Loads in Durham, NC
Live within 75 miles
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Hauling in and out of Durham
Where the freight is
- AISIN North Carolina builds automatic transmissions in Treyburn Corporate Park and employs more than 1,700 people there. [8][7]
- Treyburn Corporate Park covers 5,300 acres in north Durham County. Tenants include AISIN, bioMerieux, Corning, Merck and Novo Nordisk. [7]
- Research Triangle Park covers 7,000 acres, about three quarters of it in Durham County. Tenants include BASF, Dell, Eli Lilly, IBM and United Therapeutics. [7]
- Novartis announced $771 million and 700 jobs by 2030 in November 2025, including a new two-building site in Durham. [9]
- Food Lion runs a distribution center at 1703 E D Street in Butner. [10][11]
- The NC Department of Agriculture food distribution warehouse is at 1015 Food Distribution Drive in Creedmoor, off I-85 Exit 191. [12]
- About 20 miles west, the North Carolina Commerce Park in Mebane holds Walmart, Lidl and Amazon distribution centers near I-40/I-85. [14]
- Medline's 1.2 million sq ft Mebane distribution center opened in October 2023 and ships medical products mainly across the Southeast. [13]
- Lidl's regional distribution center is at 3815 Senator Ralph Scott Parkway in Mebane. Take I-40/I-85 Exit 152 south on Trollingwood Road. [15]
Industrial areas
- Durham Logistics Center, at 1716 Camden Avenue by the I-85 and I-885 interchange, was completed in 2026 with 351,030 sq ft, 36-foot clear height, 84 dock doors, a 185-foot truck court and 86 trailer spaces. [5][6]
- The Butner and Creedmoor area off I-85 has the Food Lion distribution center and the state food warehouse. [11][12]
Rail, air and ports
- RDU splits cargo between North Cargo, for all-cargo airlines, and South Cargo, for freight on passenger flights. FedEx and UPS both operate there. [16]
- RDU handled 101,317 tons of cargo in 2024, and about two thirds of it was inbound. [17]
- The nearest rail container ramp is CSX's Carolina Connector near Rocky Mount, on I-95. [18]
- NC Ports calls the Port of Wilmington the closest port to Raleigh-Durham. [19]
Roads
- NCDOT estimates I-85 between Greensboro and Durham carries more than 16,000 trucks a day, the most of any highway in the state. [22]
- The I-40 widening in Orange County, 11.4 miles from I-85 to the Durham County line, is still under construction in September 2026, with more traffic shifts and ramp closures expected this fall. [20]
- Durham's city code has a truck route section covering access to and use of designated truck routes. [30]
- No Durham location made ATRI's 2026 list of the top 100 truck bottlenecks in the US. [21]
Low clearances
- The Gregson Street railroad bridge downtown, known as 11foot8, has been posted at 12 ft 4 in since it was raised 8 inches in October 2019. [1][2]
- Signs cover the three blocks before the bridge, and an overheight sensor turns on a warning sign and a red light. Gregson is one-way, and overheight vehicles can turn onto Peabody Street before the bridge. [1]
- It still gets hit. Crash number 187 was a moving truck on June 21, 2025. [3][4]
Truck parking and fuel
- Petro Mebane at I-40/I-85 Exit 157, 500 Buckhorn Road, has 285 spaces, service bays, showers and reservable parking. [23]
- At Exit 152 in Mebane, Pilot has 140 spaces and Love's has 82 spaces with a CAT scale. The Flying J at Exit 150 in Graham has 251. [24][25][26]
- NCDOT ranked the Mebane Pilot and Petro among the most heavily used private truck stops in the state. [22]
- Nearby NCDOT rest areas are on I-85 at mile marker 199 in Granville County and mile marker 139 west of Burlington. Staying overnight is not allowed. [27]
- NCDOT lists I-85 as at capacity for truck parking. [22]
Weigh stations
- The Hillsborough weigh station on I-40/I-85 near Efland, about 15 miles west, has four scales and weigh-in-motion. The Highway Patrol lists no fixed station on I-85 between Durham and Virginia. [28]
When volume changes
- Sweet potatoes grown east of the Triangle in Sampson, Johnston, Wilson and Nash counties ship year-round from packers. [29]