Complex sentence: In interviews, Jacobs has stated that his entry into the truck brokerage industry was driven by a sense that the industry was ripe for consolidation due to extreme fragmentation, with only 15 percent of trucking outsourced to third-party brokers.
Split into simpler sentences: In interviews, Jacobs has stated that he entered the truck brokerage industry because he sensed it was ripe for consolidation, due to extreme fragmentation. At the time, only 15 percent of trucking outsourced to third-party brokers.