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NEWS & NOTES 10 // OWNER OPERATOR // MAY 2016 "More so than it happens today, [owner- operators] might haul for multiple carriers rather than one," says Thompson. He fore- sees it being commonplace that an inde- pendent with his own authority may "pull a Schneider or Swift trailer from point to point and then get someone else's trailer to go back." Or a nonexclusive blended leasing mod- el, with carriers agreeing to share capacity, may emerge as a norm. Something similar is happening today in the Omnitracs Sylec- tus Alliance Network, particularly preva- lent among expedited carriers using the Sylectus TMS. The platform allows carri- ers to easily reach out to others using the system for needed capacity when a load can't get covered, streamlining such trans- actions. OO