The agreement will see DHL use its transport management technology and logistics engineering capabilities to support Manheim Logistics, which includes logistics providers Ready Logistics and Central Dispatch and includes around 10m vehicle moves each year, mostly in the used vehicle wholesale and auction sectors.

Although DHL is a big automotive player around the world, it is not very active in the North American full vehicle space. Jim Monkmeyer, president of transportation at DHL Supply Chain said: “this just seemed like a logical next step for us. It’s something that’s relatively new to us in North America, but we saw that a lot of the capabilities, the technology, the services that we provide, we’re a fit with where Mannheim was looking to go.”