Within Reach.
Without Congestion.

Greater Chicagoland is one of the nation's largest consumer markets, home to a $350 billion economy. As the freight capital of North America, Chicago boasts more rail lines and interstate highways than any other city in the nation. The trucking industry alone moves nearly $600 billion in goods through this distribution hub every year. And therein lies the problem: this robust distribution hub is stretched beyond capacity. Everyone wants to sell into Chicago, but more and more CPG and food service companies recognize that while it's great for sales, it's a costly bottleneck for distribution.

The key to serving the Chicago area is to stage your forward inventory at a location that is within reach of Chicago but not crippled but congestion. Our Chicago Consolidation Center is located right of I-65 near Hobart, Indiana. This best-of-class facility offers deep frozen and refrigerated storage, although the focus is on the company's Velocities™ Multi-Vendor Consolidation Program for pooled truckload deliveries into Chicago as well as across the country.

Why this location? Being just southeast of Chicago has a more attractive business climate; it also means inbound and outbound moves can avoid the top bottlenecks in the country. I-55 at Pulaski Rd. and the 1-90/94 split at I-290 have a combined annual truckload delay of 3,500,000 hours.

One look at the map and you’ll quickly see the strategy of being located just south of the I-80, I-94 94 and I- 65. You get Chicago, but you also get easy in and easy out to the greater Midwest and the nation.

That's the Chicago Consolidation Center. . . within reach, without congestion.


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