Thinking about selling your freight and logistics business to an active PE buyer in Ontario?
A private, confidential way to find out whether your freight and logistics business fits an active buyer, without a public listing, a broker blast, or your team finding out.
Private and confidential, never a public listing.
No broker blast, and never an automatic introduction.
A real conversation only if there is genuine fit.
active buyers are looking for businesses like yours businesses right now.
These are approved buyer mandates, counted live. Nothing about your business is disclosed, and no buyer sees you unless you say so.
Free, private, and a human reviews the fit before anything is shared.
What a buyer actually checks
For-hire trucking, freight brokerage, courier, or third-party logistics
Contracted lanes or repeat shippers rather than spot-only freight
Driver and owner-operator retention with a workable safety record
Ontario market intelligence
Ontario is Canada's freight gateway, and that shapes who buys logistics businesses here. The 401 corridor, the Windsor-Detroit and Niagara border crossings, and port access at Hamilton make it the country's highest-volume trucking and 3PL market — so the active buyers are national carriers consolidating regional operators, U.S. logistics firms building a Canadian foothold, and private-equity platforms rolling up capacity.
What moves the needle in an Ontario deal is the quality of the freight, not the size of the fleet. Buyers pay up for contracted lanes with automotive-parts suppliers, food distributors, and cross-border shippers, because those customers churn slowly and reprice less than spot freight. Diligence here centers on driver classification (employee versus owner-operator), CVOR and safety standing, and how much revenue rides on a single shipper.
Common questions
Can Serava tell me what my freight and logistics business is worth in Ontario?
Serava does not promise a valuation, price, buyer, sale, or timeline. The private buyer-fit review organizes the evidence a serious owner may need before any valuation discussion, including revenue quality, customer concentration, owner dependence, and revenue quality.
Can I check buyer interest without a public listing?
Yes. The seller path is built for a private buyer-fit review, not a public listing or broad broker blast. Real contact details are required so confidentiality, owner approval, and next-step fit can be handled manually before any appropriate conversation.
Is this a broker alternative for Freight And Logistics Business owners?
It can help owners compare options before committing to a process, but it is not a brokerage engagement, representation agreement, valuation opinion, or promise to replace an advisor. The goal is to understand buyer-interest signal and evidence quality first.
One private step tells you:
- Whether an active buyer actually matches your business
- How you would be positioned, a confidential read, not a sales pitch
- A warm introduction, only if you want it, only if the fit is real
Most owners sell once, and either hand a broker 8–10% or take the first unsolicited offer. Knowing who is already buying, before you list, is your leverage. We never publish your business, never blast brokers, and never introduce you automatically.
~2 minutes · no public listing · no obligation · you pay nothing unless you choose to move forward.
Worth/value proof
What serious buyers want to understand
Revenue by customer type, recurring or repeat demand, gross margin trend, concentration, and working-capital pressure.
Manager depth, owner role, employee retention, license coverage, customer handoff risk, and process documentation.
Before you talk to a buyer
What buyers check in this industry, what moves the multiple, and what to fix first:
- How to Sell a Trucking or Logistics Business
- Selling a Trucking or Logistics Business in Ontario: What Buyers Pay For
Deal terms, explained
The vocabulary usually arrives all at once, in a letter of intent, with a deadline attached. Plain-English definitions of what each term actually does to your proceeds:
All 44terms in the M&A glossary