UPS, or the United Parcel Service, has decided to give away their truckload and LTL businesses to TFI International for $800 million. The deal is likely to complete in the second quarter in 2021.

Firstly, this was no simple choice, considering the decision came after an evaluation of UPS’s portfolio. Selling off UPS Freight was perfectly in-bounds with the current mantra that they already have with their strategic positioning. Of course, the company still has over 27,000 tractor-trailers active in its vary particular parcel delivery service. It retains such an amount, along with Coyote Logistics, the cargo airline.

UPS CEO Carol Tomé believes that “UPS can be more laser-focused on core attributes of [the] business that can therefore drive the greatest value for our customers.”

Pretty much 90% of acquired business will operate freely within TFI International’s LTL Business segment under “TForce Freight.”

United Parcel Service and TFI are additionally entering an agreement for UPS Freight to go on utilizing their homecourt advantage for shipment processes within the next five years. They are entering this very strategic transaction in hopes of strengthening service offerings to customers as well as their relationship with other freight companies. The strategy, as follows, is to operate independent business units with higher levels of accountability than before.

Therefore, the idea is that UPS will keep giving freight volumes. As well as other services to TForce Freight, post-transaction for at least five years. They also want to expand to network opportunities to Canada. UPS Freight was able to generate about $3 billion in revenue in 2020 alone.

Therefore, they broke pretty even pretty fast from the perspective of operating income perspective. There are long-term opportunities available to improve TForce Freight’s operating margin. When and how they will be accessible is up to the future. Also, how this new division of powers is rises in the half-decade to come.