Selling or buying a logistics business
Asset-light margins with sticky customers — if the customers are actually sticky.
If you own one
Thinking about selling your logistics business?
Freight brokerage, 3PL and warehousing businesses can be excellent to sell because the margins are asset-light and the customer relationships are sticky. The question a buyer will press hardest is whether those relationships belong to the company or to individual salespeople who could leave with them. Getting agreements and account coverage right before going to market directly protects your price.
What raises the price
- Warehousing and 3PL agreements with term remaining and renewal history
- A customer base spread across accounts and account managers
- A TMS or WMS a buyer can inspect, with clean margin reporting
- Non-solicitation and employment agreements that actually hold
- Carrier and capacity relationships broader than a single partner
What a buyer will discount
- Customer relationships owned by individual salespeople
- Month-to-month warehousing with no contractual term
- Margin compression that has not been explained
- Leased space with a term shorter than the customer agreements it houses
None of this is a reason to wait. Most of these are fixable, and knowing which ones apply to you is exactly what a valuation is for.
What is my logistics business worth?
Nine questions, an indicative range on screen, and a scorecard showing which value drivers you already have and which are costing you money. No cost, no obligation, and nothing is published.
Get a free valuationPrefer to talk it through first? Use the form below — it reaches a person, not a queue.
If you want to buy one
Looking to acquire a logistics business?
Look for contracted warehousing with real term, a carrier network that is not one relationship deep, and account managers under agreement. Broker books that sit with one salesperson are fragile.
Not sure you are ready to compete? Take the readiness check — two minutes, and it tells you exactly what sellers compare buyers on.
Get told before it is listed
Most good businesses in this sector are placed with a prepared buyer before they are ever publicly advertised. Buyers on file hear first. It costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Register what you are looking forStart the conversation
Tell us which one you are
Whether you own a logistics business or want to buy one, this is the same first step: a short, confidential conversation with a person who has done this before.
- Read personally — never a shared inbox or an auto-responder
- Confidential. We do not contact your employees, customers or competitors
- No cost and no obligation to do anything with the answer
- You can leave anything blank and fill it in later
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Everything you send is treated as confidential. It is read by the person you addressed it to, used only to respond to you, and never sold, shared with foreign entities or used for unsolicited marketing. We do not contact your employees, customers, suppliers or competitors.
Want it in writing first? Say so and we will send a non-disclosure agreement for signature before anything specific is discussed. Plenty of owners prefer that, and nobody is offended by being asked.
Submitting this form does not create a legally binding agreement, an engagement, or a confidentiality obligation on its own — it starts a conversation. Anything binding is a document both sides sign.
Questions owners actually ask
Logistics & Warehousing: the questions we get
How do I sell my logistics or 3PL business?
By demonstrating that the customer relationships belong to the company. We help document that, value the business confidentially, and approach buyers who understand asset-light logistics economics.
What is a freight brokerage worth?
It varies enormously with customer stickiness and who controls the accounts. Gross margin quality, customer spread and enforceable agreements move the number more than revenue. The valuation is free and confidential.
Do I need to tell my customers I am selling?
Not during marketing. The business is presented anonymously and buyers are qualified under a confidentiality agreement. Customer conversations happen at the right point, with a plan.
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Start with a number, not a decision
A complimentary, confidential valuation tells you what your logistics business would be worth today and what is holding it back. Whether you act on it is entirely up to you.