- RPM Freight Systems acquired PARS on Dec. 9, 2025, following its mid-December purchase of Dealers Choice Auto Transport to broaden vehicle logistics.
- PARS adds fleet lifecycle services like driveaway, storage, and titling/registration, while continuing to operate under its own brand and leadership.
- Backing from Trive Capital and Bluejay Capital (June 2024) is fueling RPM’s acquisition-led expansion across North America and Europe.
- The combined platform diversifies revenue and extends RPM beyond finished-vehicle transport into higher-value, end-to-end dealership, auction, personal vehicle, and fleet services.
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The acquisition of PARS by RPM Freight Systems represents a deliberate move to build a full-lifecycle vehicle logistics platform, going beyond just finished vehicle transport. The combination gives RPM access to high-value fleet services — driveaway operations, storage, and regulatory tasks like titling and registration — which PARS has delivered over more than two decades in North America. The arrangement preserves PARS’ brand and leadership, suggesting a strategy of integration with minimal disruption to PARS’ existing customer relationships.
RPM’s asset-light model—using a wide carrier network and proprietary technology—allows it to scale without the capital intensity associated with owning transport assets. The private equity investment from Trive Capital and Bluejay Capital, funded in mid-2024, is instrumental in financing not just this acquisition but multiple M&A moves (including Dealers Choice). This capital base underpins RPM’s ambition for greater geographic reach and service breadth.
The group of acquisitions (PARS plus Dealers Choice) both diversifies RPM’s market presence and reduces dependency on pure transport volumes. By entering dealership-to-dealership, auction, white-glove, personal vehicle, and fleet lifecycle segments, RPM gains exposure to markets with potentially higher margins and more resilience in demand fluctuations. The recurring, administrative nature of services like titling and registration or make-ready work also offers more predictable revenue streams.
Strategically, RPM is positioning itself to respond to structural pressures in automotive logistics: OE demand shifts, supply chain volatility, trade regulations, and increasing spending by customers on end-to-end solutions. Integration of lifecycle services helps RPM own more of the value chain and offer bundled solutions, likely making it more competitive in customer procurement. However, it must manage potential integration risks: maintaining service quality, aligning corporate cultures, and efficient technology integration. Open questions remain about the financial terms (not disclosed), how profitability of PARS services compares to transport services, and how RPM will manage operational complexity across disparate units.
Supporting Notes
- RPM Freight Systems, a non-asset-based logistics and supply chain solutions company headquartered in Michigan, announced its acquisition of PARS effective December 9, 2025; transaction terms were not disclosed.
- PARS specializes in corporate fleet lifecycle management — including vehicle driveaway, storage, titling & registration — and has more than twenty years of operating history in North America.
- PARS will continue to operate under its own brand and leadership despite the acquisition.
- RPM has significant private equity backing: in June 2024, Trive Capital and Bluejay Capital Partners invested in RPM to fuel growth across North America and Europe.
- The acquisition of Dealers Choice Auto Transport was announced in December 2025 as a further extension into the dealership, auction, and personal vehicle transport markets with high-service demands (e.g. luxury, exotic vehicles).
- RPM operates an asset-light model, using carrier networks and proprietary technology across over 30 countries in North America and Europe.
- Strategic goals include expanding service portfolio, improving operational efficiency, enhancing visibility, and diversifying revenue sources; RPM’s leadership has emphasized agility, capacity flexibility, and moving toward value-added services beyond transport.