Schneider to Shutter Final Mile Delivery Business

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{"text":"\"Schneider Nation’s brief flirtation with last-mile home delivery has come to an end.\n\nAccording to various news reports and reporting by Paul Page at the Wall Street Journal, the Green Bay, Wisconsin, carrier is getting out of the Last Mile home delivery market of appliances and other oversized goods. According to Schneider officials, the attempt to tap into a consumer market fueled by growing e-commerce demand simply hasn’t worked out.\n\nCompany officials said that by the end of the year it will wind down operations in the First to Final Mile, or FTFM, business that it launched with two acquisitions three years ago.\n\n“This decision followed a careful assessment of the near and longer-term prospects and alternatives,” Mark Rourke, Schneider’s chief executive, said in a press statement.\n\nRead more: https://www.truckinginfo.com/337706/schneider-to-shutter-final-mile-delivery-business\"","videos":"[]","link":"{}","pics":"[]","canComment":true}