OnTrac's new facility near the Port of Vancouver. (Photo: Neil Abt)
Earlier this summer, OnTrac opened its largest distribution center, almost 600,000-square-feet, in Fontana, CA. Mikel Mobley, director of sales at that facility, said online orders account for about three-quarters of the shipments.
OnTrac was founded in 1991 as California Overnight, a division of parent company Express Messenger Systems Inc. It has 2,700 employees and 30 facilities across eight states. It utilizes 4,000 owner-operators.
In 2014, OnTrac launched DirectPost, and became the first regional logistics company to offer a U.S. Postal Service package consolidation service.
Meanwhile, the Washington-state facility, which actually has been operational for several months, works particularly closely with four satellite facilities in Oregon: Salem, Medford, Eugene, and Bend.
Currently about 4,000 packages an hour can move through the facility, though that can be expanded to up to 7,000 when needed. That includes shipments from its messenger, intentional, and overnight divisions.