LTL carrier, Old Dominion, opened a new service center in Dallas Texas

Old Dominion has relocated its Dallas Service Center.  The new service center is larger than its old one.  The new facility is 160,000 square feet, and contains 234 doors.   The old facility only had 130 doors.  The facility has been in construction since February 2007. 

Dale Kelly, ODFL Director of Sales Gulf Coast Region, stated “Growth in Houston, Austin and other parts of the region all puts pressure on Dallas, because Dallas is a break bulk center [for ODFL].  So it is not just Dallas business; it is also business in the surrounding region that put ‘door pressure’ on our existing facility, and that is what [drove] us to go forward with this super-center.”

Kelly also stated about the additional doors, “As freight is picked up in the outside areas of the region—from places like Oklahoma and Arkansas—that freight will move into Dallas and be broke out and distributed within the region.  What the additional doors will allow us to do is get that freight up to the dock and start working it immediately upon arrival to Dallas. Whereas in the old facility, that freight may arrive in Dallas, and we may have not had doors in place to put it up and had work trailer after trailer and continuous locating of the doors. This allows us to do that more quickly, and it will provide better service because the freight will not be sitting as long.”