Charlotte region, NC and SC I-85 I-77 I-40
NCI-85
American & Efird, a large thread maker, has six plants and its offices here; the Freightliner truck plant was annexed into the city in 1990; National Gypsum runs a wallboard plant.
Mount Holly is a thread and truck town. American & Efird, a large thread maker, has six plants and its offices here, and the Freightliner truck plant was annexed into the city in 1990. National Gypsum runs a wallboard plant too. Thread and textiles, truck manufacturing and gypsum wallboard are the market data's three lines.
Thread cones travel in light, dry boxes; truck parts travel in heavy ones; wallboard plants ship in neither but receive a surprising number.
Mount Holly gets cones and thread boxes, truck-plant boxes and wallboard-plant boxes. Thread boxes are light and have to be dry. Truck boxes are heavy and tall. A wallboard plant receives a lot of material in gaylords, so its empties are often single trip. Say which of the three your dock is closest to.
The lanes on this page: thread and textiles, truck manufacturing, and gypsum wallboard.
Mount Holly's three lines are thread and textiles, truck manufacturing and gypsum wallboard. American & Efird has six plants and its offices here, the Freightliner truck plant was annexed into the city in 1990, and National Gypsum runs a wallboard plant. Thread plants send small light boxes that must stay dry, truck plants send heavy tall boxes, and a wallboard plant sends boxes that carried additives and facing material. Describe each by footprint and wall count and say how long the stack has stood outside.
At a Mount Holly thread plant, the stack should be dry before anything else. Keep cone boxes on pallets off the floor, and check the bottom layer for soft corners. Keep truck-plant boxes square and strapped, and wallboard-plant boxes flat. Mark the lowest layer of each with a date so a buyer knows how long it has stood. A walkway between families helps whoever inspects the stack, and a note about the dock door keeps a driver from guessing.
In Mount Holly, the question after dryness is usually weight. A thread cone box looks small and carries very little; a truck-plant box looks similar and carries a great deal. Say which is which, and give an estimate of the loaded weight if you have one. A buyer who needs a strong box will not accept a guess, but will accept a clear statement of uncertainty.
The city sits just north of I-85 in Gaston County. The county page is Gaston County, which the market data describes this way: Textile and thread county west of Charlotte across the Catawba River, with truck plants in Mount Holly and Gastonia.
A Mount Holly thread plant might have forty-five 2‑wall boxes at 40 x 30 x 30 in, dry, and a wallboard receiving dock might have thirty single trip 3‑wall boxes at 48 x 40 x 36 in. Add the ZIP once. Mention that thread boxes have been kept off the floor and under cover; mention that the wallboard boxes were unloaded within the week and have been stacked flat.
Belmont and Gastonia are the nearest pages in Gaston County, and Charlotte lies to the east.
It is in Gaston County, just north of I-85. The question that does matter is the footprint, so give it first.
Count, footprint and wall count are enough to start.
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