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Let's go into this, 'cause I, I told you one of the things I want to really get across to the audience on this episode was the automotive, the auto parts-

Yeah

... side of this business, which I love.

I've a, I w- I didn't do a whole lot of that work.

We, we talked a little bit.

You guided me a couple RFPs.

I don't think we ever really landed any one of these.

I probably didn't listen too well to you back in those days.

But, uh, I like it because it's somewhat recession-proof.

Like, you can be on both sides of it, right?

Mm-hmm.

Like, meaning you can sell the aftermarket stuff when it's kind of, when it's not a great economy, but when people are buying cars, you can be on the other side of it, you know, selling, you know, the new parts for, for new cars.

So when you got into...

I guess this, for, for the person who's out there that has never done a, um, automotive type delivery, like maybe first break down the different types of...

Like, I, I know there's dedicated driver solutions.

Sure.

You have obviously managing the distribution, the warehouse.

I see a lot of times you post in like these big beautiful warehouses where you got a bunch of tires and parts, like the warehousing side of it.

Yeah.

And then there's a distribution side that may be ties like a network.

So maybe just paint the overall picture of like when you think automotive, like how do you break that down in your mind?

So automotive can be broken down to multiple different facets.

I mean, the, the first thing that you talk about is, you know, the manufacturers delivering stuff to dealerships, right? Overnight distribution, you pick up at their main warehouse and you distribute to all the dealerships, or you distribute to all of the AutoZones, or you dis- distribute to all the O'Reilly stores and that sort of thing.

Mm-hmm.

That's just one caveat.