Charlotte region, NC and SC I-85 I-77 I-40
NCI-77I-40
Where I-77 meets I-40; employers listed include Cheney Brothers, Denso, Doosan, Kewaunee, NGK, Sherwin Williams and Trane Technologies.
Iredell County is where I-77 meets I-40. Employers listed by the regional partnership include Cheney Brothers, Denso, Doosan, Kewaunee, NGK, Sherwin Williams and Trane Technologies, and the clusters are advanced manufacturing, logistics and distribution, agriculture and life sciences. Mooresville and Statesville anchor the county.
The county's farmland means growers show up at harvest asking for octabins, and the manufacturing side sends out the kind of boxes they use.
Iredell mixes advanced manufacturing, food distribution and farm work. Manufacturers send heavy-wall boxes and want the same back. Farm and food accounts send octabins and tall bins. Because the county has such a wide spread of footprints, the footprint is the first thing to put in the request, even before the wall count.
The lanes on this page: advanced manufacturing, logistics and distribution, agriculture, and life sciences.
Iredell names advanced manufacturing, logistics and distribution, agriculture and life sciences. Employers listed include Cheney Brothers, Denso, Doosan, Kewaunee, NGK, Sherwin Williams and Trane Technologies. A food-service distributor sends clean flat stacks; an auto-parts supplier sends boxes that held components in volume; a coatings maker sends boxes with the risk of residue on the board. Say which of those your dock resembles, and mention residue of any kind, since a stain from paint or solvent changes who can use the box.
Iredell docks vary from food distribution to coatings, so the staging advice varies too. Flat-folded food boxes should be strapped and kept dry. Parts boxes belong on pallets with flaps closed. A coatings maker should wipe and inspect any box that might carry residue, and set suspect ones aside. Write down how many of each lot you can show a buyer today, and how many will arrive over the next month.
Iredell is where I-77 meets I-40, with Statesville at the crossing and Mooresville on I-77 toward Charlotte. If your dock is near the county line, name the nearest town as well.
Consider an Iredell crossroads dock clearing a weekly flow of about fifty 48 x 40 x 36 in boxes, 3‑wall and Grade B, and a farm account with twenty octabins that held produce and still smell of it. Put the farm boxes on their own line and describe the odor and any stain. A buyer who sees "twenty octabins, used for produce, lined, dry" knows what they are getting before they ask.
Catawba to the west, Rowan to the south and Mecklenburg to the southeast are the likeliest places for an Iredell match.
Yes, both are in Iredell County and both have their own city pages. The boxes they send differ, so describe each on its own: racing shops usually have a small number of heavy-wall boxes, and distributors have palletized single trip stacks.
Count, footprint and wall count are enough to start.
No prices, minimums or times are stated here.