I've been in the freight biz for 20 years now & I have never seen it this bad. The loads out of the far east on which we all depended are drying/have dried up. As for converted pax 400s rainboe, I'm tending to agree with you. The -8F is a fantastic aircraft have no doubt about it but I wonder.... say $40-$50M to acquire and convert a pax aircraft or $200M for the new one.