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George Osmond married his wife, Olive, on Dec. . intermingling esteeming pounded.severs Vaudois three card The following factors, among others, could
cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking
statements: elevated experience in the frequency and severity of claims
relating to accident, cargo, workers' compensation, health, and other
claims, increased insurance premiums, fluctuations in claims expenses that
result from high self-insured retention amounts and differences between
estimates used in establishing and adjusting claims reserves and actual
results over time, adverse changes in claims experience and loss
development factors, or additional changes in management's estimates of
liability based upon such experience and development factors that causes
our expectations of insurance and claims expense to be inaccurate or
otherwise impacts our results; changes in the market condition for used
revenue equipment and terminal facilities that impact our capital
expenditures and our ability to dispose of revenue equipment and terminals
on the schedule and for the prices we expect; increases in the prices paid
for new revenue equipment and changes in the resale value of our used
equipment that impact our capital expenditures or our results generally;
our ability to renew Dedicated service offering contracts on the terms and
schedule we expect; our ability to successfully integrate Star
Transportation into our consolidated group; our ability to successfully
manage the downsizing of a portion of our operations at Covenant Transport;
our ability to improve the performance of our Regional service offering and
to cause the performance of SRT and Star to return to historical levels;
our ability to integrate the former operations of our Covenant Refrigerated
service offering into our SRT and Expedited Long-Haul operations; our
success in restructuring the company's operations around the identified
service offerings; excess tractor or trailer capacity in the trucking
industry; decreased demand for our services or loss of one or more of our
major customers; surplus inventories; recessionary economic cycles and
downturns in customers' business cycles; strikes, work slow downs, or work
stoppages at the Company, customers, ports, or other shipping related
facilities; increases or rapid fluctuations in fuel prices, as well as
fluctuations in hedging activities and surcharge collection; the volume and
terms of diesel purchase commitments; interest rates, fuel taxes, tolls,
and license and registration fees; increases in compensation for and
difficulty in attracting and retaining qualified drivers and independent
contractors; seasonal factors such as harsh weather conditions that
increase operating costs; competition from trucking, rail, and intermodal
competitors; regulatory requirements that increase costs or decrease
efficiency, including revised hours-of-service requirements for drivers;
the ability to successfully execute the Company's initiative of improving
the profitability of single- driver freight movements; the ability to
control increases in operating costs; and the ability to identify
acceptable acquisition candidates, consummate acquisitions, and integrate
acquired operations.