Are U.S. Supply Chains Ready for Drone Warfare? | Freight Expectations

**Craig Fuller** (0:14)
Welcome to Freight Expectations, this is part of FreightWaves. Today is the weekly segment where Matt Leffler, the armchair attorney and I riff on any topic and every topic is on the board.
Matt, you missed it earlier. We had Centerline Insurance on. We are a trailer-specific insurance company. In studio, might I add, my friend, I wanted them to stay over. They're our sponsor for Freight Expectations. I know you love some trailers.

**Matthew Leffler** (0:44)
I love trailers, but-

**Craig Fuller** (0:45)
I know you're so close to you.

**Matthew Leffler** (0:47)
There's nothing better in this industry than a well-maintained commercial trailer. I'm on record saying that. But Craig, I have some breaking news today, and I really wanna tease this out a little bit. As of today, I am now the coach of the cross-country team for River Valley Christian School. So I am now a middle school cross-country coach, and Craig, I have never run cross-country in my entire life. I'm a track and field runner, but with Jeremy talking about Project 61, it's good to talk about running. So now I am also a coach.

**Craig Fuller** (1:20)
Well, congratulations. I mean, they'll hire anybody to do anything. There must be a shortage of good coaches up there.

**Matthew Leffler** (1:30)
It might very well be the case.

**Craig Fuller** (1:32)
Really, I mean, look.

**Matthew Leffler** (1:33)
It might be the case.

**Craig Fuller** (1:34)
Cross-country, I did it, my kids did it. It's just running.
I'm sure there's some techniques, Claude is perfect to teach you what to tell kids, but how much coaching do you, other than just pacing, what is there to it? It's really just raw athleticism, isn't it?

**Matthew Leffler** (1:51)
This is what I love about cross-country and track and field as well. This is about your only real opponent, and your only real opponent is yourself. You don't measure yourself against other people. You measure yourself, how did I perform today versus how I performed yesterday, and how can I be better tomorrow? And what makes running so interesting and so valuable as something that every American should do, everybody should do, is that you don't need any special gear. You can go do that today without any special training or equipment. It's just a pair of shoes and the ethic and the aptitude to get out there and push yourself. This is why I love these types of running sports, because when you're my age, 41, knocking on the door of 42, this is the kind of exercise that is so valuable and so easy to really do. And I love that you go running every day. Now, I have abandoned running, Brian Larson, but I'm going to get back into it.

**Craig Fuller** (2:38)
You know, it's a new thing for me, too, and it's really within the last three months. I started to really care about my circadian rhythm. So I got into this whole thing. I've talked about this at GOP1, started to care more about my health. I got a sauna. I got the sauna with the red light, infrareds. And so you get benefits of that. It was a bunch of stuff. But I spend time on my weekends when I'm not working, vegging out in front of the TV, watching YouTube videos. And inevitably, I've been watching these health videos and the circadian rhythm thing is pretty interesting. So I wake up in the morning, and I don't try not to look at my phone, which is a challenge at times. Especially if the dog wakes me up before the sun comes up, because I want to get up there for first light. But then I go out and I run. And what I find is I sleep so much better. It's weird. And I know this is a science to it, because you're timing, you're training your body that this is wake up, and when it's time to go to bed, your body is ready for that. But I find that if I run, I don't even like pause, I don't stretch, I know you're going to tell me I'm...
You should stretch. But to me, if I bolt out the door, I'm much more likely to do it than if I think about it. And so it's worked. I live in a long driveway, I live in the country, so it's a long road. But I get about a half mile in every morning, which is, you know, isn't great. I mean, these marathon runners and these people doing the...
The Ironman would say, you know, that's just beginner. But to me, it's an activity, you know.

**Matthew Leffler** (4:09)
The long distance is brutal on your body. I mean, if you're marathon running, that's a whole different can of worms. But what you're doing is what everyone should aspire to do. It's about building a habit. It's about doing something consistently. It doesn't matter how long or how far, how difficult you push yourself. It is about getting to that habit and doing it consistently over time that has the real benefits to yourself. I was a sprinter, Craig. I ran the 100 meter, the 200 meter, and the 400 meter. I want to be done as quickly as possible. That's the way I ran my races. But now as I get older, I think there's a lot more in terms of just getting out there and enjoying the outdoors. And with running, you can do that anywhere, anywhere in the country. You can get up and go on a little jog, get back to your truck or get back to your house, and you're ready for the day. There's nothing that makes you sleep better than just being physically exhausted. What we do is mentally taxing, but when you get out there and do something physically taxing, it gets everything working the right way. It gets you on line, it gets you excited.