The consolidation trend will certainly continue in 2006, and it won't always be the 'usual suspects' involved in the deals. We expect to see logistics service providers and financial institutions make some TMS-related acquisitions this year as they attempt to 'roll up' providers of complementary solutions in order to accelerate scale and growth.

The game is so quick that you can't blame things. We didn't score a run in the ninth. It's not a big deal.

Generally speaking, logistics services is a low-margin business and driving profitable growth is becoming increasingly difficult.

Chief financial officers are becoming better educated about the role and impact of logistics on financial performance, driven in part by the need to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA). Many companies, however, do not have a clear and accurate understanding of their transportation costs. They're often bundled together with other costs and reported at an aggregated level, thus preventing companies from allocating transportation costs to specific products, customers, or business units.

I just have to get used to it. The outfield grass is different than the infield grass. I learned that. I did well for my first time. I had fun out there.

I played in Double-A and it was the same level of baseball. There were players who were 30 and 35 years old. They knew the game and I learned a lot.

If there's to be a call-to-action by Congress, from a technology standpoint, it should be focused on making sure detection technology being used overseas is up to the task. This would make global trade much more secure than blocking a business transaction here in the U.S.

I had to put a lot of heart into it. Seeing (Kelly) also being a 'six' seed go in there and win made me think I could go in there and win. It made me give my all.

I'm not scared of it. I'm good in science. I think I'm going to do OK in it.

Achieving compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, a law aimed at improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate financial statements, is dependent on having access to timely, accurate, and complete information and establishing process controls -- the same success factors required to create more secure and efficient global trade operations.