we started seeing a pick up in the summer we were talking to steve leaseman earlier this hour on how economists are all over the map going into the year. what is the trucking volume telling you? >> you're right. we first started seeing the trucking volumes start edging up in late june and then july was unusually strong it was actually above june levels that's not seasonally the norm the strength in trucking has actually continued we host a private trucker and logistics call every quarter we hosted ours early last week and everybody on the call was pretty bullish and they're even calling for the strength to continue through the remainder of this year and actually into next year as well. >> so it sounds like a z but one of the asterisks is that a lot of the demand is restocking and once we achieve that, there will be a hangover, that the v becomes more of a side ways move from there is there a way to tell how much of this is restocking versus kind of the kind of activity that can keep continuing >> i think that's hard to fin poi -- pinpoint exactly there's been clear restocking going o

. >>> we're going to turn back now to steve liesman, who has a little more from the beige book. some more nuggets, mr. leaseman. >> yeah, just a little bit about restaurants which was apropos about what you were talking about, saying restaurants have trouble staying open they're having problems sourcing winterized tents and propane heating, which there's a premium on and some restaurants are closing early because of the cold, places like north dakota and, perhaps, new england, already settling in. just very quickly, tyler and kelley, the fed governor this morning saying she was increasingly concerned about possible recessionary trends becoming entrenched in the economy for a lack of stimulus she made a very strong case today, at least in her opinion, as to why this economy for a lot of the reasons you were just talking about, why they need stimulus kelly? >> yeah, we were just talking about the shortage of propane heaters as well. my family up in new hampshire lost power because the snow was so bad no wonder there's a mad dash steve liesman with more beige book highlights for us >>> let's get to the bond marke