Either side of the river: where we work

BOX 01Why one market spans three states

The river and the state lines cut Memphis into pieces on a map, but a trailer does not stop at them. Warehouses in DeSoto County sit minutes from the Tennessee line, a rail ramp in Crittenden County feeds docks on both banks, and the airport district takes freight from all of it. A pallet request therefore reads the same from any county: size, grade, count, ZIP code.

BOX 02The map

The map draws the river and the five counties as a diagram, not to scale. Tap or click a place to open its page.

BOX 03Where to start

Start with the town or district where the pallets sit. Each names the ZIP codes, the roads, the freight that passes through and the sort of pile that tends to build up there, so that a request can describe the load.

If your building is not on a list, use the nearest county. The request page takes any ZIP code in the metro, and what matters is the load: pallets per trailer and sizes help you describe it.

BOX 04What a map of the metro leaves out

The river chart shows places, not roads, because a diagram that tried to show every interstate would be unreadable. The roads that matter are named under each place: I-40, I-55, I-240, I-269, I-22 and US 78, among others.

Trucks do not respect county lines or state lines, and a pallet pile near the Mississippi border may be closer to a Tennessee buyer than to a Mississippi one. Use the map as a guide to which page to read, not as a boundary of who can help.

BOX 05A company with several docks

A company with docks in several counties has several piles. Each building has its own freight, its own mix and its own pile, and a single request should not try to describe all of them. Send one request for each building, with its own ZIP code, and say in each that others exist if that is useful to know.

BOX 06Reading place names correctly

Some place names on the map are neighborhoods and some are cities. Frayser and Raleigh are neighborhoods of Memphis; Collierville, Bartlett and Germantown are separate towns; Southaven and Olive Branch are cities in Mississippi; Presidents Island is a peninsula with a port. A request should use the name the postal service would, together with the ZIP code.

If you are unsure which county your building is in, give the street and the ZIP code. The county is a convenience, not a requirement.

BOX 07When a place is not listed

A building in a town without its own entry can still send a request. Pick the nearest county, give your ZIP code and say how far you are from the closest listed town. The listed places illustrate the freight in the market; they do not limit where a request can come from.

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