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and its subsidiaries (together “Schneider,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) are among the largest providers of surface transportation and logistics solutions in North America.
−Removed: We offer a multimodal portfolio of services and possess an array of capabilities and resources that leverage artificial intelligence, data science, and analytics to provide innovative solutions that coordinate the movement of customer products timely, safely, and effectively.
−Removed: The Company offers truckload, intermodal, and logistics services to a diverse customer base throughout the continental United States, Canada, and Mexico, thus adding value to their supply chains.
−Removed: We were founded in 1935 and have been a publicly held holding company since our initial public offering in 2017.
+Added: We offer a multimodal portfolio of services and an array of capabilities and resources that leverage artificial intelligence, data science, and analytics to provide innovative solutions that coordinate the timely, safe, and effective movement of customer products.
+Added: The Company offers truckload, intermodal, and logistics services to a diverse customer base throughout the continental U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
+Added: We were founded in 1935 and have been a publicly held holding company since our IPO in 2017.
Our stock is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker symbol “SNDR.”
−Removed: Our diversified portfolio of complementary service offerings combines truckload services with intermodal and logistics offerings, enabling us to serve the varied needs of our customers.
−Removed: Our service offerings include transportation of full-truckload freight, which we directly transport utilizing either our company-controlled revenue equipment and company drivers or owner-operators under contract with us.
+Added: Our diversified portfolio of complementary service offerings enables us to serve the varied needs of our customers and to allocate capital in a manner that seeks to maximize returns across all market cycles and economic conditions.
+Added: Our service offerings include transportation of full-truckload freight, which we directly transport utilizing either our company-owned transportation equipment and company drivers, owner-operators, or third-party carriers under contract with us.
We have arrangements with most of the major North American rail carriers to transport freight in containers.
−Removed: We also provide customized freight movement, revenue equipment, labor, systems, and delivery services tailored to meet individual customer requirements and which typically involve long-term contracts.
+Added: We also provide customized freight movement, transportation equipment, labor, systems, and delivery services tailored to meet individual customer requirements, which typically involve long-term contracts.
These arrangements are generally referred to as dedicated services and may include multiple pickups and drops, local deliveries, freight handling, specialized equipment, and freight network design.
−Removed: We also provide comprehensive logistics services with a network of thousands of reliable third-party carriers, and through a China-based subsidiary, we offer limited transportation and logistics services in China which consist primarily of brokerage services.
+Added: In addition, we provide comprehensive logistics services with a network of over 64,000 qualified third-party carriers.
We categorize our operations into the following reportable segments:
−Removed: • Truckload – which consists of freight transported and delivered by our company-employed drivers in company trucks and by owner-operators.
−Removed: These services are executed through either network or dedicated contracts and include standard long-haul and regional shipping services primarily using dry van, bulk, temperature-controlled, and flat-bed equipment, as well as cross dock and customized solutions for high-value and time-sensitive loads with coverage throughout North America.
−Removed: • Intermodal – which consists of door-to-door container on flat car (“COFC”) service through a combination of rail and dray transportation, in association with our rail carrier providers.
−Removed: Our intermodal service uses company-owned containers, chassis, and trucks with primarily company dray drivers, augmented by third-party dray capacity.
−Removed: • Logistics – which consists of freight brokerage (including Power Only which leverages our nationwide trailer pools to match capacity with demand), supply chain (including 3PL), warehousing, and import/export services.
−Removed: Our logistics business provides value-added services using both our assets and third-party capacity, augmented by our trailing assets, to manage and move our customers’ freight.
−Removed: Our business is seasonal across each of our segments which generally translates to our reported revenues being the lowest in the first quarter and highest in the fourth quarter.
+Added: • Truckload – Over the road freight transportation via dry van, bulk, temperature-controlled, and flat-bed trailers across either network or dedicated configurations.
+Added: Freight is transported and delivered by our company-employed drivers in company trucks and by owner-operators with company-owned trailers and executed through long-haul or regional services, including customized solutions for high-value and time-sensitive loads throughout North America.
+Added: • Intermodal – Door-to-door container on flat car service through a combination of rail and dray transportation, in association with our rail providers.
+Added: Our intermodal business uses company-owned containers, chassis, and trucks with primarily company dray drivers, augmented by third-party dray capacity.
+Added: • Logistics – Asset-light freight brokerage (including both traditional brokerage and Power Only services which leverage our nationwide company-owned trailer pools to match third-party capacity with customer demand), supply chain (including 3PL), warehousing, and import/export services.
+Added: Our logistics business provides value-added services using both our assets and third-party capacity, augmented by our trailing assets, to manage and move customers’ freight.
+Added: Consistent with the transportation industry, our business can be seasonal across each of our segments, which generally translates to our reported revenues being the lowest in the first quarter and highest in the fourth quarter.
+Added: Operating expenses tend to be higher in the winter months, primarily due to colder weather, which causes higher maintenance expense and higher fuel consumption from increased idle time.
For more information on our reportable segments, see Note 14, Segment Reporting.
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We are driven by our uncompromising values to safely deliver goods that enhance the lives of people everywhere.
−Removed: We forge long-term relationships with key customers as an integral partner in, and extension of, their supply chains.
+Added: We forge long-term relationships with our customers as an integral partner in, and extension of, their supply chains.
Our strategy is based on delivering superior experiences to our customers utilizing an integrated, multimodal approach to provide capacity-oriented solutions centered on delivering customer value and industry-leading service.
−Removed: We believe our operating strategy adds value to customers, fuels our earnings, and generates returns to stockholders.
−Removed: We continually analyze opportunities for capital investment and effective capital deployment to provide additional benefits to our customers and increase returns for our shareholders.
+Added: We believe our operating strategy adds value to customers, fuels our earnings, and generates shareholder returns.
+Added: We continually analyze opportunities for capital investment and effective capital deployment to provide additional value for our customers and increase returns for our shareholders.
Business Developments
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and complements our growing dedicated operations.
−Removed: Because the acquisition closed on December 31, 2021, MLS did not have an impact on our consolidated results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2021.
−Removed: Refer to Note 2, Acquisition, for additional details.
−Removed: COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020.
−Removed: In response to the pandemic, the Company took steps to mitigate the potential risks posed by the pandemic and implemented measures to keep our associates, drivers, and owner-operators safe and minimize unnecessary risk of exposure to COVID-19.
−Removed: Safety and cybersecurity measures remain in place to ensure the well-being of our associates and that our systems are capable of serving our operational needs and providing uninterrupted service to our customers.
−Removed: Schneider continues to monitor the situation and will take further actions as may be required by federal, state, or local governmental authorities, or that we determine are in the best interests of our associates, customers, and shareholders.
+Added: In 2022, MLS financial results are reported in dedicated operations as part of our Truckload segment.
+Added: On June 7, 2022, the Company completed the acquisition of deBoer, which provided us the opportunity to expand our tractor and trailer fleet primarily within our dedicated Truckload operations, as well as our company driver capacity.
+Added: During the second half of 2022, the Company successfully transitioned equipment and employees from deBoer to Schneider, deBoer operations ceased, and drivers and equipment were deployed primarily within Truckload.
+Added: Refer to Note 2, Acquisitions, for additional details on our recent acquisitions.
+Added: Foreign Operations
+Added: During the first quarter of 2022, the Company announced a change in approach to servicing Canada and the sale of its Guelph, Ontario facility, which resulted in the recognition of a net gain of $50.9 million in operating supplies and expenses—net in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income.
+Added: The Company still engages in the movement of cross-border Canadian freight, but no longer has Canadian-based operations.
+Added: On November 30, 2022, the Company sold 100% of its China-based logistics operations to certain members of the Company’s local management team in China as those operations were no longer profitable or strategic.
+Added: The sale resulted in the recognition of a $5.0 million loss, which was recorded within operating supplies and expenses—net in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income.
+Added: This sale is not expected to have a material effect on our results of operations or consolidated financial statements.
Industry and Competition
−Removed: The trucking industry is at the core of the U.S.
+Added: The trucking industry plays a vital role in providing both growth and stability in the U.S.
economy and moves the vast majority of freight volume in the U.S.
−Removed: It is a highly competitive and fragmented industry, characterized by many small carriers.
+Added: It is a highly competitive and fragmented industry, characterized by numerous small carriers.
Increased regulations and initiatives to improve the safety and reduce emissions of the U.S.
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While we compete with many smaller carriers on a regional basis, only a limited number of carriers represent competition in all markets across North America.
−Removed: The domestic intermodal segment is highly consolidated, where the top three intermodal providers, including our Intermodal segment, operate a significant portion of the U.S.
+Added: The domestic intermodal segment is highly consolidated amongst three of the largest intermodal providers, including our Intermodal segment, and operates a significant portion of the U.S.
domestic container fleet.
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The logistics industry is a large, fast-growing, and fragmented market that represents an integral part of the global economy.
−Removed: Transportation asset owners often provide logistics services to meet excess demand and provide customers with greater breadth of services which results in our Logistics segment competing with other logistics companies and brokerage businesses and, to a lesser extent, other truckload carriers.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2021, we offered our services to approximately 8,500 customers across our portfolio, including nearly 200 Fortune 500 companies, and 24 of our top 25 customers used services from all three of our reportable segments.
+Added: Logistics plans, implements, and controls the movement and storage of goods, generally using the assets of others.
+Added: Our Logistics segment competes with other logistics companies, brokerage businesses, and truckload carriers.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2022, we offered our services to approximately 8,300 customers across our portfolio, including nearly 150 Fortune 500 companies, and all of our top 25 customers used services from all three of our reportable segments.
Our Logistics segment manages over 64,000 qualified carrier relationships and managed approximately $3.0 billion of third-party freight in 2022.
−Removed: Our broad portfolio helps limit customer and industry concentration as we receive revenue from a diversified customer base.
−Removed: We maintain a broad end-market footprint, encompassing over ten distinct industries including general merchandise, chemicals, electronics and appliances, and food and beverage.
−Removed: Our diversified revenue mix and customer base allow for revenue and yield management stability throughout the year, despite the fact that many of our customers are affected by seasonal fluctuations.
−Removed: Revenue Equipment
−Removed: Our company owned revenue equipment fleet was comprised of the following at December 31, 2021:
−Removed: Revenue Equipment Type Approximate Number of Units
+Added: Our revenue is derived from a diverse customer base.
+Added: We maintain a broad end-market footprint, encompassing numerous industries including consumer products, retail, chemicals, electronics and appliances, e-commerce, auto, home improvement, and food and beverage.
+Added: Our diversified revenue mix and customer base allow for revenue and yield management stability throughout the year, despite the fact that many of our customers are also affected by seasonal fluctuations.
+Added: Transportation Equipment
+Added: Our company-owned transportation equipment fleet was comprised of the following at December 31, 2022:
+Added: Transportation Equipment Type Approximate Number of Units
Over-the-road sleeper cab tractors 7,300
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Chassis 21,000
−Removed: The table above excludes approximately 900 tractors and 3,600 trailers owned by MLS, which was acquired effective December 31, 2021.
Human Capital Management
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Associates and Workforce
−Removed: As of December 31, 2021, we employed approximately 16,050 associates (exclusive of MLS associates), 67% of whom are drivers with the remaining 33% consisting of mechanics and warehouse personnel, managers, and other corporate office associates.
−Removed: With the acquisition of MLS on December 31, 2021, roughly 1,000 associates were added.
+Added: As of December 31, 2022, we employed approximately 17,050 associates, 67% of whom are drivers with the remaining 33% consisting of mechanics and warehouse personnel, managers, and other corporate office associates.
Approximately 16% of our associates are based at our headquarters in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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• Company drivers - As a result of retirements, high turnover rates, and the challenges of attracting new drivers, the industry and the long-haul truckload sector, in particular, have been characterized by persistent shortages of truck drivers.
−Removed: Recognizing the indispensable role that our drivers play in the ability to serve our customers, we remain focused on making our driver experience the best in the industry.
+Added: Recognizing the essential role that our drivers play in the ability to serve our customers, we remain focused on making our driver experience the best in the industry.
We employ measures to improve retention, and our turnover rate is generally consistent with the industry standard.
−Removed: Those measures include establishing monthly hiring targets, offering drivers competitive salaries and benefits, establishing driver pay scales which provide for increasing pay by experience level and performance, offering both live and remote driver training by experienced driving instructors, maintaining a modern truck fleet with the latest safety technology, and improving the overall driver experience.
−Removed: • Non-driver Company associates - Our warehouse personnel, managers, and other corporate office associates help to facilitate and coordinate service to customers, ensure equipment is operational and well maintained, and generally support our operations.
+Added: Those measures include offering drivers competitive salaries and benefits, establishing driver pay scales which provide for increasing pay by experience level and performance, offering both live and remote driver training by experienced driving instructors, and maintaining a modern truck fleet with the latest safety technology, all of which focus on improving the overall driver experience.
+Added: • Non-driver Company associates - Our mechanics, warehouse personnel, managers, and other corporate office associates help to facilitate and coordinate service to customers, ensure equipment is operational and well-maintained, and generally support our operations.
As we strive to offer best-in-class service to our customers, we focus on hiring top talent and providing them with opportunities for development and growth within their roles and throughout the organization.
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‘Respect for All’ is one of our four core values.
−Removed: We embrace and seek out diversity that is inclusive of thought, race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, experience, and background.
−Removed: We have established Cultural Connections, an internal group committed to educating ourselves and coworkers on topics that pertain to who we are, and in 2021, we were named a “Top Company for Women to Work for in Transportation” by Redefining the Road, the official magazine of the Women in Trucking Association (WIT).
+Added: We embrace and seek diversity that is inclusive of thought, race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, experience, and background.
+Added: Furthering our Company’s diversity goals and objectives has been incorporated into the selection of and performance management process for our leaders and associates.
+Added: We have also established Cultural Connections, an internal group committed to educating ourselves and coworkers on ongoing social issues and fostering interpersonal relationships across cultures both at Schneider and in the community, and in 2022, we were named a “Best Employer for Women” and a “Best Employer for Diversity” by Forbes.
“Safety first and always” is a Schneider core value.
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We hire both experienced drivers and drivers new to the industry through a comprehensive hiring process.
−Removed: As part of that process, we voluntarily choose to use hair follicle testing in addition to mandated urine-based drug testing.
−Removed: While costing more per driver, hair follicle testing is generally more accurate than urine-based testing.
+Added: As part of that process, we voluntarily choose to use hair testing in addition to mandated urine-based drug testing.
+Added: While costing more per driver, hair testing is generally more accurate than urine-based testing.
• Military drivers .
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Driving behavior is electronically monitored, alerts are provided to the driver situationally, and performance is documented for subsequent coaching.
−Removed: We also employ electronic logging in an effort to ensure HOS compliance and reduce fatigue occurrences.
+Added: We also employ electronic logging to improve HOS compliance and reduce fatigue occurrences.
• Active management .
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At Schneider, we define sustainability broadly as safe and responsible practices that strengthen the economy and create a safer world.
−Removed: We seek to accomplish this by maintaining a modern fleet to maximize fuel efficiency, leveraging our intermodal service to convert loads from truck to rail, consolidating freight whenever possible, and introducing technologies to coordinate the movement of products timely, safely, and efficiently.
+Added: We seek to accomplish this by maintaining a modern fleet to maximize fuel and energy efficiency, leveraging our intermodal service to convert loads from truck to rail, consolidating freight whenever possible, and continuing to introduce technologies to coordinate the movement of products timely, safely, and efficiently.
Additionally, we continue to evaluate alternative fuel vehicles, and our efforts to improve overall fleet fuel efficiency and reduce GHG emissions are ongoing.
−Removed: In 2022, we will begin adding a limited number of battery-electric zero emission trucks to our fleet to contribute toward the Company’s goal of cutting its carbon dioxide emissions by 7.5% per mile by 2025 and 60% per mile by 2035.
−Removed: We are an EPA SmartWay® Transport Partner and are proud
−Removed: to be one of only four freight carriers to receive the EPA’s SmartWay® Excellence Award each year since the award was created.
+Added: We are in the process of adding nearly 100 Class 8 battery-electric zero emission trucks to our California fleet to contribute toward the Company’s goal of cutting its carbon dioxide emissions by 7.5% per mile by 2025 and 60% per mile by 2035, and we continue to look for opportunities to expand our battery-electric fleet.
+Added: In addition to efforts to make our fleet more efficient and reduce emissions, we are focused on improving sustainability at our operating facilities including upgrading to high-efficiency lighting, enhancing existing programs for recycling motor oil, tires, and batteries, and building a new innovation center that will leverage geothermal energy and solar energy to maximize resource efficiency.
+Added: We are an EPA SmartWay® Transport Partner and are proud to be one of only four freight carriers to receive the EPA’s SmartWay® Award of Excellence each year since the award was created.
We were the first company to receive the National Safety Council’s Green Cross for Safety Award for two consecutive years.
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In 2022, we made 99% of our fuel purchases through negotiated volume purchase discounts.
−Removed: We store fuel in underground storage tanks at six locations and in above-ground storage tanks at one location.
+Added: We store fuel in underground storage tanks at five locations and in above-ground storage tanks at two locations.
We believe that we are in substantive compliance with applicable environmental laws relating to the storage of fuel.
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As an additional measure, we leverage fuel consumption metrics in evaluating drivers’ performance, and drivers utilize a fuel optimizer program where they purchase fuel at the most cost-effective locations based on distance to empty and fuel purchase commitments.
+Added: We seek to find ways to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions including increasing the fuel efficiency of our current fleet, exploring alternative fuel vehicles, and deploying BEVs.
+Added: In recent years, we invested in our existing diesel fleet to improve truck aerodynamics, reduce trailer drag, and implement electric-powered heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems, which translates to emissions reductions and fuel savings.
+Added: We are currently exploring alternative fuel vehicles, including hydrogen vehicles, and are in the process of adding nearly 100 BEVs to our fleet which will replace existing diesel trucks and reduce our diesel fuel usage.
Our operations as a for-hire motor carrier are regulated and licensed by various federal, state, and local government agencies in North America, including the U.S.
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These regulatory authorities have broad powers over matters relating to authorized motor carrier operations, as well as motor carrier registration, safety and fitness of transportation equipment and drivers, transportation of hazardous materials, certain mergers and acquisitions, and periodic financial reporting.
−Removed: Our driver associates and owner-operators must also comply with enacted governmental regulations regarding safety, equipment, and operating methods.
+Added: Our driver associates and owner-operators must also comply with carrier qualifications and enacted governmental regulations regarding safety, equipment, and operating methods.
Examples include the DOT regulation of equipment weight, equipment dimensions, driver HOS, drug and alcohol testing of our current and prospective driver associates, as well as other driver eligibility requirements, on-board reporting of operations, and ergonomics.
−Removed: The FMCSA Commercial Driver’s License Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse rule (“Clearinghouse”) requires employers to report information related to violations of the drug and alcohol regulation for current and prospective driver employees and to query the Clearinghouse for such driver employees before allowing them to operate a commercial motor vehicle on public roads, as well as at least annually for current drivers.
−Removed: In addition, we are subject to compliance with cargo-security and transportation regulations issued by the Transportation Security Administration (“TSA”) and Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) within the DHS, and our cross-border operations in Canada and Mexico are subject to regulation by each of those countries.
+Added: The FMCSA Clearinghouse rule requires employers to report information related to violations of the drug and alcohol regulation for current and prospective driver employees and to query the Clearinghouse for such driver employees before allowing them to operate a commercial motor vehicle on public roads, as well as at least annually for current drivers.
+Added: In addition, we are subject to compliance with cargo-security and transportation regulations issued by the Transportation Security Administration and Customs and Border Protection within the DHS, and our cross-border operations in Canada and Mexico are subject to regulation by each of those countries.
We are subject to various environmental laws and regulations dealing with, among other aspects of our operations, the handling of hazardous materials, underground fuel storage tanks at our terminals, emissions from our vehicles and facilities, engine idling, and discharge and retention of storm water.
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The EPA and the NHTSA have also begun taking coordinated steps in support of a new generation of clean vehicles and engines to reduce GHG emissions.
−Removed: Complying with these and any future GHG regulations enacted by California’s Air Resources Board, the EPA, the NHTSA, and/or any other state or federal governing body has increased and will likely continue to increase the cost of our new tractors, may increase the cost of new trailers, may require us to retrofit certain of our trailers, may increase our maintenance costs, and could impair equipment productivity and increase our operating costs, particularly if such costs are not offset by potential fuel savings.
+Added: Complying with these and any future GHG regulations enacted by the CARB, EPA, NHTSA, and/or any other state or federal governing body has increased and will likely continue to increase the cost of our new tractors, may increase the cost of new trailers, may require us to retrofit certain of our trailers, may increase our maintenance costs, and could impair equipment productivity and increase our operating costs, particularly if such costs are not offset by potential fuel savings.
These adverse effects, combined with the uncertainty as to the reliability of the newly designed diesel engines and the residual values of our equipment, could materially increase our costs or otherwise adversely affect our business or operations.
−Removed: We cannot predict, however, the extent to which our operations and productivity will be impacted.
+Added: However, we cannot predict the extent to which our operations and productivity will be impacted.
We will continue monitoring our compliance with federal and state GHG regulations.
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The proposals could potentially limit carbon emissions within certain states and municipalities, which would restrict the location and amount of time that diesel-powered tractors may idle.
−Removed: Such proposals could result in a decrease in productivity or increase driver turnover.
+Added: Such proposals could result in decreased productivity or increased driver turnover.
Regulatory requirements and changes in regulatory requirements may affect our business or the economics of the industry by requiring changes in operating practices that could influence the demand for and increase the costs of providing transportation services.
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Additionally, we continue to monitor and evaluate the proposed rule makings of the DOT, FMCSA, NHTSA, EPA, State of California, and other federal and state regulatory agencies to determine the expected impact on our operations.
−Removed: Our in-cab telematics platform delivers on-board technology through our private application store to enable communication, regulatory compliance, and driver productivity needs.
+Added: Our business is executed through an integrated technology platform that encompasses an end-to-end process design which focuses on information accessibility across our value chain.
+Added: Our platform enables an integrated approach to cash processing including load/order acceptance based on driver and network optimization, vehicle dispatch, continuous quote monitoring, and visibility to loads from pick-up to delivery and customer collection.
+Added: Proprietary decision support tools are embedded throughout the platform and assist our associates in making the right trade-offs to drivers’ needs for earnings and work-life balance, customers’ needs for reliable capacity and service, and our business and its shareholders’ needs for an adequate return.
+Added: Decision support tools improve our ability to, among other things, situationally coach drivers, minimize fuel costs, and maintain the fleet in the most cost-effective manner to maximize shareholder value.
+Added: Schneider FreightPower® digitally connects the benefits of our integrated technology platform with the strength of our trailer network and carrier relationships to service our customers.
+Added: We continue to expand our business capabilities by extending our foundational integrated technology platform, making advancements to our in-cab technology, and leveraging mobile applications to better connect with company drivers and customers.
+Added: One example is a mobile application that prompts our company drivers to rate the shipping, receiving, and driver support locations they visit.
+Added: Our gathering and sharing of this information with customers and providers have been well received and are driving action to improve the drivers' experience.
+Added: Additionally, through our investment in MLSI, in which we are collaborating to develop a TMS using MLSI’s SaaS technology, we aim to further complement our technology platform and enable enhanced decision making, resource allocation, and visibility for our supply chain partners.
+Added: During 2022, we successfully transitioned our Power Only business to MLSI’s TMS and are in the process of converting the remainder of our Logistics business.
+Added: Our in-cab telematics platform delivers on-board technology through our private application store to enable communication, regulatory compliance, and driver productivity.
This comprehensive platform includes message capabilities, applications that scan and automate paperwork, and customer and location specific step-by-step work assignments.
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All tractor technology interfaces with the in-cab device and provides the driver and the driver’s leader with real-time performance data.
−Removed: Our business is executed through an integrated technology platform that encompasses an end-to-end process design which focuses on information accessibility across our value chain.
−Removed: Our platform enables an integrated approach to cash processing including load/order acceptance based on driver and network optimization, vehicle dispatch, continuous quote monitoring, and visibility to the load from pick-up to delivery and customer collection.
−Removed: Proprietary decision support tools are embedded throughout the platform and assist our associates in making the right trade-offs among drivers’ needs for earnings and work-life balance, customers’ needs for reliable capacity and service, and our business and its shareholders’ needs for an adequate return.
−Removed: Decision support tools improve our ability to, among other things, situationally coach drivers, minimize fuel costs, and maintain the fleet in the most cost-effective manner.
−Removed: Schneider FreightPower® digitally connects the benefits of Quest with the strength of our trailer network and carrier relationships to service our customers.
−Removed: We continue to expand our business capabilities by extending our foundational Quest platform, making advancements to our in-cab technology, and leveraging mobile applications to better connect with company drivers and customers.
−Removed: One example is a mobile application that prompts our company drivers to rate the shipping, receiving, and driver support locations that they visit.
−Removed: Our gathering and sharing of this information with customers and providers have been well received and are driving action to improve the drivers' experience.
−Removed: Additionally, through our investment in MLSI, in which we are collaborating to develop a Transportation Management System using MLSI’s SaaS technology, we aim to further complement our technology platform and enable enhanced decision making, resource allocation, and visibility with our supply chain partners.
+Added: We are constantly reevaluating our existing technology to find efficiencies and drive innovation, with some of our current efforts focused on exploring autonomous trucking and additional safety technologies.
Available Information
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The “Investors” section of our website also contains corporate governance guidelines, our code of ethics, Board committee charters, and other corporate policies.
−Removed: In addition, our website contains information on our sustainability goals, including a copy of our Corporate Responsibility Report.
+Added: In addition, our website contains information on our sustainability goals, including our Corporate Responsibility Report.
The information on our website is not, and shall not be deemed to be, a part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K or incorporated into any other filings we make with the SEC.
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