are certainly looking at long-term growth, both in terms of economic expansion as well as in replacing the existing drivers and equipment we have on the road today.
So I would have to say that the long-term prospects are good. We know there will always be a trucking industry, and we know the trucking industry is able to do things in the transportation sector that other modes are not able to do. There's a place for the rail industry, absolutely. There's a place for the marine industry. There's a place for air freight. We each have our unique set of skills and the types of commodities we carry.
So I would say that over the longer term, yes, there's optimism. We are looking at new types of equipment, cleaner, more environmentally friendly equipment, with lower emissions in terms of pollution and GHGs, and all of those kinds of things. The industry is making tremendous investments in that modern equipment. They wouldn't be doing that if they didn't have some optimism, if I can use that term, about the future.
When is the future going to arrive? We don't know. From the forecasts—and I'm not an economist, and I'm certainly not an expert—and from what I'm reading and from what I'm hearing from our members, this is going to be a tough year, but in the longer term we should be fine.