News / Schneider boosts dedicated fleet with Cowan buy – and eyes further M&A

Transport and logistics giant Schneider National, ranked ninth on the Transport Topics top 100 list of for-hire carriers in North America, is taking over Cowan Systems for $390m, plus some $31m for the smaller carrier’s real estate assets.

Baltimore-based Cowan, which operates across over 40 locations in the eastern and mid-Atlantic US, provides dedicated service to clients in the retail, food and beverage and industrial and building materials verticals. It has a fleet of 1,800 trucks and ...