Box Truck loads in Charlotte, NC
Live within 75 miles
No box truck loads out of Charlotte right now
Hauling in and out of Charlotte
Where the freight is
- Amazon's own facility list places buildings on Old Dowd Road and Tuckaseegee Road in west Charlotte, in Concord, and on Logistics Drive in Pineville. [14]
- Amazon moved about 60,000 tons of air cargo at Charlotte Douglas in fiscal 2025, and FedEx and UPS each handled 35,000 to 40,000 tons. [4]
- Charlotte Douglas handled 205,700 tons of cargo in 2024, up 7.3 percent from the year before. [4]
- The Airport and South Charlotte area is the main logistics submarket, and the I-85 corridor holds the most big-box distribution space. [15]
Rail and ports
- Norfolk Southern's Charlotte Regional Intermodal Facility sits between two active runways at Charlotte Douglas. It is a $92 million, 300-acre yard rated for 250,000 lifts a year. [3]
- SC Inland Port Greer, at I-85 Exit 58, gets an overnight Norfolk Southern shuttle from the Port of Charleston six days a week and runs a 24-hour container gate. [16]
- NCDOT names freight between Charlotte and the ports of Wilmington and Morehead City among the heaviest flows in the state. [10]
Truck rules
- Inside the I-277/I-77 loop uptown, large and medium commercial vehicles may not operate, park or load from 7 to 9 a.m. or 4 to 6 p.m. on weekdays without a city permit. [7]
- Through trucks are barred inside the loop except on listed streets. Anywhere a truck is off a truck route, it must carry a bill of lading or delivery slip showing a local origin or destination. [7]
- NCDOT bans trucks over 26,000 lbs with three or more axles from the left lane of I-77 in Mecklenburg County, from the South Carolina line to West Boulevard. [6]
- On I-85 in Mecklenburg County, those trucks are banned from the two leftmost lanes between the Gaston County line and Sugar Creek Road. [6]
- NC 73 in Cabarrus County is posted no trucks between NC 3 and US 29/601. Youngblood, Zoar and Hamilton roads in Mecklenburg are no-through-truck roads. [6]
- Charlotte raised its commercial vehicle parking fine to $100 and wrote about 2,600 truck parking tickets in 2024. Benfield Road and West Sugar Creek Road near W.T. Harris Boulevard were named as hot spots. [8]
Roads and bottlenecks
- ATRI's 2026 bottleneck list ranks I-77 near Lake Norman 31st in the US, with peak truck speeds of 26.9 mph. [1][2]
- I-85 at I-485 near the airport ranks 43rd, and I-77 at I-485 south of the city ranks 44th. [1]
- I-77 between NC 73 and I-485 carries 7,000 to 9,000 trucks a day. [10]
- Mecklenburg County had the most truck crashes in North Carolina from 2015 to 2019, 7,507 in all, and 44 percent of the state's truck crashes on ramps. [10]
- The I-77 Express Lanes run 26 miles in the median from I-277 to NC 150 in Mooresville. [19]
- The planned I-77 South express lanes to the South Carolina line were dropped in 2026, so no work zone is coming there. [5]
- Wide loads headed to Tennessee cannot use I-40 through the Pigeon River Gorge, where nothing over 8.5 ft wide is allowed. NCDOT routes them on I-77 and I-81. [17][18]
Truck parking and fuel
- Love's at I-85 Exit 29, 2603 Sam Wilson Road, has 69 spaces, 7 diesel lanes, 4 service bays and a CAT scale. [11]
- Charlotte Travel Plaza at I-77 Exit 16B has 50 truck spaces and was regularly full in NCDOT's inventory. [12][10]
- Outside the city, Pilot has 55 spaces at I-85 Exit 63 in Kannapolis, 50 at I-77 Exit 42 in Troutman and 50 at I-85 Exit 71 in Salisbury. [13]
- NCDOT says truck parking on I-77 and I-85 is at capacity, and 58 percent of the private truck stops it surveyed fill up every weekend. [10]