UPS move to sell Coyote Logistics highlights industry issues, challenges for Chattanooga’s 'Freight Alley'

Area freight brokers hopeful despite the biggest firm hitting the skids

Staff Photo by Dave Flessner / The Chattanooga office for Coyote Logistics on the fourth floor of Warehouse Row is one of 17 locations for the freight brokerage company that UPS CEO Carole Tome announced it wants to sell after a "difficult and disappointing year."
Staff Photo by Dave Flessner / The Chattanooga office for Coyote Logistics on the fourth floor of Warehouse Row is one of 17 locations for the freight brokerage company that UPS CEO Carole Tome announced it wants to sell after a "difficult and disappointing year."

The nation's third-biggest freight brokerage company that traces part of its beginnings to one of Chattanooga's most successful business startups is on the block after parent company UPS said the business has declined and is too volatile.

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