"What it's not meant to be is, 'hey, I have a service problem with my intermodal business, upgrade it to Quantum.' That's not what it's for. It's customized, it's agile. So we may truck a load by design a day or two a week because that's what the customer supply chain needs, while intermodal is the right answer for three days of the week. Or maybe we're watching the network and there's a weather event in Montana and the trains. There's a mudslide, there's flooding, there's something that might cause a delay. So we pivot to trucking the load for that customer. When it moves intermodal, there's an intermodal rate on it when it moves highway, there's a highway rate on it." - Darren Field on Quantum service at the Baird conference.
Moments ago, we took to the FreightWaves stage alongside BNSF Railway to announce Quantum, a breakthrough intermodal solution. Quantum provides the consistency, agility and speed needed to transport service-sensitive highway freight using rail.
The Quantum team will be comprised of both J.B. Hunt and BNSF operators housed together at a new Intermodal Innovation Center at BNSF headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas. With 24/7 oversight of every Quantum load, the team can quickly detect and resolve issues before they impact final delivery.
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