U.S. Xpress Enterprises said Wednesday today that its board “is expressing no opinion and is remaining neutral” about an acquisition offer to take the truckload carrier private for $20.10 a share.
A special committee of the board is urging the company’s stockholders to make their own decisions on whether to tender their and accept the offer, the company said in a statement.
U.S. Xpress Co-chairmen Patrick Quinn and Max Fuller earlier this month boosted their buyout offer to take the company private by 10 cents a share, to the $20.10 per share level.
U.S. Xpress is ranked No. 18 on the Transport Topics 100 listing of U.S. and Canadian for-hire carriers.