New 14-door location will serve West Virginia and Ohio
PARKERSBURG, West Virginia (Sept. 4, 2012)–Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. today opened its new Parkersburg Service Center, allowing the company to keep up with continued growth in the region.
The new Parkersburg Service Center is located at 190 Elizabeth Pike in Mineral Wells, West Virginia. The two-acre facility will employ 12 people.
The addition is part of a $90-120 million investment Old Dominion has committed to real estate purchases and expansion projects in 2012. The new Parkersburg Service Center is positioned directly off of Interstate 77.
“This new facility will allow old dominion tracking to grow its operations in the Parkersburg area,” said Adam Osborne, the terminal’s manager. “The new and expanded facility will enable us to react faster to customers’ needs and meet the steady increase of customer demands in the area.”
The Parkersburg Service Center’s coverage area includes seven West Virginia cities (Parkersburg, Clarksburg, Sistersville, New Milton, Harrisville, West Union and Ravenswood) and three eastern Ohio cities (Marietta, Watertown and Athens).
For more information about Old Dominion Freight Line, visit www.odfl.com or call (800) 432-6335.
About Old Dominion Freight Line
Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. (NASDAQ: ODFL) is a leading, less-than-truckload (“LTL”), union-free motor carrier providing regional, inter-regional and national LTL service and value-added logistics services. In addition to its core LTL services, the Company offers its customers a broad range of logistics services including ground and air expedited transportation, supply chain consulting, transportation management, truckload brokerage, container delivery, warehousing and consumer household moving services. Through marketing and carrier relationships, the Company also offers door-to-door international freight services to and from all of North America, Central America, South America and the Far East. For more than 78 years, Old Dominion has been helping the world keep promises. In 2012, the company was named as one of America’s 100 Most Trustworthy Companies by Forbes magazine and ranked as the No. 1 National LTL carrier by Mastio & Company as part of the company’s 2011 Value and Loyalty Benchmarking Study. More information can be found at www.odfl.com.