GREEN BAY, Wis. — Schneider National CEO Jim Filter focused on the newly announced Norfolk Southern eastern network agreement during the company’s third-quarter earnings call today, which also highlighted improving intermodal profits.
Filter praised the potential of the proposed Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern combination, while adding some details on how the new eastern network agreement would work. The NS agreement stands on its own, he said, and the merger is “really just the icing on the cake for us.”
A transcontinental railroad “opens up a big chunk of the country” for intermodal, he said, particularly in markets in the middle of the U.S. where the combination of shorter hauls and interchange has been a challenge…