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

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* 10. UPS’s labor contract with the Teamsters expires on July 31. Have you already shifted, or do you plan to shift, any volume away from UPS and to FedEx ahead of the July 31 contract deadline?

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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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* 19. 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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* 20. Do you expect to increase or decrease your transportation spend with truck brokers going forward? Please select all that apply

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* 21. Which LTL carrier(s) are you increasing your spend with over the next 6 months, and which are you reducing your spend with over the next 6 months? Please select all that apply.

  Increasing Share Reducing Share N/A
FedEx Freight
Old Dominion
XPO
ArcBest
YRC Worldwide
SAIA
TForce Freight (formerly UPS Freight)
Forward Air
Private Carriers

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* 22. Are you currently using a digital truck brokerage provider (such as Convoy)?

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* 26. If you have diverted freight from the Rails to TL over the past 6 months, what are the main reasons? Please rank the following four reasons from 1 to 4, with 1 being your top reason and 4 representing the least important reason.

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* 27. If you have diverted freight from TL to the Rails over the past 6 months, what are the main reasons?  Please rank the following five reasons from 1 to 5, with 1 being your top reason and 5 representing the least important reason.

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* 29. 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
BNSF
Union Pacific
CSX
Norfolk Southern
Canadian National
Canadian Pacific
Kansas City Southern

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* 30. Where are you currently seeing capacity constraints for the railroads? Please check all that apply.

  BNSF UNP CSX NSC CN CP KSU
Locomotives
People/Crews
Freight Cars
Yards
I have not experienced any capacity constraints with this rail
N/A

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* 32. Which railroad(s) do you expect to raise rates the most over the next 6-12 months? Select all that apply.

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* 33. Given the recent new rail labor contracts with higher wage increases, are you expecting bigger rate increases from the rails going forward?

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* 34. Which railroad carrier(s) are you increasing your volume share with over the next 6 months, and which are you reducing your volume share with over the next 6 months? Please select all that apply.

  Increasing Share Reducing Share N/A
BNSF
Union Pacific
CSX
Norfolk Southern
Canadian National
Canadian Pacific
Kansas City Southern

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* 35. Do you expect to shift business from other rails/trucks to CP-KCS?

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* 36. Where are your inventory levels currently at?

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

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* 38. If you have too much inventory right now, when do you expect inventory levels to reach normalized/targeted levels?

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* 39. Given recent supply chain disruptions, are you planning to operate with higher safety stock inventory levels going forward with less just in-time inventory management?

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

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