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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Schneider officials said that this new service offers shippers in the eastern region of Southern California, Las Vegas, and western Arizona with a cost-competitive transportation option to Chicago and markets in the Northeast.

Green Bay, Wisconsin-based Schneider National, a provider of truckload, intermodal and logistics services, recently announced it is broadening its middle- mile configuration to include its Van Truckload and Intermodal owned assets, in a move geared to optimize the movement of freight through its 24 terminal networks across the contiguous 48 United States.

Trucker Tools LLC, provider of trip planning, shipment visibility and freight matching solutions, said that Schneider Transportation Management is now using various offerings from Trucker Tools in order to support its growing carrier network and freight brokerage operations.