PS Logistics Unit TA Services Acquires El Paso's Interload Forwarding

What happened

TA Services, the non-asset division of PS Logistics, announced on October 6, 2026, that it had acquired the assets and operations of Interload Forwarding, LLC, an El Paso, Texas, freight forwarding, trucking, and warehousing business. It bought Interload's sister company, Carmen Pacheco Transportation, LLC, in the same transaction. Richard Ibarra Sr. founded both companies, which TA Services describes as family-owned. Between them, the transaction includes trucking assets, five warehouses totaling more than 550,000 square feet, and a truck yard of approximately 10 acres in El Paso and Laredo, Texas. The entire team at both companies and members of the Ibarra family will remain involved in the businesses. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The seller

Ibarra started Interload in El Paso, drawing on his experience working for maquiladoras in Chihuahua, and later added a facility in Laredo. It is one of four El Paso shipping companies he founded, and his wife, daughter, and sons have run it with him. In 2016, Sunflower Bank financed the land purchase and construction of the company's El Paso headquarters and warehouse with a combination of SBA loans and conventional financing.

The work is built around the border: bonded and over-the-road bonded carriage, drayage, foreign-trade-zone and container freight station handling, local cartage, long-haul trucking, and warehousing. The company is compliant with U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) program and is HazMat certified. Its customers have included UPS and DB Schenker, alongside manufacturers in industries such as consumer goods and medical supplies.

FreightWaves, citing Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) records, reported that Interload operates 72 power units with 66 drivers, and that Carmen Pacheco Transportation, listed at the same El Paso industrial complex, runs 61 power units with 57 drivers.

"We built these companies by knowing our customers, keeping our word and taking care of the freight entrusted to us," Ibarra said in the announcement. "This gives our customers access to more markets and services, and it gives our employees a place to work and grow under a strong brand that shares our commitment to service."

The buyer

TA Services was founded in 1986 and is based in Mansfield, Texas. It offers multimodal brokerage, managed transportation, cross-border logistics, and warehousing and fulfillment, with operations on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. P&S Transportation acquired the company in 2014, and it is now part of PS Logistics, a flatbed transportation and logistics provider founded in 2004 and headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. New York private equity firm Gamut Capital Management, in partnership with British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI), agreed to invest in PS Logistics in 2021, and Axios Pro reported on September 24, 2026, that the two investors are preparing a sale of the company.

Between its April 2019 purchase of Celadon Logistics' assets, which brought its warehousing and fulfillment business, and its October 2022 acquisition of San Diego-based KPI Logistics, TA Services completed three other acquisitions and a merger with Sellers Logistics. TA Services said the Interload and Carmen Pacheco deal expands its existing cross-border operations.

"Cross-border performance depends on what happens on both sides of the border and at every handoff in between," said Scott Schell, CEO of TA Services. "Bringing our teams together gives us a stronger foundation to serve manufacturers and other shippers moving freight through the U.S.–Mexico corridor."

What this means for freight forwarding owners

TA Services describes itself as the non-asset division of PS Logistics, and it still took the trucks, warehouses, and yard, not only the freight. For a border forwarder, bonded space and the fleet that moves loads between facilities were part of what this buyer acquired, so an owner should settle early whether real estate and equipment go with the business or stay outside it.

The deal was also written as a purchase of the assets and operations of two related LLCs, not of the companies themselves. An asset sale and a stock sale leave a seller with different tax and liability outcomes, and which one is on the table is negotiable; our guide to selling a logistics company covers that preparation. Ibarra's two companies changed hands in one transaction, so for an owner whose operation is split across sister entities, how those entities fit together is part of what gets sold.

TA Services sits inside a sponsor-backed group whose investors are reported to be preparing a sale of it. For a family staying on after closing, the parent company they join can itself change hands, so the continuity commitments a buyer makes belong in the purchase documents, not only in the announcement.

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Source: TA Services - https://www.taservices.com/insights/ta-services-acquires-carmen-pacheco-transportation-and-interload-forwarding-expanding-u-s-mexico-cross-border-capabilities/