What Schneider’s CEO Sees Next for Trucking

Schneider CEO Jim Filter breaks down the freight market outlook, trucking demand and what carriers should watch next. In this FW Today interview, Filter sits down with Craig Fuller and Julie Van de Kamp to talk through the cycle, operating conditions and the signals that matter for fleets, brokers and shippers. If you want the executive view from one of trucking’s biggest players, this is the takeaway fast. Capacity and demand in the truckload market are “relatively tight” after seven to eight months of intensifying regulatory enforcement pulled a significant number of trucks from the road, Schneider CEO Jim Filter said in a recent interview. Filter said the crackdown on non-domiciled CDLs, lax ELD compliance, and inadequate driver training created an “atmosphere for risk” that drove truck crash fatalities higher even as large carriers were improving their own safety records — and that regulators are not finished.