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Brokers
Logistics
Celebrates
40th
By:
Staff Report
Jerry
Wright peers out the loading dock of his 285,000 sq. ft. warehouse
in east
El Paso
to survey the rail yards just south of Interstate 10, anticipating
the next shipment.
Over the last 25 years,
Wright witnessed the failure of numerous operations within this
industrial district. They sit idly in the distance, ghost
buildings in the partially inhabited district of a 400-year-old
community that has served as an international trade and transport
hub since the 1700s. This industrial district, home to Brokers
since 1962, now houses three separate operations for this sector
of Brokers Logistics, a third-party logistics (3PL) provider of
public and contract warehousing.
Brokers Logistics acquired the current headquarters
facility in 1998. Originally
built in 1956, it has been expanded and refurbished to meet the
ever-changing demands of an unpredictable industry. Forty-two dock
doors, adjacent to the offices, accept and distribute the
customers’ diverse cargo. A
few blocks away another facility houses a cross dock and
transloading operation utilizing the rail-to-truck and
truck-to-rail concept. A third facility close by maintains a
highly secured document management and storage operation.
In addition, Brokers Logistics has facilities on
El Paso
’s west side that provide similar warehousing and transportation
services.
For 40 years, the Wright family has honed the privately
held company from an early food brokerage warehouse facility
spearheaded by Jerry Wright, Sr., to a technologically advanced
firm with multi-tasking capabilities and hundreds of employees.
“We have worked hard to develop, maintain and grow our
customer-base and to remain a strong, viable player in this world
of mergers, acquisitions and buy-outs that put decision-makers
thousands of miles away,” said Wright, an
El
Paso
native and past president of the Texas Warehouse Association. Now
chief executive officer, he started at ground level to learn every
aspect of the business he purchased from ...
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