LANDOVER, MARYLAND — Some of the drivers based at XPO’s new truck terminal just off Route 50 and the Capital Beltway were busy during Thursday’s ribbon-cutting for the reopened former Yellow Corp. facility.
They’d left already to pick up and deliver customers’ freight for the day, COO Dave Bates told attendees.
“But we will have gourmet, loaded baked potatoes for them when they come back tonight from the food truck,” he promised.
The 20,000-square-foot Landover facility opened its 36 loading dock doors ahead of schedule to alleviate shipping delays in the region following the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, an XPO spokesperson said.
The new terminal, a few miles north of the Washington Commanders’ stadium, and 30 miles southwest of Baltimore, has reduced travel times to customers in the region and expanded capacity to meet growing freight demand.
“It’s a great facility for us, to get us that access that we have into the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore metro areas,” Bates said.
The site is one of the three XPO opened this week and six it has brought online so far this year. The carrier acquired more than two dozen properties for $870 million at Yellow’s bankruptcy real estate auction.
A 36,000-square-foot terminal in Las Vegas, which positions XPO to grow its trade show service in the market, is the largest of the three this week. The third is located on five acres of land in Sherman, Texas, near Dallas-Fort Worth.
At the ribbon-cutting event in Maryland, East Division President Tim Staroba and Service Center Manager Steve Zapata joined Bates in thanking drivers and dockworkers who had helped clean out the terminal.
“Thank you for helping making it a seamless transition into this new service center,” Zapata said.
Source: Service Center Manager Steve Zapata
XPO plans to open all 28 terminals it acquired from Yellow by the end of Q1 2025, growing its network by 2,000 doors.
As the largest bidder at last year’s bankruptcy auction, XPO is racing competitors such as Estes Express Lines and Saia to incorporate the additional capacity into their networks.
