Step Deck loads in Charlotte, NC

Mecklenburg County, Metrolina. Main routes: I-77, I-85, I-485, I-277.

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Compiled from public sources and checked September 13, 2026. Conditions change; confirm closures and clearances before you roll.

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

The Charlotte weigh station on I-85, about 10 miles southwest of the city, has four fixed scales. [9]
There is no fixed scale on I-77 near Charlotte. The nearest on I-40 is about 6 miles west of Statesville. [9]

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