Claude S. Henry was a huge man with a smart idea: Trade his Chrysler auto for a truck, build a trailer, and start trucking fertilizer made across the street from his service station to the farmers in Eastern North Carolina. Henry, who stood more than six foot, four inches tall, weighed 300 pounds and had only a week of schooling, started with just one truck during the Depression year of 1931. By the time his son M. Webster Henry returned from World War II, C.S. Henry had added several trucks and desperately needed his son's business sense to help his venture survive and grow. Together, C.S. kept the trucks running while Webster expanded the customer list and managed the business.

     Over the years since 1931, the company has made many necessary changes, but the HENRY name remains distinctive among shippers, receivers, and other trucking companies in this region of the state and along the East Coast. Known as consistently reliable, c.s. HENRY Transfer, Inc. continues to shape itself in the image of its customers. HENRY provides premium level trucking services with its own fleet of tractors and trailers as well as through contracts with other motor carriers, and can furnish a variety of trailer equipment to match a customer's shipping needs.

     In addition to trucking, HENRY Dock Works, Inc. was established as an affiliated company in 1997 to furnish third party cargo handling services to a growing number of companies requiring labor to unload freight most often from trucks delivering to distribution centers. With a concentration in the food service industry, Dock Works has its cargo handling specialists in locations in a number of cities and states already, according to Marshall and Gayle Henry, who own and operate both organizations. Marshall, grandson of C.S. and son of Webster Henry, says that the trucking background and point of view of its management group towards the task of handling freight are what enabled Dock Works to "take off" as a business entity. Managers in various areas of the trucking operation "crossed over as needed to start up and then to further develop Dock Works, with the top two female officers of the trucking company formally chosen to lead HENRY Dock Works, Inc. - Jane Hedgepeth as president and Gayle Henry as executive vice president & treasurer. Attention to improving efficiency for the client distribution center, as well as providing safe and careful cargo handling by trained personnel with a friendly attitude towards the truck driver, are vital factors in the company's success.

     With the slogan "Relax. We Can Handle It!, HENRY is ready, anxious, and able to continue as a hallmark in freight service; providers.