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Meanwhile, the company's second-largest unit, vacuum trucks -- which accounts for 22% of sales -- is benefiting from the ongoing adoption of safe digging practices across North America. While only 19 states had adopted safe digging as a bestpractice as of 2020, several more appear to be in the pipeline.
With these last couple of acquisitions, it's starting to speak that same language about cost and opportunity and return on investment. Dylan Lewis: To be clear, the market is rewarding them for that investment today. We've heard Jensen Huang making this very argument. Before this year, AMD wasn't able to make it.
This includes embedding retail bestpractices across the enterprise, identifying operational efficiencies, and ensuring we have the right organizational structure in place to enable our future success. We have a healthy balance sheet and no debt. In addition, our financial position continues to be solid. Free cash flow was $18.9
This step aligns with corporate governance bestpractices. Debt-to-EBITDA leverage is well below one times on a gross and net level. And it's really about having a balanced approach, balance of how you spend, making sure that we're spending our money wisely, getting the return on investment that we want.
million in net cash received from borrowing debt for lease termination liquidity and general working capital needs. Total long-term debt was $353.8 I think we have to go through -- and the brand presidents are very excited about really standardizing bestpractices so we have better execution. million, down from $51.9
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That's a good segue into the next area of focus, which is delivering the most efficient global operating model centered around cost discipline, margin expansion, and increasing returns on invested capital. We've brought in resources from other parts of our company to help with that and kind of utilizing bestpractices.
We're on track to fully deliver in line with guidance on all aspects of the combination through efficiencies, cost synergies, and free cash flow impact leveraging operational bestpractices from Aon business services. Turning now to our balance sheet and debt capacity. It's a phenomenal return at our all-time highs.
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