Today, D.D. Jones provides complete logistics services through its affiliates.

These capabilities include: Warehousing Logistics/Analysis Distribution Expediting Drayage Intermodal Trans-loading LTL Dedicated Transportation Dry Van/Flatbed Heavy Load Specialists Technology Services

With these services, D.D. Jones becomes our customers strongest link in their Supply Chain.

The History OF D.D. Jones

Darling Divine Jones was born into a cotton farming, lumberyard and sawmill owning family who had lived in and around Dunn, NC for approximately 100 years. At the age of 16, D.D. left the family plantation and went to Raleigh, NC were he entered into a grocery partnership.

The National Guard brought him to Norfolk in 1917 where he managed several warehouses in the area. Realizing the need for local trucking, he bought a small but ongoing business in 1928. The assets consisted of a worn out truck, two teams of horses and a wagon. Shortly after he rented a part of the Old Bay Line warehouse for storing sugar and corn products and thus started the warehouse part of the business. The hurricane of 1934, however, washed seawater up through the warehouse and melted the 15-bag high stacks of sugar down to a foot.

In 1935 the trucking and warehousing businesses merged and D.D. applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for franchise authority under the laws that had just been passed. D.D. Jones' ICC number of 1630 must now be near the top of the remaining original ICC franchises.

The Company continued to prosper and after the war bought trucks as fast as it could earn the $1,000 each to pay for them. In 1949 the Company bought a 40,000 sq. ft. building on the corner of Boush and Main. The number of trucks parked about the downtown streets kept the Company in conflict with the Norfolk police. In the next 16 years, three more warehouses were built.

D.D. Jones died in 1965 and his son, Thomas, succeeded him as President. Upon Tommy's retirement in 1981, D.D.'s other son, Robert (Bobby), became President and in 1996, he was succeeded by his son, Robert Jr.

The Company has continued to grow and prosper. The first 20 years were slow but steady with the Company surviving the crash of '29, the depression of the thirties and World War II. The new millennium sees the Company with 75 employees, 51 trucks and nearly 400,000+ sq. ft. of warehouse space.

All through the years, the Company has carried on D.D.'s principals of honesty, service and dependability. These principles have served the Company well in the past and will continue to do so in the future.