Sam Anderson, CEO of Bay and Bay Transportation, said cost control has been his company’s priority as rate increases have been hard to come by. FTR’s Avery Vise (left) interviews Sam Anderson of Bay and Bay and Matt Parry of Werner. In doing its M&A due diligence Bay and Bay looked at 15 brokerages that hadn’t made any money for two years. As for why capacity has been slow to exit the market, Anderson feels banks are giving fleets lots of rope since the used truck market is also down. However, he noted they are resistant to rate increases because they face their own internal pressures to not just keep transportation costs steady, but to decrease them.