Loads in Rocky Mount, NC
Live within 75 miles
No loads out of Rocky Mount right now
Hauling in and out of Rocky Mount
Where the freight is
- Pfizer's Rocky Mount plant has 1.4 million sq ft of manufacturing on 250 acres and makes about a quarter of the sterile injectables Pfizer supplies to US hospitals. [1][2]
- A July 2023 tornado destroyed Pfizer's high-rise warehouse on the site. Most production lines were running again by September 2023. [2]
- Cummins is putting $580 million into its Rocky Mount Engine Plant in Whitakers to add gasoline and propane engines, with the work expected to finish by 2027. [3]
- Honeywell Aerospace makes aircraft fuel controls in Rocky Mount. [4]
- Corning closed its distribution center across Alternate US-64 from Kingsboro Business Park on April 19, 2026, and Ryder took over the building. [5]
- The former QVC distribution center, heavily damaged by fire in December 2021, was renovated and sold as a 1.2 million sq ft building. Its new use had not been announced. [6][7]
Industrial areas
- Kingsboro Business Park in Edgecombe County is a CSX Select megasite on US-64, about 8 to 10 miles from the Carolina Connector. [9]
- Triangle Tyre cancelled its planned Kingsboro tire plant in 2022, so there is no plant on that site. [8]
- Nash County says the Carolina Connector is within 30 miles of more than 500 acres of county-owned industrial sites. [10]
- Carolina Coastal Railway operates a transload facility in Rocky Mount. [13]
The CCX intermodal ramp
- CSX's Carolina Connector (CCX) is a 330-acre intermodal terminal on the CSX main line, about 5 miles off I-95. It opened November 18, 2021. [9][10][11]
- CCX runs three electric wide-span cranes and an automated gate that handles check-in and load inspection. [11]
- A directory lists CCX at 5770 Old Battleboro Road, Battleboro. Published gate hours conflict between sources, so confirm with CSX before you dray. [12][9]
- Carolina Coastal Railway serves Rocky Mount, Wilson and Greenville and connects with CSX and Norfolk Southern. [13][14]
Roads
- I-95 exits through Nash County: 127 for NC-97, 132 for NC-58, 138 for US-64, 141 for NC-43 at Dortches, 145 for NC-4 and NC-48 at Gold Rock, and 150 for NC-33 toward Whitakers. [15]
- NCDOT awarded a $7.5 million job in August 2026 to replace slabs and repair six bridges on 5.5 miles of I-95 between Sunset Avenue and Red Oak Battleboro Road. It runs about two years with overnight lane closures. [18]
- No widening of I-95 north of Benson is scheduled. [19][16]
- The Sunset Avenue, Eastern Avenue and North Old Carriage Road interchange projects around Nashville and Rocky Mount are finished. [17]
- US-64 meets I-95 at Exit 138 and is signed as Future I-87 east of Zebulon. The upgrade to full interstate standards was left out of the 2026 to 2035 state project plan. [20][21]
Flooding
Truck parking and fuel
- The Nash County rest areas on I-95 at mile marker 142, north of Dortches, have separate truck parking in both directions. [24]
- The nearest big truck stops are at I-95 Exit 106 in Kenly, including Kenly 95 Petro at 923 Johnston Parkway, open 24 hours with a CAT scale and 12 fuel lanes. [25][26]
- Oasis Travel Center at I-95 Exit 168 in Halifax is listed with 50 truck spaces. [27]
- Stops inside Rocky Mount are small. The Fuel Doc at the US-64 exit is listed with 5 truck spaces and no overnight parking. [27]
Weigh stations
When volume changes
- Nash and Wilson were the second and third biggest sweet potato counties in North Carolina in 2020, at 187 and 181 million pounds, behind Sampson. [29]
- North Carolina supplies nearly 60 percent of US sweet potatoes. The new crop arrives in mid-fall, and cured potatoes ship all year. [30][31]
- Nash County farms also grow corn, soybeans, tobacco, cotton, wheat and peanuts. [32]