Client 1: Looking to acquire freight brokers with $5MM - $50MM of annual revenue. Management must be willing to stay; buyer is a $200MM+ freight broker.

If you are a potential fit for this need or know of a potential match, please contact Andy Ahern directly at 602-242-1030 or email ahern@ahern-ltd.com for more information.

Client 2: Would like to acquire a $100MM+ air freight forwarder with EBITDA of $5MM - $20MM. Buyer is a private equity firm.

If you are a potential fit for this need or know of a potential match, please contact Andy Ahern directly at 602-242-1030 or email ahern@ahern-ltd.com for more information.

Client 3: Looking to acquire large freight brokers $100MM+ with strong EBITDA. Also looking for a non asset based dedicated carrier with revenues over $20MM+. Buyer is a $1 billion+ company.

If you are a potential fit for this need or know of a potential match, please contact Andy Ahern directly at 602-242-1030 or email ahern@ahern-ltd.com for more information.

Client 4: Seeking to acquire a profitable refrigerated carrier with $50MM - $200MM of annual revenue. Management must be strong with key management willing to stay. Buyer is a large trucking company looking to expand into the refrigeration market.

If you are a potential fit for this need or know of a potential match, please contact Andy Ahern directly at 602-242-1030 or email ahern@ahern-ltd.com for more information.

Client 5: Looking to acquire a specialized heavy haul trucking company in 11 Western states. Company must be profitable and considerate at least $20MM of revenue. Buyer is a private equity firm that owns a trucking company.

If you are a potential fit for this need or know of a potential match, please contact Andy Ahern directly at 602-242-1030 or email ahern@ahern-ltd.com for more information.

Client 6: Would like to acquire dedicated contract carriers with 3 – 5 year contracts. Buyer is a large trucking company that is 100% dedicated carriers.

If you are a potential fit for this need or know of a potential match, please contact Andy Ahern directly at 602-242-1030 or email ahern@ahern-ltd.com for more information.

Client 7: Buyer looking to acquire a small flatbed carrier $5MM - $10MM; owner must be willing to stay with the business.

If you are a potential fit for this need or know of a potential match, please contact Andy Ahern directly at 602-242-1030 or email ahern@ahern-ltd.com for more information.

Client 8:    Looking to acquire distressed companies. Buyer will pay an earn out based on growth and cost reductions. Buyer will bring capital to the deal.

If you are a potential fit for this need or know of a potential match, please contact Andy Ahern directly at 602-242-1030 or email ahern@ahern-ltd.com for more information.

Client 9:    Looking for captive agents to grow with established $60MM company. Client will provide working capital, insurance, billing, collections, client approval, etc. Agent split 70%/Parent company 30%  -commissions paid weekly.

If you are a potential fit for this need or know of a potential match, please contact Andy Ahern directly at 602-242-1030 or email ahern@ahern-ltd.com for more information.

Slow moving government spurs trucking executive into forming Block by Block to raise private and public funding to help Cedar Rapids recover from the Iowa floods of 2008—Ahern to aid in fundraising.

Phoenix, AZ—For nearly a month during the summer of 2008, the rivers flowing through eastern Iowa rose above their banks and flooded several Iowa towns; dubbing it as many would call it, “Iowa’s Katrina.” Hit hardest was the working community of Cedar Rapids, IA whose infrastructure and residential areas were all but destroyed.

Fast forward two years and not much has changed, homes still lay in shambles and are uninhabitable– leaving once thriving neighborhoods empty and on the verge of ghost town status.

On a recent business trip to Cedar Rapids, Andy Ahern, CEO of Ahern & Associates, LLC witnessed first-hand, the lingering devastation still plaguing the local residents and toured the area with John M. Smith, Chairman and owner of CRST International, Inc.

Unhappy with the subsidized rebuilding efforts, Smith helped form Block by Block, which takes a solutions based approach to identifying and aiding neighborhoods that wish to come back to life. Block by Block successfully reached its 2009 goal of rehabilitating eight residential blocks, with plans for sixteen additional blocks by the end of 2010.

Ahern has recently joined forces with Smith and Block by Block through personal contributions and by undertaking his own fund raising campaign targeting his extensive network of contacts within the trucking and logistics industries.

Ahern comments on Smiths efforts, “John has really taken a proactive approach to rebuilding his local community and I’m calling upon all of my colleagues within the transportation industry to join me in supporting Block by Block’s efforts.”

For additional information, please visit http://www.BlockbyBlockCR.org or send contributions directly to:

Block By Block
c/o Affordable Housing Network, Inc.
5400 Kirkwood Blvd.
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404

About Ahern & Associates, Ltd.:
Ahern and Associates is North America’s leading trucking and transportation management consulting firm.  The skilled consultants at Ahern and Associates specialize in mergers and acquisitions of trucking and logistics companies as well as the restructuring and evaluation of existing carriers that seek to increase operating efficiency and improve profitability.  Since 1987, Ahern and Associates has aided hundreds of buyers in the acquisition of trucking and logistics companies throughout the U.S. and Canada as well as assisting many transportation and logistics companies in reducing their overall operating costs and increasing their profitability.  For more information, please call 602-242-1030 or visit http://www.Ahern-Ltd.com

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