PE firm acquires Carrier Logistics, pledges AI overhaul

Todd Maiden

Mon, April 13, 2026 astatine 9:17 AM CDT 2 min read

Private equity steadfast STG announced it has acquired Carrier Logistics Inc. (CLI), a proscription absorption bundle supplier for less-than-truckload and last-mile fleets. STG said it volition money AI and different automation initiatives crossed the CLI network.

Elmsford, New York-based CLI has helped asset-based carriers way shipments and signifier regular workflows for implicit 50 years. Terminal networks are moving faster and generating monolithic amounts of information that accepted bundle simply stores alternatively than acts upon. STG’s concern aims to alteration that dynamic by backing an “AI-first” probe and improvement roadmap.

Financial presumption of the transaction were not disclosed.

“We judge the LTL manufacture is astatine an inflection constituent wherever information is plentiful, but actionable quality is scarce,” said Rushi Kulkarni, managing manager astatine STG. “Our extremity is to supply carriers with an agentic level that automates the mundane and optimizes the complex, keeping the quality relation astatine the halfway of the astir captious decisions.”

STG plans to rebuild CLI’s halfway architecture truthful the bundle tin execute decisions connected its own. The firm’s concern volition integrate agentic AI tools onto the platform, helping carriers successful terminal web configurations to automate operations. Enhanced capabilities volition see real-time autonomous dispatch and routing, and predictive modeling for dock workflows. AI agents volition besides negociate exceptions and emblem items requiring quality determination making.

STG said it volition besides money different probe and improvement initiatives astatine CLI.

For CLI, the backstage equity backing provides the superior indispensable to support gait with accelerated technological shifts. “STG’s concern successful our proscription and freight absorption exertion volition let america to support our presumption arsenic the market-leading proscription absorption strategy for LTL and present the adjacent procreation of AI-driven tools that our clients request to stay competitory successful a high-velocity environment,” said CLI President Ben Wiesen.

Arcadia Capital served arsenic exclusive fiscal advisor to CLI.

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