Mergers and Acquisitions

1. Ahern represents clients in the painstaking process of merging people, facilities, procedures and systems.
    
2. Ahern locates companies that, historically, are not for sale
    
3. Ahern represents transportation Buyers who are looking for strategic and/or capacity purchases.

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Leveraged/Management Buyout

1. If there is no generation to inherit a business or no satisfactory outside Buyer “knocking on the door,” Ahern has a program to continue the business with a sale to management or an employee group.

Operational Review/Audit

1. Ahern has a staff of “seasoned” transportation specialists, ex-presidents and chief executive officers whose experience allows them to seek out and identify all possible savings of time and money as well as opportunities for revenue and capital enhancement.
    
2. Ahern specializes in companies that are facing bankruptcy protection from creditors.

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Reorganization

1. Ahern & Associates has successfully assisted numerous companies in avoiding the bankruptcy “route.”
    
2. Ahern’s customized restructuring plan includes certain basic elements, such as a “45-day window” in which cash hemorrhaging is stopped, critical personnel changes are initiated, and operating procedures are addressed to reduce costs.

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Bankruptcy/Reorganization

1. If bankruptcy cannot be avoided, Ahern offers techniques to pre-package the proceedings, so that a client emerges, when able, to achieve operational and financial health.
    
2. Ahern works directly with its clients’ legal and accounting firm to make sure that the trucking company is able to “exit” cash flow and service their debt going forward.

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Professional Employer Organization (PEO)/Employer Leasing

1. Ahern has been involved with Professional Employer Organizations since 1983. Ahern represents the customer, not the PEO in reference to establishing and integrating a plan that will reduce such direct costs as Workers’ Compensation, Unemployment Insurance and Health Benefits.

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Estate Planning

1. Ahern works with accountants and lawyers to evaluate a company based on current market conditions.
    
   
2. Our reviews are based on first hand knowledge of the selling prices of numerous trucking companies.

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Cost and Profitability Analysis

1. Ahern has developed a special software package that can create an operating ratio for each truck dispatch, whether it’s truckload or less than truckload.
    
2. The program allocates total cost, including direct, indirect, administrative, and overhead for each shipment, trip, or any other party or business that you analyze.

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Company Evaluations

1. As a transportation management consulting company, Ahern has ongoing and substantial expertise in evaluating trucking companies. Whether you’re interested in successor planning or you need a factual analysis of the true net worth of your trucking company, Ahern provides that service. Our reviews are based upon first hand knowledge of the selling prices of numerous trucking companies that are not readily available to accountants, attorneys, investment bankers and/or the IRS.

New Capital Formation

1. The investment climate of the new millennium years has created a limited number of transportation investors who will provide short term capital.
    
2. Ahern & Associates has such clients that they work with on a daily basis.
    
3. Because of Ahern’s “sphere of influence,” Ahern can introduce these customers to companies whose profiles match their customers’ objectives.

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Goals and Objectives

1. Ahern’s entire focus is on transportation and transportation related companies. Ahern can assist companies in redirecting their efforts to get them to the success level that they desire. Ahern is able to assist the company in developing goals, objectives, and targets along with providing analysis on the company’s intellectual capital.
   

Ahern Advisor

1. The Ahern Advisory is a national trucking publication written by the Ahern companies covering pertinent topics and information related to the transportation industry.
    
2. The publication is provided to all Ahern clients on a bi-monthly basis and is also available on Ahern’s website: www.Ahern-ltd.com.
    
3. The newsletter provides pertinent information in areas such as mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and various regulatory acts that are pertinent to the trucking industry.

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Bio

1. A.W. Ahern, provides an overview of the extensive experience he’s accumulated in his 35+ years in the transportation industry.
    
2. Mr. Ahern has received numerous awards and has had numerous articles written about him in trade publications.
    
3. He was recently a recipient of the National Leadership Award presented by George W. Bush and was also a recipient of the Ronald Reagan Award.

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