Yep... Know right where Hickory is. We still ship into Hickory, mostly
smaller companies. Sometimes we deal with L&M Produce which also has
warehouses in Raleigh. We used to ship into Taylorsville also, that's where
the Broyhill trucks used to deliver for us, but the place in Taylorsville is
kind of shaky these days. How many times I tried to get the Broyhill
traffic manager to sell me some furniture at discounted prices and leave it
on the trucks for me... no dice. ;(

We recently picked up a customer south of Hickory, just across the VA border
in Cana, VA. They take about a semi load per week. In fact, they were here
this morning and bought a few Angus bulls.

It's amazing how many Wisconsin potatoes the small towns surrounding your
local area use. Thanks!

Jim

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"Jim Burns" wrote

You're in Lenoir?

Yep.

We regularly used to load trucks from Lenoir... Conover
Chair company if I recall correctly. We also used to load other
furniture
company trucks from Hickory Chair and Broyhill...

I think Hickory Chair has closed up shop, or almost closed. Hickory is the
next town over, and is about twice the size of Lenoir.

Broyhill and Bernhart are two giants, and have their headquarters here.
They both are closing plants about every 6 months, about 1200 employees at
a
whack.

But as you say the
furniture industry in NC has been devastated. We haven't seen a Broyhill
truck around here in years and I think they closed their Midwest factory
return center in Minnesota. We also used to load trucks from Comscope,
the
cabling company. During the days of huge commercial building expansion,
Comscope used to ship 2 semi loads of cable to Minneapolis every week.
But
that industry has died also.

Yep, Comscope has closed plants, and are half the size they used to be.
They are headquartered in Hickory. (HKY) That was where the F-86 went
down,
off of an aborted takeoff, right before OSH. Pity. A real class guy and
a
really fine plane. It was one of the best Sabers I have ever seen.
--
Jim in NC