Americold Logistics Carthage — Local services in Carthage

This place has overnight parking, Parking lot recently paved. People at guard shack are very friendly. Rules are posted on the wall in the guardshack. Follow the rules, you'll be treated with respect. Bathroom facilities are located at the guardshack. There is also, a small parking area on the LHS of road 1/8th a mile before the entrance. There are no facilities in this parking area. Bunge Cords are needed for mudflaps in the upper parking lot. Holes are large and ruddy. Schreiber has a separate parking area, but is monitored by the guardshack. You will need a code to get to this paved and well lit parking lot. Facilities for this parking lot is inside the cave. They offer all amenities. Ask about the showers, I know they're available,never had to use the facilities here. Closest scale is Flying J. Americold/Schreiber/Sugar Creek take generally a couple of hours to unload/load. Download music/ games/ videos,etc, before you get to the cave, cell services is unavailable. The cave portion requires you to drive through pillars This is important because when you plan your backing set up on the 80 doors in the Americold Area the pillars will keep you from planning a straight line or 45 back. Most of the 90 doors are straight line backs. This information on the backing set up, will be more important to you then the parking. Because once in the cave, Door 82-85 requires you to drive inside of the pillar to set up a straight line back. THIS MAY NOT BE OBVIOUS ON FIRST GLANCE!!! Most drivers have to be told. Sugar Creek facility door#26 requires you set up a 45 outside the pillars of doors 28-30, and back through the pillar to door 26, because the pillar offsets door 26 by inches. When you pull forward after backing toward door 26, you will pull up and your mirror will be inches from the pillar. Making a straight line back into 26. Schreiber Foods, Door 9-12 require you to back around the pillar blind. Door 1-3 require you to drive through the pillars of 4-8 to set up a straight line back. Doors 4-8, drive through 9-12 set up 45. However, if there are trucks in any of these doors, you will have to set up a 45 and back around the pillars. But if you are skilled enough you can possibly drive through the pillars for more flexibility and pull up room. This is a good place to deliver or load, However, once in the cave, these direction may not make since now... But will when you are in the actual cave, trying to figure out how to back in, They will be your life line.You will remember, especially if no one is available to tell you. Make this review available for offline use, Because at 1st glance these pillars look like a barricade. Don't forget to download your media as well. It stays about 50-60 degrees in the caves. But in the winter tends to run a few degrees above the outside temp. Especially in Schreiber/ Sugar Creek area, Americold area is deeper in the cave and tends to average 50-60 degrees. You cannot run your truck/ reefer/APU in the cave, air quality issues. So be prepared to keep warm in the winter. I hope this information is helpful. Add to it, if I missed...

Unique place. Looks like an old mine taken over by a cold storage company. Very busy! Probably 60 trucks in the staging area. I got here 2 and 1/2 hours before my appointment but they gave me a door 20 minutes past my appointment time. It took about 7 hours to load me. Nobody minded that I drove at 3 miles per hour back to the staging area and parked there for another 6 hours for a reset :) Hey its cold storage, sometimes it goes like this. I think the two guys loading the trailer were loading it by hand. No forklift bouncing me around during my naps! Just footsteps of people running back and forth. The lumper fees are high and their policies for being late are strict. If you are going to be late call, see if you can get another time slot. They have bathrooms, a vending machine that needs to be stocked (a bag of jalapeno cheetos was 1.35, kinda high), drinks machine. Bathrooms. In total, Very professional. Just follow directions and you'll be fine. No refr running while you are being loaded or unloaded. No truck running although some people still did it. I don't know why - it is 66 degrees under the mountain. Plenty cool. There are huge fans circulating air under the mountain. THERE IS NO CELL SERVICE UNDER THE MOUNTAIN. Please keep that in mind. They had a payphone but it did not work. I wonder if it was an old decommissioned military base. Anyhow, don't worry about your clock! It won't help. I can see how o/os would be mad about it though.. In all, somewhere between 3...

The only cool thing about this place is the fact that it's underground and in caves. Other than that, absolutely horrible. My appointment was for 5:00 a.m. I arrived at 4:00 a.m. . He called me around 6:00ish, I drove into the caves they gave me a dock, however, you can't break the seal and back up. You have to wait for them. They finally got to me at around noon. They were unloading trucks that got there after me. When I walked the mile or so to the office, they said there was something wrong with the door. I don't believe that at all. Because I banged on the door, if there was somebody working on it somebody would have said something. They are liars. From 4:00 a.m. until now 1:30 p.m. is how much I spent at this place. Disrespectful, absolutely the worst experience exacerbated by the fact that you're underground with no internet, no phone, nothing. Your TV doesn't even work. So in that entire time frame, nothing to do but just sit and wait. They have signs plastered all over the offices saying that if you're late it's like $150 fine. I wasn't late, and they had absolute no respect for my time as a truck driver. Which is ironic considering the fact that this place has had mostly good reviews, give the door get unloaded pretty fast etc. Stuck underground with no form of entertainment can drive a person mad. And I truly hope americode looks at this review and fixes the problem. They are disrespectful and...