Welcome to Industry Focus, the show that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

Today we're talking energy and industrial.

It is Thursday the 25th of January and we're going to be discussing the freight transportation industry.

I'm your host Sarah Priestley and joining me in the studio is a very special guest,

Seth Clevenger from transport topics. So Seth, thank you so much for joining me today.

Well absolutely, it's great to be here and I appreciate the chance to be

on. You brave the cold to go. Yeah you know maybe a block and a half outside but

it wasn't too bad. So transport topics is the go-to place for news in the

front transportation industry you guys cover everything from regular Transport Topics is the go to place for news in the front

transportation industry. You guys cover everything from

regulation to new tech to major industry events but what's your

particular area of kind of expertise at interest?

Sure so my particular focus has to be on the technology side of

trucking. So anything from electronic logging devices to automated driving

technology, kind of how technology is bringing the industry forward is where I spend most of my time but I

dabble in it all. Well technology I'm sure I was keeping you busy on its own at

the minute. It is absolutely. So there's a few things I want to talk to you about

today because though the freight transportation

industry may not be seen as the sexiest topic by a lot of people.

Oh, I disagree.

It has been in the news repeatedly in the past year due to self-driving tech, as I'm sure you're very familiar with, the driver shortage and the ELD mandate, the electronic login device.

So the first thing I wanted to ask you about is this new regulation, which is kind of the biggest thing that's happened in the trucking industry in the last 50 years or so.

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