Trucking news: ODFL expands in Dallas with new service center

201308 Resource 165493 94146 94146 1207576678857 1207576338305 Controlled LTL carrier, Old Dominion, opened a new service center in Dallas Texas

The new service center contains over 100 more doors than the previous facility and will help Old Dominion in the region.

Old Dominion has relocated its <place w:st="on" /><placename w:st="on" />Dallas</placename /> <placename w:st="on" />Service</placename /> <placetype w:st="on" />Center</placetype /></place />.  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, <city w:st="on" />Austin</city /> and other parts of the region all puts pressure on <city w:st="on" />Dallas</city />, because <city w:st="on" /><place w:st="on" />Dallas</place /></city /> is a break bulk center [for ODFL].  So it is not just <city w:st="on" /><place w:st="on" />Dallas</place /></city /> 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 <city w:st="on" /><place w:st="on" />Dallas</place /></city />. Whereas in the old facility, that freight may arrive in <city w:st="on" /><place w:st="on" />Dallas</place /></city />, 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.” 9 application/xml false Less-than-truckload LTL North America ODFL Old Dominion Supply Chain Trucking news: ODFL expands in Dallas with new service center Logistics Management http://www.logisticsmgmt.com/article/CA6547626.html Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; InfoPath.1) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 Establish 208.105.4.154 false true false false true 187565 false false true false false false true 165493 blog blogsite/ChinaSupplyChain/web