I listened in on the quarterly investor conference call this morning - interesting stuff. Here are some tidbits:

~2850 company trucks under the ctg umbrella, (5% of them sit waiting for drivers!)
ctg will add ~150 new trucks & retire 250 for the rest of the year (average tractor age is <2 years but slowly increasing)
Average truck brought in a record-high $3300/week revenue

NW & midwest regions are slow
SW dedicated is shrinking (was 500 trucks now 400) as better revenue available elsewhere
West Coast is strong -- company takes poor rates east-to-west just to get their piece of the west-to-east market.
Percentage of trucks running team is down slightly

The brass kept talking about their push to get more drivers into their own truck -- odd since I as a driver have never heard anything about their lease-purchase program (maybe they recruit after 1 year?)

finding & keeping good safe drivers remains challenging... company's solution is pay increases (mostly implemented)

On that last point I was a bit surprised that the focus on driver retention was so heavily weighted towards pay. Granted, my decision to come to covenant was primarily about expected 1st-year earnings, but whether or not I stay depends as much on how well I'm treated & how busy I stay. I hope brass considers driver morale too and implements improvements like apu's. And the thankyou thursday form messages are nice and all, but imo a personalized attaboy message after meeting a tight schedule on a critical account would go as far as a $0.005/mile raise...