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...