J.B. Hunt CEO calls for courageous collaboration to transform industry [Video]

J.B. Hunt President and CEO Shelley Simpson began her keynote at this year’s F3: Future of Freight Festival by recalling a defining moment in logistics industry history: the famed 1989 handshake between J.B. Hunt himself and Mike Haverty, then-president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

That handshake heralded a collaboration that would permanently change the way the industry thinks about collaboration. As a result, the first intermodal shipment took place in February 1990.

Since that time, J.B. Hunt has continued to embrace both intermodal shipping itself and the spirit of collaboration that made it possible. Last year, J.B. Hunt partnered with BNSF to launch Quantum, a breakthrough option that makes intermodal a viable option for service-sensitive freight. 

Quantum customers are currently seeing on-time service rates over 99%, according to Simpson. The solution’s success is another testament to the power of industry collaboration.

By offering an intermodal solution that is truly …