re: Flatbed Truck Shortage

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Oil field booming is the reasoning they're hearing,

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I see on Jones Web site that they've got lots of loads of mats headed out to west Texas that haven't been picked up.

It's also the combination of decking lumber season and mulch season. Mulch is a bitch. Because it's so low value and bulky. And everyone stocks up on it in April. I think it's something like 100,000 loads of mulch in the month of April alone. And maybe 5000 in a month like Oct or Nov. So it's a brutal surge. And that mulch is made of pine bark. So it's leaving the same areas my lumber is leaving.