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Inside Henry Dock Works

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Cargo handling specialists HENRY Dock Works, Inc. crew pauses from unloading trucks in the distribution center of Alliant Foodservices, where HDW got its start in January, 1997. By the early spring of 2000, the company had crews working daily at similar warehouses in the food service industry at over 17 locations in 8 states from "sea to shining sea", with more than 120 full time employees. Dock Works unloads for its food service clients under contract on freight shipped "collect" and is available to truckers when it is shipped " prepaid".

Gayle Henry, Chad Seymour, and Robert Silver are the senior operating officers of HDW, while Marshall Henry has the role of chairman.

Henry Dock Works cargo handling specialists make sure that all is secure on the pallet they are making up at the site of its first client company, Alliant Foodservices in Rocky Mount, North Carolina now US Foodservice, located just across the intersection from c.s.Henry Transfer, Inc., the trucking and warehouse company which was started in 1931 and in 1997 "fathered" Henry Dock Works, Inc., now an affiliate sharing senior management with the motor carrier.

Henry Dock Works, Inc., born from a third generation family trucking business, taught its cargo handlers early on that "America's Needs Move by Truck"....operated by truck drivers who have one of the toughest jobs out there. A friendly attitude towards them can often "make their day"!

All Henry Dock Works cargo handlers are trained and certified to operate the client company's equipment safely.

In the weeks following the vast floods of Hurricane Floyd upon Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Gayle Henry of Henry Dock Works, Inc. found temporary, full-time work for close to 175 people, many of whom were displaced both from their homes and places of pre-flood employment. For several weeks, her company provided two shifts of labor to Alliant Foodservices, Dock Works' first client, as they quickly removed Alliant's entire inventory, much of which was submerged in contaminated flood waters. Alliant threw out all $4 million worth of warehouse contents prior to disinfecting and restocking its distribution center.

All Henry Dock Works cargo handlers wear distinctively orange shirts and jackets so that everyone in the distribution center knows who they are without a doubt!