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Ryder System Inc (R 0.67%)
Q2 2019 Earnings Call
Jul 30, 2019, 11:00 a.m. ET

Contents:

  • Prepared Remarks
  • Questions and Answers
  • Call Participants

Prepared Remarks:

Operator

(Starts Abruptly) 2019 Earnings Release Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]

I would now like to introduce Mr. Bob Brunn, Vice President, Investor Relations, Corporate Strategy and Product Strategy for Ryder. Mr. Brunn, you may now begin, sir.

Robert S. Brunn -- Vice President of Investor Relations, Corporate Strategy & Product Strategy

Thanks very much. Good morning, and welcome to Ryder's second quarter 2019 earnings conference call.

I'd like to remind you that during this presentation, you'll hear some forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on management's current expectations and are subject to uncertainty and changes in circumstances. Actual results may differ materially from these expectations due to changes in economic, business, competitive, market, political and regulatory factors. More detailed information about these factors is contained in this morning's earnings release and in Ryder's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

This conference call also includes certain non-GAAP financial measures. You'll find reconciliations of each non-GAAP measure to the nearest GAAP measure in the written presentation accompanying this call, which is available on our website in investors.ryder.com.

Presenting on today's call are Robert Sanchez, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and Scott Parker, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Additionally, Dennis Cooke, President of Global Fleet Management Solutions; John Diez, President of Dedicated Transportation Solutions; and Steve Sensing, President of Global Supply Chain Solutions, are on the call today and available for questions following the presentation.

At this time, I'll turn the call over to Robert.

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Good Morning, everyone and thanks for joining us. This morning, we'll recap our second quarter 2019 results, discuss the current outlook for our business and highlight progress on some of our strategic initiatives, then we'll open the call for questions. With that, let's turn to an overview of our second quarter results.

Comparable earnings per share from continuing operations were $1.40 for the second quarter of 2019, down 4% from the prior year, primarily reflecting lower used vehicle results, partially offset by improved operating performance. Comparable results were slightly above the midpoint of our forecast range of $1.34 to $1.44, reflecting better-than-expected operating performance in our contractual businesses, largely offset by lower than expected demand conditions in used vehicle sales and rental that began late in the quarter.

Comparable pre-tax earnings were down 4%, reflecting depreciation headwinds of $8 million and higher valuation adjustments of $10 million related to lower used vehicle pricing. Sales activity remained solid and we delivered strong revenue growth in all segments, driven by secular outsourcing trends, as well as our sales and marketing initiatives. Operating revenue, which excludes fuel and subcontracted transportation, increased by 11% to a record $1.8 billion for the second quarter.

Page 5 includes additional financial information for the second quarter. Comparable EBITDA was $579 million, up 14% from the prior year, reflecting the earnings contribution from our growing portfolio of contractual lease, dedicated and supply chain business.

The average number of diluted shares outstanding for the quarter was 52.5 million, down slightly from the prior year. We began repurchasing shares under a two-year 1.5 million share anti-dilutive repurchase program in February of 2018. During the quarter, we brought approximately 119,000 shares at an average price of $59.20.

Excluding pension costs and other items, the comparable tax rate was 26.9% for the second quarter of 2019, down slightly from the prior year's rate. The return on capital spread was 20 basis points, down from 40 basis points spread in the prior year, primarily reflecting lower used vehicle sales results. Return on equity was approximately 13%.

I'll now turn to Page 6 and discuss key trends that we saw in each business segment. Fleet Management Solutions operating revenue, which excludes fuel, increased 9% organically from the prior year, driven by growth in all product lines. ChoiceLease revenue increased 9% primarily due to fleet growth and to a lesser extent higher rates on replacement vehicles. The lease fleet increased by 3,800 vehicles during the quarter. Growth in the lease fleet this quarter benefited from earlier than anticipated vehicle deliveries from the OEMs.

We continue to effectively penetrate the non-outsourced market with approximately 40% of year-to-date fleet growth coming from customers new to outsourcing. We also continue to see growth from customers expanding their fleet sizes. We remain on track to achieve organic lease fleet growth this year of at least 11,000 vehicles, which would be a new record for the Company.

SelectCare revenue increased 9%, reflecting higher ancillary maintenance activity. The average SelectCare full-service and preventive fleet grew by nearly 600 vehicles from the prior year. Commercial rental revenue was up 9%, driven by higher demand and pricing. Global rental demand on power units was up 8% and pricing was up 2%. Rental utilization was 75.3%, down from 79.4% in the prior year, primarily reflecting lower than expected tractor demand on a 10% larger average fleet and very strong prior-year comparisons.

Our strategy to capture higher e-commerce driven demand for medium-duty trucks remains on track. Late in the second quarter, however, we saw softer demand for heavy-duty tractors, which impacted utilization for the quarter against very strong prior-year comparisons. Used vehicle results for the quarter were down year-over-year. I'll discuss those results separately in a minute.

Overall, FMS earnings decreased, reflecting lower used vehicle results, including higher depreciation of $8 million from residual value changes and higher valuation adjustments of $10 million. Results were also negatively impacted by higher overheads, including higher than normal levels of bad debt and to a lesser extent, the impact from the adoption of the new lease accounting standards.

Results benefited from lease growth and benefits from our maintenance cost initiative. Earnings before tax in FMS decreased 25%. FMS earnings as a percent of operating revenue were 4.9%, down 220 basis points from the prior year, primarily reflecting lower used vehicle sales results.

Page 7 summarizes key results for used vehicle sales. Used vehicle results for the quarter were down, as increased pricing and volume were more than offset by higher valuation adjustments on larger inventory. We sold 5,100 used vehicles during the quarter, up 9% versus the prior year, and up 3% sequentially. Used vehicle inventory totaled 8,300 vehicles at quarter end, which is within our target range of 7,000 vehicles to 9,000 vehicles. Inventory increased by 2,700 vehicles compared to the prior year and increased 700 vehicles sequentially, reflecting a greater number of units coming off lease this year as expected.

Proceeds per vehicle sold were up 19% for tractors, and down 1% for trucks compared to a year ago. Year-over-year comparisons for tractors benefited from market pricing improvements that began in the third quarter of 2018. Tractor pricing this quarter was in line with pricing levels we realized in the fourth quarter of last year. Sequentially, tractor pricing was down 2% from the first quarter, reflecting weaker demand conditions late in the quarter, while truck pricing was up 3%.

I'll turn now to Supply Chain Solutions on Page 8. Total revenue grew 7% and operating revenue grew 12%, driven by new business, higher pricing and increased volumes. Supply Chain earnings before tax were up 24%, driven by revenue growth and improved operating performance. Segment earnings before tax as a percent of operating revenue were 9.5% for the quarter, up 90 basis points from the prior year.

On Page 9, our Dedicated business achieved strong revenue growth, with total revenue up 10% and operating revenue up 16%. Revenue growth was driven by new business and expansion with existing customers. Favorable outsourcing trends, including a very challenging driver market, contributed to strong DTS sales results again this quarter. We also continue to see lease customers expanding their relationship with Ryder by adding outsourced driver services and moving into dedicated solutions. This continues to be a significant ongoing growth opportunity for the Dedicated business.

DTS Earnings Increased due to revenue growth and improved operating performance. Segment earnings before tax as a percent of operating revenue were 10.9% this quarter, up 230 basis points from the prior year.

At this point, I'll turn the call over to our CFO, Scott Parker, he cover several items starting with capital spending.

Scott Parker -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Thanks, Robert. Turning to Page 10, year-to-date gross capital expenditures totaled approximately $2.2 billion, up around $750 million from the prior year. This increase reflects higher planned investments to grow and refresh the contractual lease fleet.

Proceeds of $256 million were up $54 million, primarily due to $43 million from the sale of a property. Net capital expenditures increased by nearly $700 million to just under $2 billion, reflecting contractual lease growth.

Turning to the next page, we generated cash from operating activities of over $1 billion year-to-date, up approximately $180 million, or 21%. The increase was driven primarily by higher cash-based earnings and lower working capital needs. We generated about $1.3 billion of total cash, up approximately $230 million from the prior year, reflecting higher operating cash and proceeds from a property sale.

Cash payments for capital expenditures increased by $790 million to just over $2.2 billion. Company's free cash flow was negative $909 million year-to-date, down from the prior year of negative $354 million, primarily reflecting increased capital spending to grow the lease fleet and a normalized level of lease and rental replacement spending. Our full-year forecast for free cash flow remains unchanged at negative $1.1 billion, reflecting the significant growth capital spending.

Debt to equity at the end of the second quarter increased to 294% from 262% at the end of 2018, and primarily reflects investment in our fleet growth. Our balance sheet leverage is toward the top end of our range of 250% to 300%. Our leverage is expected to decline in the second half and our year-end forecast remains around 285%.

At this point, I'll hand it back over to Robert to cover our current outlook.

Robert S. Brunn -- Vice President of Investor Relations, Corporate Strategy & Product Strategy

Thanks, Scott. Overall, we continue to see a healthy demand environment across our contractual lease, dedicated and supply chain businesses despite a softer freight environment and we're encouraged by the ongoing strength in our contractual sales activity. We're also pleased with the progress on longer term strategic initiatives to drive higher revenue and earnings over time as we launch new products in markets with strong growth potential.

We expect continued strong operating performance in our Supply Chain and Dedicated businesses, resulting in pre-tax margins within their long-term target range. In DTS, we expect revenue growth rate comparisons to remain favorable, although below first half 2019 levels. We are also encouraged by a robust sales pipeline in Dedicated that's only slightly below last year's record levels.

In Supply Chain Solutions, we expect year-over-year revenue comparisons to turn negative for the second half of the year, primarily due to previously announced lost business, but expect pre-tax margins to remain within the target range. In Commercial Rental, our strategy to capture medium-duty truck demand driven by e-commerce growth is on track. Heavy duty tractor rental demand is somewhat softer than our prior forecast due primarily to lower activity with for-hire carriers. However, we expect to largely mitigate this impact by leveraging our asset management capabilities and taking other cost actions.

During the second half of the year, we expect to fill more lease contracts with used rather than new equipment, which should result in lower than originally forecast lease CapEx in the latter part of the year. This should be offset by vehicles received earlier than anticipated from the OEMs at the beginning of the year, resulting in full year CapEx being around the original forecast.

In used vehicle sales, we saw lower tractor demand beginning in June and now expect tractor pricing to be below our previous forecast, primarily due to more vehicles being sold through the wholesale channel as we manage inventory levels. In light of these factors, we are revising our full year comparable EPS forecast to $5.50 to $5.80 versus our prior range of $6.05 to $6.35, primarily to reflect lower used vehicle sales results.

Our third quarter comparable EPS forecast is $1.45 to $1.60 compared to $1.67 in the prior year. Third quarter comparisons include a negative $0.09 to negative $0.14 year-over-year impact from lease accounting, reflecting an estimated negative $0.05 to negative $0.10 impact in the third quarter of 2019 compared to a positive $0.04 benefit in the prior year. The negative impact on lease accounting in 2019 reflects an expected decline in lease fleet age.

The full year 2019 impact from lease accounting is now expected to reduce earnings per share by approximately $0.05 to $0.10 as compared to the prior accounting method.

Turning to Slide 15, I'd like to provide you with a brief update on the progress we're making on some of our strategic initiatives. First, we continue to focus on driving profitable contractual growth. We remain on track to meet or exceed our record lease fleet growth forecast of 11,000 vehicles this year. As previously discussed, beginning in 2018, we made changes to our residual value assumptions to improve returns on new vehicles being leased and continue to evaluate additional steps to improve lease returns.

Additionally, we continue to see strong contractual sales activity in Dedicated and Supply Chain, and expect 2019 to be the third highest year for total Company sales of contractual lease, Dedicated and Supply chain deals. These contracts provide more stable revenue and earning streams over multi-year period, delivering returns on new capital invested.

We're also making strategic investments in new products to provide new avenues for long-term revenue and earnings growth. Among these initiatives is our new e-commerce fulfillment solution that provides order fulfillment services for brands that want to sell directly to consumers.

Our roll out is on track with three fully operational facilities strategically located throughout the US. They are able to reach 95% of the US and Canada with two-day delivery.

We expanded COOP by Ryder, the first commercial vehicle sharing platform of its kind into the Florida market and are encouraged by the strong customer interest we continue to see with this platform.

Finally, we're on track to achieve the full-year cost savings expected from our multi-year maintenance cost reduction initiative and expect additional opportunities to lower costs and drive efficiencies in the future.

Slide 16 provides our expectations for 2019 results as compared to the three-year financial targets we laid out in early 2018. FMS and DTS are expected to beat their operating revenue growth targets, reflecting secular trends and other initiatives. SCS is expected to come in below their revenue target this year, primarily due to previously announced lost business. As we look ahead, we expect to lap this issue beginning in the second half of 2020 and anticipate returning to more normalized growth rates at that time.

Our three -year CAGR for operating revenue growth is expected to be 11% this year. Given our pipeline of new business, we remain confident in our ability to meet or beat our long-term Supply Chain target of 7% to 8% revenue growth over time. FMS EBT is expected to remain below the target, primarily due to the ongoing impacts from used vehicle sales.

Supply Chain EBT percent is currently within the segment's 8% to 9% target range and is expected to remain in the target range over the balance of the year, reflecting the benefits from operational improvements in previously under performing accounts. We are raising our 2019 forecast for Dedicated's EBT percent from yellow to green status. We've made operational improvements and addressed the challenging prior year start-up that have improved our return outlook for this business.

Our return on capital spread is now expected to breakeven this year due to our revised used vehicle outlook. Finally, we expect leverage to remain within our target range of 250% to 300%.

That concludes our prepared remarks this morning. At this time, I'll turn it over to the operator to open up the line for questions. In order to give everyone an opportunity, please limit yourself to one question each. If you have additional questions, you're welcome to get back in the queue and we'll take as many calls as we can.

Operator?

Questions and Answers:

Operator

Thank you [Operator Instructions] We will take our first question from Matt Brooklier with Buckingham Research. Please go ahead.

Matt Brooklier -- Buckingham Research -- Analyst

Yeah. Thanks, and good morning. Maybe if you could -- want to talk about the rental business and there is some deceleration there, but can you talk about your thoughts on the size of the fleet this year? Are the expectations that potentially you grow a little bit less than maybe how you're thinking about things in the first half? And then, I know, we're a little bit of a ways, but what are your thoughts on the rental fleet as we look into 2020?

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Yes. Let me just give you a high level overview of what's changed from maybe a quarter ago. And it is a relatively contained area, where we saw really a slowdown in rental demand. It was really around tractors, primarily driven, I would say, by the for-hire carrier market, where there was just less demand for rental tractors. So we would expect now in the second half we're going to downsize the fleet and we'd expect less demand in that area. The rest of the business, though, I would tell you on the truck side, especially around the medium-duty tractors, where we've upsized the fleet in order to capture more of that e-commerce driven demand, it's on track and going well. So, Dennis, I don't know if you want to give him a little more color?

Dennis C. Cooke -- President of Global Fleet Management Solutions

Yeah. Matt, I'd just add, when you look at Q2, we had originally expected tractor demand to be up year -over -year about 13% and we realized 6%. So it is still growing just at a slower rate than we expected. Trucks actually were pretty robust. We realized 11% demand increase year-over-year. We had expected even a little more, but we still feel good about what's happening from a truck point of view, but tractors are softer.

Matt Brooklier -- Buckingham Research -- Analyst

Okay. So it sounds like this is -- this cycle is a little bit different in the fact that there are some secular tailwinds on the truck side that's potentially offsetting incremental softness on the tractor side, and you guys feel pretty good about I guess the fleet size for the year?

Dennis C. Cooke -- President of Global Fleet Management Solutions

Yes, right. Obviously, we're reducing the tractor fleet side, while on the truck front, we feel good. When you compare this to 2012 and Q1 was actually stronger this year than in 2012, when we saw that downturn, Q2 was a little weaker, but in the second half, we see the trucks remaining very strong.

Matt Brooklier -- Buckingham Research -- Analyst

Okay. And what's the mix right now between tractors and trucks in the rental fleet?

Dennis C. Cooke -- President of Global Fleet Management Solutions

Yes. So we have got 33% of the fleet is tractors and 52% is trucks.

Matt Brooklier -- Buckingham Research -- Analyst

Got it. Okay. I appreciate it.

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

So, I would add Matt too is that, it doesn't really change our long-term strategy though of, we've said, we view rental as really a complementary product line to lease and our goal is to really grow it at about the pace that we grow lease. So I wouldn't say that -- I'd say that, that remains on track. And again, the good news is, I think we've got some solid asset management policies and strategy that we're implementing, that will get the fleet right sized in a short period of time.

Matt Brooklier -- Buckingham Research -- Analyst

Okay. That's helpful. Robert. I appreciate the time.

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Thanks, Matt.

Operator

[Operator Instructions] We'll take our next question from Scott Group with Wolfe Research. Please go ahead.

Scott Group -- Wolfe Research -- Analyst

Hey. Thanks. Morning guys. So, I think last quarter you guys talked about a $0.40 headwind in '19, and then, again, in '20, from losses on sales and lower residual values. Can you give the updated number now in the guidance for '19? And then, does this make the 2020 number worse as well? And then, I got that used truck pricing year-over-year, but I didn't hear sequentially. So maybe if you can give us that too and what you're thinking about for back half of the year, used truck price?

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Let me address the second half of the year, the majority of the reduction in guidance is really from the used truck side. So you can argue that's just incremental, whether it's accelerated depreciation, valuation adjustments or losses, that will be incremental to the $0.38 that we discussed in the beginning of the year.

As it relates to what the pricing assumptions that we've made to build that guidance, we believe we've made prudent adjustments of the forecast. To put it into some context, it is really based on a slowdown in volume that we saw beginning late in the quarter, I mean June. So, in June we saw, we had been clipping along at a pretty decent volume level with the pricing we had and in June, we really saw a drop off, which I think is what the broader markets also saw in June. So based on that and our assessment of the pricing environment for used trucks, we did take down our tractor pricing. This is really a tractor issue, a class A tractor issue. We brought down our tractor pricing about 10% in July to align with where we saw the market.

So as we go into next -- as we go into the second half of the year, that's built in. In addition to that, we know we have more volume to sell in the second half, and we want to retail as much of that volume that we can, but given the softness that we saw in June, we assumed in the forecast that most of that is going to be wholesale. So, that's why you see maybe a more disproportionate impact from that. So, that doesn't take away from the fact that we're doing everything we can based on the expanded sales force and inside sales to retail as much as we can, but we felt given that level -- one month only of really seeing it and that level of uncertainty, we felt it was prudent to commit at that level.

As it relates to the 2020, I would tell you, it's still too early to tell. I think if used truck pricing does decline and the amount of wholesale that we have to do materializes, as we go into 2020, you probably -- if that trend continues, should have more impact from either gains or losses are accelerated. Policy probably wouldn't -- the policy impact probably wouldn't change much as the five-year rolling average, but you would see that. So still lot remains to be seen.

Number one is, does the decline really materialize, if it does materialize, how steep will it go, and then the duration of a slowdown if it does happen. So it's a challenging time for us to do a forecast really, because we only had really one month and now, maybe call it, month and a half of really seeing the impact of this. So we try to give you the best view that we can based on the information that we have, but clearly, our goal is to try to again base the same, our strategy is to retail as many vehicles as we possibly can.

Scott Group -- Wolfe Research -- Analyst

Just so I understand, when you guys were originally talking about that $0.40 give or take headwind again in 2020, were you assuming additional accelerated depreciation next year? And then, I guess, does it now feel more likely that we'll have to do that?

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

We were assuming more accelerated depreciation next year and then a larger policy adjustment less accelerated in 2021. So if pricing comes down there will be more accelerated I would argue than what we had before, but again, Scott, I think that still remains to be seen. If I have had three months of experience under my belt before we gave you this forecast, I'd be able to probably give you a little bit better color, but given it was such a short time frame, I think, we tried to take a prudent number here, but it's hard to tell exactly where the market will settle in the next several months.

Scott Group -- Wolfe Research -- Analyst

Okay. Thank you.

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Okay.

Operator

We'll take our next question from Brian Ossenbeck with JPMorgan. Please go ahead.

Brian Ossenbeck -- JP Morgan -- Analyst

Hey. Good morning. Thanks for taking the question. Maybe just a follow-up on the last line of questioning on trends in the market, specifically tractors. You mentioned things particularly got softer in June. I know there's little bit of seasonality coming into July in the summer, but can you give us an update on how things trended from June into July so far, both in rental and in used vehicles, specifically on the tractor side?

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Yes. I think on the rental side, specifically around tractors, we're seeing the trend behave seasonally the way you'd expect. So, I would say, tractor rental was consistent with what we saw in June, which was what we've got built into the forecast. Around used vehicle sales, again, it's still too early to talk. A lot of the sales come in at the end of the month, but with the changing in pricing, we have seen more activity, both in our inside sales and at our lots. So, more retail activity would obviously be good for the balance of year forecast, but again, I'd say, it's still too early to tell on that.

Brian Ossenbeck -- JP Morgan -- Analyst

Okay. And then the export market. I know it's not a huge factor here, but it can be a swing, specifically in North America. What are you guys seeing so far year-to-date and expecting for the rest of the year?

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Yes. During this cycle, it's been tough because with the strong dollar and what's going on outside the US in some of the emerging markets, we haven't seen the same levels of demand that we've seen at other times. So, it's still somewhat limited, I would say, in terms of demand. So, I think, it's kind of interesting because I think if you look at used vehicle sales, it's pretty relatively easy to forecast the supply of used trucks that will be in the market based on what's been built over the last several years. The tough part is really forecasting demand. And with what happened in the for-hire market over the 12 months, as you've seen for-hire rates come down, you've seen freight begin to -- volumes begin to soft in the less several months, I think that all plays into just less demand, if you will, for some of these vehicles. But as everything goes, economy picks up, you start seeing more stuff moving around, and you could see this thing flip the other way pretty quickly. So there's still a lot of, I would say, uncertainty around it, but we're certainly seeing in the used truck market what I think you've heard from other companies that are in this space in terms of really it was volume softness in June and then we're trying to be prudent about what we expect for the balance of the year.

Brian Ossenbeck -- JP Morgan -- Analyst

All right. Thanks. And if I can ask just one quick follow-up on the backlog. So a big split when we're looking at tractors specifically. Is three a big split between sleepers and day caps?

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

That we have to sell?

Brian Ossenbeck -- JP Morgan -- Analyst

Yes. What's held for sale, is there a different mix now versus earlier in the year and last year when you look at what's in there? Any material difference with sleepers and day caps?

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

No, It's about 50-50.

Brian Ossenbeck -- JP Morgan -- Analyst

Okay. All right. Thank you for the time this morning.

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

All right, Brian.

Operator

We'll take our next question from Todd Fowler with KeyBanc Capital Markets. Please go ahead.

Todd Fowler -- KeyBanc Capital Market -- Analyst

Great. Thanks and good morning. Robert. Can you just talk a...

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Hey, Todd.

Todd Fowler -- KeyBanc Capital Market -- Analyst

Hey. Good morning. Can you talk a little bit more about the lease pipeline? I mean, obviously, you had strong visibility coming into this year and you've been pretty confident around that 11,000 units. You've booked a lot of that now in the first half. As you look out over into the second half, I guess, how do we think about the cadence of additions? And I think you've talked about 3,500 as a baseline into 2020. Can you just talk a little bit about what you're seeing on the lease side and expectations going forward?

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Well, I'll tell you, the lease sales -- I would tell you -- statement across all of our contractual businesses that it remains very strong. Now, for all of them versus last year, we're down from last year, because last year was a record year in terms of sales, but if you look at where we're going to end the year, I would say, for contractual businesses and even in our ChoiceLease business, it should be third best sales year in history of the Company. So, still a very healthy pipeline, a lot of demand, more companies wanting to outsource truck lease, wanting to outsource the dedicated, wanting to outsource logistics. So those secular trends are in full swing and we don't see them necessarily slowing down. Obviously, just the level of overall economic activity is less than it was last year, but we still see those going forward as good trends for growth.

Now. I would expect this year's growth, we're looking at now maybe 11,000 or so, last year it was about 10,000, next year given the OEM production information and forecast that we have, which lot of folks expect to be down maybe 20%, I would expect our growth will be down also just relative to this fewer at-bats, if you will, for us. Also, based on the asset management actions that we're taking to reduce our rental fleet and redeploy equipment, I would expect more of our lease sales to be fulfilled with used equipment versus new. That will mostly impact late in this year as a lot of our new leases are already locked in or scheduled through end of October, beginning of November. But I would expect as we go into next year, we'll still continue to have more of that redeployment activity and that should reduce some reduction in CapEx as we get into 2020 in addition to less growth.

Todd Fowler -- KeyBanc Capital Market -- Analyst

Okay. That's helpful. And then, just to follow-up, as you see that shift on rental to the strength that you're seeing in medium-duty versus the tractor market, is there an impact on profitability? I mean is the margin profile, different? I would think that the revenue per unit is probably meaningfully different between those two classes or the breakout there. How do we think about the profitability if we see that continued secular demand on the medium-duty side relative to the tractor side?

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

I think if you looked at it, if you step back and look at the profitability overall, the returns overall on the trucks will be better than on the tractors. So it's not a bad think necessarily, but tractors are part of, obviously, our portfolio, part of the lease portfolio. So, you're going to see that tractor demand move up and down in rental, just like truck demand at some point, but over the cycle, both of them will provide good returns for us. So that's really the way I would characterize it. But I'd say, the move from tractors to truck, is not a bad thing for returns.

Todd Fowler -- KeyBanc Capital Market -- Analyst

Okay. For returns it makes sense, but maybe some impact depending on where we're at in the cycle from a margin standpoint?

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Correct.

Todd Fowler -- KeyBanc Capital Market -- Analyst

Okay. Good. That's helpful. I'll get back in line. Thank you for the time.

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Thanks Todd.

Operator

We'll take our next question from Jeff Kauffman with Loop Capital Markets. Please go ahead.

Jeffrey Kauffman -- Loop Capital Markets -- Anlayst

Thank you. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Scott. I want to go a different direction and talk about some of the growth initiatives on the table, particularly on the alternative fuel side. In particular, company called Nikola is coming out with their fuel cell product. You're one of a number of companies partnering, not just in the leasing of this product to their initial customers, but also the build out of their hydrogen fueling stations over the next couple of years. Can you talk a little bit about this project and what expectations there might be on capital or returns? My understanding is, these fuel cell trucks are going to be fairly expensive and you're going to be leasing them to the customers?

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Right. We announced our partnership with Nikola now a couple of years ago and we've gone out and looked for companies that are start-ups and innovators in new engine technology and alternative fuels. So our goal and our partnership with Nikola is really in their sales and service arm or sales and service network, if you will, here in North America. So as they move through their development phase and into production, once they're in production and at a point where they can deliver, they're going to be delivering trucks. That's when Ryder really will start to play a bigger role in terms of us being to provide a sales avenue for them and also a maintenance and service avenue for them. But I think we're still early innings, if you will, in that process. I think we're still looking at a earliest roll-out still several years from now. So it's an interesting technology, we're encouraged by it, but still a lot of work to do to get into production.

Jeffrey Kauffman -- Loop Capital Markets -- Anlayst

I think just to follow up. They had given a presentation at the ACT Expo, and I think they said, their first trucks are going to be delivered to customers later this year, with a larger roll out, probably by 2022. But will you be owning those trucks, purchasing them and then leasing them out to the customers and will you be bearing risk in the marketplace when those leases expire?

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah. No, we will be partnering with them on that piece. A lot of the details around exactly how that will be put together is still to be worked out, but clearly on these types of vehicles, there is a significant upfront capital expenditure that we will be working with NiKola on how to address those. I would say, it's still early.

Jeffrey Kauffman -- Loop Capital Markets -- Anlayst

Okay. That's what I wanted to know. Thank you.

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Thank you.

Operator

Our next question will come from Stephanie Benjamin with SunTrust. Please go ahead.

Stephanie Benjamin -- SunTrust -- Analyst

Hi. Good afternoon. I wanted to circle back on just the used truck pricing environment and the guidance reduction. Can you give a little bit of color, still a broad range with your expectations for the full year for EPS, what's baked in? I know you mentioned that you took pricing down about 10% based on what you saw in June. Can you walk through the levers of what happens to get to the low end of your guidance and then conversely at the high end of your guidance? Thanks.

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Yes, Stephanie. I wanted to give you a little bit of color with that 10% and then the fact that we're going to wholesale more, but given still a lot of uncertainty in the market, I certainly don't want to be totally prescriptive about exactly what's built in, only because we don't know yet. And we've tried to give a range that gives you some indication of where things could go. And it could be that I -- the range was built on 10% decline in retail that we already put in place and then the incremental amount of vehicles we have to wholesale, tractors we have to wholesale, we have to sell will be wholesale. That may not be the way we get there. We may retail more. We don't know what the retail price is going to be. So I think this gives you a good view of where the results would be or could be, and then, we think we've made the right adjustments and the prudent adjustments. There is obviously upside if we do better, but I don't want to get too prescriptive of exactly the numbers because truth is, we don't know and we certainly don't want to impact the market with precise assumptions that we're making.

Stephanie Benjamin -- SunTrust -- Analyst

No. Understood. I think that makes lot of sense. And then just a follow-up to that. In terms of other initiatives, I know you've been pretty vocal on what you've been doing to build out your retail sales force internally to switch from that wholesale to retail. Is there anything else from just a cost perspective or overall cost reduction programs that you might be able to either accelerate or to offset some of this decline as well? Just maybe walk through some of the levers you have to pull?

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Yes. I think, look, cost reduction, we talked about the maintenance cost initiatives. We're really encouraged by that, making very good progress and we're on target for this year and really seeing good progress for the ongoing components of that. So we're very encouraged by that. Zero-based budgeting continues to be as a foundation of our budgeting process. So those are levers that we could continue to the pull. I would tell you that, beyond that, we're also looking at within our used vehicle sales operation continuing to find efficiencies with more of our inside sales and drawing board leads into inside sales. We are making continued enhancements on our website to really attract more buyers and make it easier for people to buy online. So we've got some changes coming in now and we've got some changes coming in at the end of the year that could really help us facilitate bringing more people to our website and then making it easier for them to transact with us, which we're encouraged about. So I think those are the big things that we are going to work on.

We also, I would tell you, are also looking to continue to derisk our leases, right. We've talked about last year, beginning of last year, we started -- we really reduced the residual value assumptions on all of our leases to really improve the -- or reduce the risks associated with that final residual value, which obviously we've been impacted with over the last few years. So we feel very good about the new leases that we're putting on. But we're going to continue to look for more ways to reduce that risk, right, whether it's continuing to reduce the residuals, may be getting more granular about the returns of our leases by industry sector, so which are the industries that we maybe have better returns that don't have better returns. So we're going to continue to refine.

And I think capital allocation is extremely important in our business with the amount of capital that we deploy and really being able to -- now that we have this growth, also be able to now be more precise and more targeted about where the capital goes to make sure over time we're getting improved returns.

Stephanie Benjamin -- SunTrust -- Analyst

Great. Really appreciate the color. Thanks so much.

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Stephanie.

Operator

We'll take our next question from David Ross with Stifel. Please go ahead.

David Griffith Ross -- Stifel -- Analyst

Yes. Good morning, everyone.

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Good morning, David.

David Griffith Ross -- Stifel -- Analyst

Rob, you made a quick comment at the end of one of those answers there about a bigger policy adjustment in 2021. Can you just explain what you're talking about there?

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah. What I meant is, we gave some guidance at the beginning of this year where we said, if used truck pricing remained at the 2018 levels, that we would have similar impact from used vehicle sales with the combination of policy accelerated and gains and losses, that we would have a similar impact in 2020 and 2021 as we saw in 2019, or we are originally forecasting in 2019, which was $0.38. So what I was trying to explain is that obviously if used truck pricing were to drop below those levels, I would expect us in 2020 to have more, whether you call it losses or accelerated depreciation.

And then as I get into 2021, if it remained at that level, which is still a big if, and really getting ahead of ourselves if we're making that assumption, I would say that, then you five-year rolling average, you would be adding probably a lower year in 2020 than we had originally forecast, somewhat lower, which would mean that the five-year rolling average would be -- it would have more depreciation headwind from that. But again, that's hypothetical and there's still a lot of things that need to happen between now and then, but I just wanted to put a little bit of context to say, hey, if used truck pricing were to come down and stay down, yes, there would be more pressure on used vehicle sales in 2020 and 2021 than we had originally forecast.

David Griffith Ross -- Stifel -- Analyst

And then the FMS target range for the margin at 10% to 12%, has only been achieved I think three years of the last 10 years. So, why do you think that's a realistic long-term target range and what would you assign the odds of falling within that range in 2020 be?

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah. I think, the way we've modeled this out, if used truck pricing stays where it was in 2018, or averages to where it was in 2018, I think you start getting to the bottom end of that range by 2021. Clearly, with used truck pricing going down, I think, it puts pressure on that and it pushes it -- you push it out some more. So there is a certain amount of used vehicle returns that we would normally expect on average. And unfortunately, over the last several years, we've been below that number that's what's put pressure on our earnings. Our five-year rolling average methodology is now beginning to get us down to what we're currently seeing and I think once you get there, then you start to see the returns on the new business coming in.

So you really almost have to step back and we've been in business a long time and we've been doing this lease business for a long time and during that-during my entire career of time, there have been numerous -- countless numbers of used vehicle cycles, where demand goes up, demand goes down, supply goes up and down, and the pricing can move. That pricing change does impact our earnings and in good years, you're going to have better returns and in bad years, you're going to suffer some from losses and accelerated depreciation in this case. I think what's happened over the last few years is, there was a pretty significant drop in 2015 that has kind of brought us down to a more -- a new normal, if you will, that we're adjusting to.

And we're going to get to that new normal using our known methodology in the next couple of years. And whether it's a little bit more or little bit less, might mean just where we are in the cycle, but ultimately, our depreciation policy will stabilize here over the next couple of years and then what you're going to what you're going to see is more accelerated during times when the market is down and then better gains when the market is up. And that's really the way that the model should work. And again, we can't lose sight. This has really been a tractor issue. So that we are really honed in on, on making sure that we get this thing stabilized going forward. But once that's done, I think that's the time when you start to see FMS getting back to those levels.

David Griffith Ross -- Stifel -- Analyst

Great. Thank you.

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

All right.

Operator

Our next question will come from Amit Mehrotra with Deutsche Bank.

Amit Mehrotra -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst

Thanks. Hey, Robert. Just a quick follow-up if I could on used values. So just so I'm clear, based on the new pricing assumptions, very simply, when does the accounting loss become neutralized against the rolling five-year policy and higher depreciation? I think it was 2021, related to what you said before in this hypothetical scenario, but now, does that get pushed out to 2022 or beyond based on the revisions you're making to the pricing?

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Yes. Remember, it depends on what happens with used vehicle pricing over next couple of years, right. If used vehicle pricing normalizes to what we saw at the end of last year -- I mean, during last year, you get there by the end of 2021. It goes up, you're going to get there sooner. If it goes down, it's going to take a little longer. So, the issue is just the timing of what happens with the used vehicle market over the next couple of years. You can't say the next six months are going to dictate the next two years. So you've got to really look at it over a longer period of time to really understand when it is that the book values will normalize with where the market is.

Amit Mehrotra -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst

Right. With this revision down though into 2021, based on your best guess gets pushed out to 2022, and then this multi-year headwind that you've been facing then at that point neutralizes, and could even turn positive?

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

[Speech Overlap] you said, Amit, if it stays down during that period of time.

Amit Mehrotra -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst

Right.

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

If it comes back up, like it goes those through a cycle, you could end up where you were before, you could end up better than you were before. I mean it all depends. It depends on what happens with the cycle because I think most people are looking at the next couple of years, saying, hey, there might be pressure of oversupply in the next few months or in the next year, but then there's going to be a shortage of supply certainly in the model years that we sell because that's when the 2016s and 2017s come in, which there was fewer units built during that period of time. So...

Amit Mehrotra -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst

No. Sorry. Then we'll have a half-decade cycle of gains I guess?

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Looking forward to that.

Amit Mehrotra -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst

Yeah, exactly. Me too. Let me ask one positive question on Dedicated. It obviously saw a big step up in profitability. I just wanted to talk about the net impact of the contracts that you brought on at the end of last year that are ramping up obviously quite nicely, and then the initial investments needed to bring new business online. So if I'm not mistaken, you had expected lower end of that 8% to 9% pre-tax margin this year. I mean, I assume that would be better just given the 2Q strong pre-tax margin performance. If you could just talk about the margin profile in the back half and where you guys are tracking relative to the full year?

John J. Diez -- President, Dedicated Transportation Solutions

So Amit, John Diez here. Just to give you a little bit perspective on the second half. We do expect to be elevated from prior year. If you recall, last year, we did have some headwinds around some of the new start-ups. But really second quarter was a really clean quarter from an operating performance for the business. We had the start-ups and the new business that we brought online perform quite well. We also saw the base portfolio also get better and back to historical levels with regards to, we reduced the age of our vehicle fleet, which improves the returns. We've also seen candidly an improvement in the labor market, which has obviously been a drag on margins over the last 18 months. And that's also starting to recover. So, as we see the prospects going into the second half of next year -- into this year and into next year, the labor market is better, we refreshed the fleet, we're seeing good activity and good leverage from the new business we brought online and we're seeing good sales momentum to help us get there. So, overall, I think, like you heard from Robert, we're going to be in line with the long-term plans this year and then, next year, we should be delivering at that 8% to 9% level again.

Amit Mehrotra -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst

And I don't mean to be yes -- .

John J. Diez -- President, Dedicated Transportation Solutions

Go ahead.

Amit Mehrotra -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst

I don't mean to be like overly specific on this, but I mean year-to-date, your above the high end of your plan and I'm just trying to understand, in the back half of the year, I mean should we expect more 9%-ish for the full year, i.e., the high end of that 8% to 9% or just given the success in the first half I guess?

John J. Diez -- President, Dedicated Transportation Solutions

Yes. I think that's a fair assessment based on where we are at mid-year. And just keep in mind, second quarter is typically our strongest quarter -- second and third quarters, so you will see third quarter also perform very well and then fourth quarter, it will taper off.

Amit Mehrotra -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst

Okay, All right, guys. Thanks for taking my questions. I appreciate it.

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

All right, Amit. Thank you.

Operator

Our next question will come from Justin Long with Stephens. Please go ahead.

Justin Long -- Stephens -- Analyst

Thanks. And wanted to follow up with the question on rental. So, I'm sorry if I missed it, but did you talk specifically about what you're assuming for the year-over-year change in rental demand in the second half? And also, as we think about the potential for rental to decline, what's your view on the detrimental margin profile of the business? I'm just curious, how much you can adjust the business and reallocate equipment to help offset a weaker demand environment?

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

I'll let Dennis give you some color on that, but just to the last part of your question, what I would tell you is that, we have offset the vast majority of this decline that we're expecting between asset management actions and reducing the fleet and also cost actions that we took. So, rental is a very small part of the overall take down on the balance of your forecast. It's primarily used vehicle story. But I'll let Dennis to tell you -- add more specifics around what we're expecting to happen with rental.

Dennis C. Cooke -- President of Global Fleet Management Solutions

Yes. So, Justin, we're expecting in Q3, demand for power to be up 3% year-over-year. It will be really trucks driving that. And then, in Q4, we expect it to be flat year-over-year and you got the mix, you get trucks that are going to be doing well, and you got tractors that have headwind.

Justin Long -- Stephens -- Analyst

Okay. That's really helpful. And then circling back on used, you've talked about wholesaling more units in the back half of the year. But can you help us understand what you were previously assuming for the split of sales between retail and wholesale, what that looks like in the updated guidance for this year, and then, maybe where you think that normalizes as we get into 2020?

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah. Again, what we put forward was a scenario of the estimate where we think things are going to end up. I don't want to again get too prescriptive, but our original forecast was that we were going to retail about 70% of what we sell. Obviously, what's currently in the balance of your forecast is really to wholesale more of the incremental units. So I won't get into exact what that is. And again my belief is that we'll probably end up retailing more than that. The unknown is just what the price is going to be in that market and we're in a bit of a price discovery process here as we go into the back half of the year on the retail side, but our push is to retail as much as we can.

Justin Long -- Stephens -- Analyst

Okay. Great. I'll leave it at that. Thanks for the time.

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Thanks, Justin.

Operator

We'll now take a follow-up from Scott Group with Wolfe Research. Please go ahead.

Scott Group -- Wolfe Research -- Analyst

Hey. Thanks for the follow-up. So, Robert, just philosophically, I wanted to ask you a question. So, we've got visibility to these continued used headwinds for several more years. Why don't we do just a more aggressive writedown, more aggressive accelerated depreciation to just get through this and stop having this same discussion every single quarter?

Robert S. Brunn -- Vice President of Investor Relations, Corporate Strategy & Product Strategy

Yeah. I feel your pain, Scott. And I think the challenge for us is just the accounts and the way that accounting rules work, right. It is, you really can't write down a vehicle that's in operation. And as those residuals change, you have to take it over time as part of your new residual valuation, and then depreciation expense. So that's really been the challenge and that's -- obviously, here at Ryder, any time we have bad news, our goal is to get it out as soon as possible, and get it behind us. This one, as we go into the fourth year of this, we haven't been able to, because of the way that you've got to treat vehicles and you've got to treat these residual assumptions.

These residual assumptions are nothing more than an estimate of what we think the vehicle will sell for over time. Some of these vehicles are going to be sold in the next year, some of them will be sold seven years from now. So this methodology of a rolling five-year average has really held Ryder in good stead for many years. The challenge that we have run into is the precipitous drop in tractor pricing that happened in '15. And the first precipitous increase as used vehicle pricing really went up between '11 and '15, and then, the big drop after that. That increase after the great recession, really drifted up our residual values more than obviously now we would like them to have gone. Never went up to the pricing it was at, but had a little bit -- drifted a little too high I would say.

Now, we're working through the process of -- with this elongated, now what appears to be a more new normal, we're on our way to drifting them down. And all the math we do, says that, this stuff -- if we just continue with the methodology and this is a new normal, we will be done with this by 2021. If there is ways to get through that quicker, we're going to continue to look at them and try to get that done, but to this point, Scott, the answer has been that this is the way to really get through it.

Scott Group -- Wolfe Research -- Analyst

Okay. And then just a couple of other just quick things. The bad debt expense you talked about in the second quarter, is that some customer bankruptcies, and do you think that continues? And then, along those lines, are you seeing a spike in early terminations, cancellations, anything like that that tells you that we're really starting to see capacity exit the market here?

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah. No. I mean it wasn't unusual quarter in terms of we had it. It wasn't just one, it was a group of them. I would say, it's a handful of them that we had challenges with. They actually have been a weak for-hire carriers, but we don't expect that to be an ongoing trend. Our credit standards and our credit ratings -- credit profile of our customers haven't really changed, it was just an unusual quarter in terms of that.

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Operator

And we'll take another follow-up from Brian Ossenbeck with JPMorgan. Please go ahead.

Brian Ossenbeck -- JP Morgan -- Analyst

Hey. Thanks for the additional time. I just want to get your thoughts on two quick things, if I could, please. Just the competition in the current market with a little bit softer activity and more uncertainty. Obviously, Dedicated is still pretty good in terms of the pipeline but you have seen some competition on the Supply Chain that's going to show up in the back half of the year. So just want to get your thoughts on that as you look into the rest of this year and into next year?

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

I think, Brian, all of our businesses, our three contractual business -- main contractual businesses are all benefiting from this secular trend of more outsourcing. And I think you talk to us, you talk to any competitor, they will probably tell you the same thing. I don't think competition has gotten necessarily more intense, there are more players, but I think there's only a certain number of players that can do the large type outsourcing that we do in any of these groups. So, I would say that we continue to see a good market in terms of growth opportunities. It's a relatively rational market. I think over the last -- especially, on the Supply Chain side, over the last couple of decades I think the market has learned how to really add value and do these deals in a way where they are good for the customer and also good for the provider. And we're encouraged about what we're seeing really in new opportunities across the different industry sectors in Supply Chain and really across both the ChoiceLease and Dedicated.

Brian Ossenbeck -- JP Morgan -- Analyst

Okay. Got it. And then on the e-commerce fulfillment side, it looks like you've got some scale now with three facilities. I know you have typically put that in final mile when you talk about the size and the run rate. Clearly, shipping speeds are increasing across the industry. So how do you feel like you're positioned there, what's the customer reception been like and if you could give us an update on the relative size inclusive of Ryder final mile, which I think is how you have characterized it in the past?

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Yes. Remember, there is two components, there is the Ryder Last Mile, which is the big and bulky home delivery business, and then there is the e-commerce fulfillment initiative, which is really getting after more parcel type business targeting companies that want to go direct to consumer without going through an e-retailer. So the last mile is going very well, we're encouraged by the cross-selling opportunities that we're seeing, we're ramping up -- we've ramped up really our sales activity of leveraging our supply chain sales force to also cross sell into Ryder Last Mile, well operated business. We see more and more companies looking for that as an option. So we're encouraged by what's going on there. On the e-fulfillment, we're really in the more early innings, got a pipeline that's growing, but I'll let Steve give you a little bit more color around e-fulfillment.

Steve Sensing -- President of Global Supply Chain Solutions

Yeah. I'd say that, right now, as Robert said, we've stood up the three buildings and they are up and operational, fully functional. Pipeline is healthy, so we're seeing a lot of attention through our marketing efforts and also inside sales across FMS and DTS. We have signed a few customers here recently. So, we'll begin operations for them in the back half of the year, but I would say that, the team is excited about having the solutions. Our customers are continuing to have discussions. So we look forward to really getting through the implementation this year and really executing on the strong pipeline as we go into 2020.

Brian Ossenbeck -- JP Morgan -- Analyst

Okay. Thanks for extra details. Appreciate it.

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Thanks, Brian.

Operator

And at this time, there are no additional questions. I'd like to turn the call back over to Mr. Robert Sanchez for closing remarks.

Robert S. Brunn -- Vice President of Investor Relations, Corporate Strategy & Product Strategy

Okay. Well, thanks everyone and we are at the end of July, so we look forward to seeing you guys as we get out in the market here certainly at the end of August, I think, as when things ramp up again. So take care. And have a safe day.

Operator

[Operator Closing Remarks]

Duration: 64 minutes

Call participants:

Robert S. Brunn -- Vice President of Investor Relations, Corporate Strategy & Product Strategy

Robert E. Sanchez -- Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Scott Parker -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Dennis C. Cooke -- President of Global Fleet Management Solutions

John J. Diez -- President, Dedicated Transportation Solutions

Steve Sensing -- President of Global Supply Chain Solutions

Matt Brooklier -- Buckingham Research -- Analyst

Scott Group -- Wolfe Research -- Analyst

Brian Ossenbeck -- JP Morgan -- Analyst

Todd Fowler -- KeyBanc Capital Market -- Analyst

Jeffrey Kauffman -- Loop Capital Markets -- Anlayst

Stephanie Benjamin -- SunTrust -- Analyst

David Griffith Ross -- Stifel -- Analyst

Amit Mehrotra -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst

Justin Long -- Stephens -- Analyst

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