Box Truck loads in Rocky Mount, NC
Live within 75 miles
No box truck 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]