Averitt recently completed the expansion of its San Antonio operations with an 85,000-square-foot distribution and fulfillment warehouse, as well as a cross-dock terminal.
The Tennessee-based carrier aims to capture the growing trade flows tied to nearshoring and U.S.–Mexico manufacturing.
At an open-house event on Wednesday, company leaders highlighted the facility’s multimodal capabilities and Averitt’s long-term investment in South Texas.
“There is no other LTL carrier in this market with warehousing on-site that can do what we do for customers in such a short time,” Calvin Rackley, regional vice president of operations, said. “This expansion represents the opportunities that are in San Antonio. And many of you are harvesting those opportunities. There are many more to come with nearshoring and what’s going on in Mexico.”
The facility, located along Interstate 35 about 160 miles from the Mexican border, now features 80 dock doors — double its previous capacity — as well as a drive-through fueling station and on-site maintenance building.
Ed Habe, Averitt’s vice president of Mexico sales, said San Antonio’s location along the I-35 corridor— which connects Laredo, the nation’s busiest inland port, with major U.S. distribution hubs— makes it a natural logistics gateway for cross-border freight.
“San Antonio has already seen the effect of nearshoring,” Ed Habe, vice president of Mexico sales for Averitt in San Antonio, told FreightWaves. “San Antonio is part of the I-35 corridor, the busiest freight corridor in the U.S., which extends all the way to Laredo and then all the way into Mexico.”
Founded in 1971, Averitt Express operates over 4,500 tractors and 14,750 trailers across 85 locations nationwide, employing more than 8,000 associates.
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