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Schneider said the acquisition price is around $390 million and is subject to certain adjustments, adding that the deal includes separate agreements to purchase certain real estate assets related to Cowan Systems’ business for around $31 million in cash.

Green Bay, Wis.-based freight transportation and logistics services provider Schneider is on track to roll out a new intermodal service offering, which will offer continuous freight rail service between Mexico- and Texas-based points in the Southeast, with service set to commence next month.

Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently caught up with Erin Van Zeeland, Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and Senior Vice President and General Manager of Logistics, for Green Bay, Wisc.-based truckload, intermodal and logistics services provider Schneider National. Van Zeeland addressed various topics, including: Peak Season, intermodal, logistics technology, and near shoring among others.

The trucking industry is usually a reliable early indicator of any economic slowdown affecting the economy. Usually, but in late 2022, not always. There are mixed signals emanating from the usual barrage of economic figures released by various sectors of the trucking industry.

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The confluence of COVID-induced disruptions to supply chains and unpredictable trucking demand levels will mean sharply higher truckload rates well into 2021, a leading TL executive is predicting. Mark Rourke, president and CEO of Schneider, the nation’s second-largest truckload carrier, said the nation’s supply chains are in “a highly unique period” in our recent history.

The latest tweaks to the 83-year-old truck driver hours of service regulations went into effect Sept. 29 as the Transportation Department’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) attempts to build in flexibility to a monolithic regulation covering some 3.5 million long-haul truckers.

Learn how an up-to-date optimization model provided one U.S. distributor with a 55% cost avoidance when one of their facilities had to temporarily close because of a worker who contracted COVID-19.

Freight transportation and logistics services provider Schneider and Blue Yonder (formerly JDA), a provider of AI-driven and end-to-end supply chain management services, recently announced they are teaming up on a new carrier marketplace offering that will run within Blue Yonder’s TMS (transportation management system) platform, entitled Luminate.

Truckstop.com said this week that Book It Now will be available for free for a limited time to freight brokers using Truckstop.com Load Board Pro, adding that it is free for carriers and will appear on their Truckstop Mobile application.

Schneider is now on board with Trucking Tools’ Book-It-Now offering, a cloud-based software platform that fully automates the process of booking truckload shipments with carriers.

Freight transportation and logistics services provider Schneider and Truckstop.com, a load board and provider of spot market freight matching services, announced this week they recently completed a pilot program that provides intuitive advanced functionality to Schneider carriers, entitled “Book it Now.”