SAN ANTONIO, TX – With the goal of offering more strategic and efficient solutions to its customers, Averitt increased its capacity at its distribution & fulfillment center in San Antonio, Texas , and from this key point it is less than three hours from the main borders with Mexico , and within a radius of less than 150 miles it serves various cities in the southeastern United States .

This Averitt center has 85,000 square feet (7,896 m2) and 80 loading docks for distribution and fulfillment activities , with the goal of reducing operating costs for its customers through better logistics models, based on the use of the service portfolio, which includes full truckload , less -than-truckload (LTL ), dedicated services, distribution and fulfillment, as well as integrated services.

During the opening ceremony of this operations center, Calvin Rackley, regional vice president of Operations, described the addition of 40 loading docks and 85,000 square feet as a development opportunity for South Texas. “It represents the opportunities you are taking advantage of, and there is much more to come with close logistics and the opportunities happening in Mexico. This represents innovation,” Rackley emphasized to his clients in attendance.

The executive asserted that there is no other LTL company in the region with its own warehouse capable of performing the tasks that customers need, and this is a result of the innovative vision of the founder: Gary Sasser, the company’s current CEO, a perspective that the company has maintained for 50 years .

With this new facility, Averitt’s customers in Mexico have the ability to carry out their distribution and fulfillment activities from San Antonio, reducing the saturation and complexity represented by the Laredo border .

Averitt has approximately 8,500 employees, including operators and associates , and its facilities total approximately four million square feet, with the capacity to serve the central and southeastern United States and its connection to the markets of Canada and Mexico.

As for the operations center in San Antonio, its location is strategic and close to Interstate 35, which connects Laredo with Michigan and Canada; Loop 410, which allows for travel around San Antonio; and Interstate 10, which connects all of South Texas. In addition, it is near the San Antonio Airport (SAT) and the Union Pacific (UP) and BNSF railroad yards.

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In October 2024, Averitt began operations with a warehouse in San Antonio, Texas, strengthening its service and infrastructure offering by connecting the regions of Laredo, San Antonio, Austin, Waco and Dallas, via Highway 35 that crosses Texas.

The San Antonio office was conceived as an alternative to strengthen companies participating in nearshoring , so that they have options to be more efficient in their supply chains.

The San Antonio warehouse has 85,000 square feet (7,896 m2) of space and has 78 docks, compared to the previous facility with 38. In addition, the warehouse is ideally located close to the San Antonio International Airport and Interstates 10, 410 and 35. “Highway 35 is essential for connecting trade with Mexico, and this route is where Averitt’s other facilities are integrated, where we have more than 700,000 square feet,” said Edward Habe, Vice President of Mexico Sales & Services for Averitt.

Averitt’s new facility has confirmed its viability for Mexican customers serving the North American market. “We have two customers using our San Antonio warehouse, which still has availability, and with the versatility of having lead times that adapt to the needs of exporters,” Habe added.

One of the concepts that Averitt promotes is that clients have smarter logistics, adapted to their needs and allowing them to make better use of the infrastructure available.

Something similar happened with the clients who occupied the spaces in the San Antonio warehouse, who, faced with the threat of tariffs being implemented from the first day of President Donald Trump’s administration , positioned merchandise from the other side of the border, to have that versatility.

“In the quest to have more efficient logistics, but above all to avoid complexities such as customs congestion or inclement weather, the infrastructure developed by Averitt allows us to take advantage of all the logistical potential; for example, fulfillment can be done from the San Antonio warehouse, benefiting the clients’ operations,” said Adrián Garza, Averitt’s commercial representative for Mexico.

Garza highlighted that the versatility of logistics operations for Averitt clients is complemented by the entire portfolio of services, which can be combined with FTL (Full Truck Load), LTL (Less Than Truck), dedicated transportation services, as well as storage or distribution.

In the perspective of Edward Habe and Adrián Garza, supply chains today prioritize having a multiplicity of solutions, which have the capacity to adapt to the speed of the market and the challenges involved in trade between Mexico and the United States.

One area where Averitt works is to generate the necessary solutions for each client, where companies can sometimes have very defined schemes, but which are not adapted to current market conditions, and this is where Averitt can offer, in addition to cutting-edge solutions, schemes that respond to the reality of the exchange between Mexico and the United States, thus contributing to the productivity of its clients.

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