Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Schneider National Carriers, Inc. is the principal U.S. trucking subsidiary of Schneider National, Inc. (NYSE: SNDR), a Nevada corporation with headquarters in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The parent was founded in 1935 by Al Schneider and went public in an IPO in 2017; it was added to the S&P SmallCap 600 in July 2024. Schneider National is a public company (no separate listed parent). Per its FY2024 Form 10-K, the company employed roughly 19,400 associates and reported about $5.3 billion in revenue for 2024 (roughly $5.7 billion TTM into 2025), with a market capitalization in the $6 billion range.
Operations. Schneider is among the largest North American multimodal surface transportation and logistics providers, operating three reportable segments: Truckload (over-the-road freight via dry van, bulk, temperature-controlled, and flatbed trailers, in dedicated and network configurations); Intermodal (door-to-door container-on-flatcar service with company-owned containers, chassis, and dray tractors, in association with major North American rail carriers); and Logistics (asset-light freight brokerage, Power Only, supply chain/3PL, warehousing, and import/export services, drawing on a network of over 20,700 qualified third-party carriers). Wholly owned subsidiaries also lease equipment to owner-operators (Schneider Finance) and provide driver insurance. Fleet size is roughly 12,500 trucks.
Patent-litigation posture. Schneider National Carriers appears in the tracked data only as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case), consistent with an operating company defending against third-party patent assertions rather than asserting patents itself. The sole tracked suit is Fleet Connect Solutions LLC v. Schneider National Carriers Inc., filed 2024-12-04 in the C.D. Cal.
Context. Fleet Connect Solutions LLC is characterized in public sources (Unified Patents, Stanford NPE Litigation Database, RPX) as a non-practicing entity/patent assertion entity associated with Empire IP LLC. Its acquired portfolio covers wireless/WLAN and OFDM communications technology (e.g., U.S. Patent 7,742,388), and it has asserted against numerous fleet-telematics, ELD, and transportation defendants, including Geotab, Motive, PowerFleet, Platform Science, Teletrac Navman, Werner Enterprises, Knight-Swift, and C.R. England.
Fleet Connect Solutions LLC sued Schneider National Carriers Inc. U.S. Patent No. 7,741,968 is among the patents asserted; the case is stayed pending the Platform Science declaratory-judgment action.