During the last five years, the motor transportation industry experienced a phenomenon of Mexican companies creating companies in the United States to offer door-to-door services in the cross-border segment .
This situation, with an exchange rate above 20 pesos against the dollar, was a strength for companies that entered the US market, however, in the last year and a half, where the Mexican currency strengthened and the exchange rate exchange rate remained below 18 pesos, had an impact on this company configuration.
This situation was what allowed Forza Transportation to strengthen itself in the market.
“We used a reverse strategy, we entered the Mexican market to provide door-to-door service in the crossborder, where our strength was in recent years, where the exchange rate allowed us growth,” Roberto Pérez Levi told T21. , president of Forza Transportation.
The manager described that with the exchange rate at levels between 17 and 16 pesos, there were transportation providers who went from charging Forza a thousand dollars for the service between Nuevo Laredo and Querétaro to up to 1,600 dollars for the service , “with that increase, “We better take advantage of our own infrastructure and manage it as an advantage for our clients.”
Currently, Forza Transportation, with its companies in the United States, has a fleet of 1,050 tractor trucks, while in Mexico it has a vehicle fleet of 282 units. “We operate between 1,300 and 1,400 weekly shipments in the crossborder , of which we already operate with our own fleet, about 70% , the rest we continue to do with our allied Mexican transport companies,” Pérez Levi highlighted.
Recently, Forza opened its headquarters in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León. This entity is the base of operations for its two divisions: in Salinas Victoria it has its operations center for Mexico, while services in the United States are controlled from San Pedro.
Roberto Pérez emphasized that Forza and its group of companies, based on data from the Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration (FMCSA) , in 2023 registered a movement of 120 million miles, “we are the largest door-to-door crossborder company , according to “FMCSA data, the company that follows us in this process drove 28 million miles.”
The story of Forza Transportation began in 2007, when Roberto Pérez began his activity as an operator seeing an area of opportunity in the motor transportation market, after graduating with an MBA from the University of Texas.
In 2008 he started Forza Transportation, and as he himself describes, “the advantage of dual citizenship, the knowledge of both markets, the expertise that gave me a different perspective and, above all, taking advantage of the conditions of the American market for the growth of the company with financing rates of 4% for the acquisition of trucks, for example, and that thanks to NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) and the T-MEC (Treaty between Mexico, the United States and Canada) have been our engine of growth.”
In recent days, Forza celebrated the investment of more than $220 million during 2024 in its operations in Nuevo León.
