Warehouse Fun Facts from Our 75 Years
- A primary lane for us is Perth-Gatineau which is 68 miles. We have repeated this trip 17,762 times which equals 1,207,816 miles or 5 trips to the moon.
- Warehoused over 684 miles of cable or the same distance as 2 road trips from Ottawa to Toronto and back.
- 42,741 man-hours on a single project which if covered by only one person would have taken approximately 20 years to complete.
- We have stored 87,000 pounds of pickles which is the same weight as 1 transport hauling 2 trailers.
- 8,868 appliances have come through our doors and we have no kitchen staff! Uh.
- Upwards of 200,000 Canadian Tire Tokens have been stored with us. That’s a lot of car washes!
- Interesting fact, neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night have kept us from picking & packing over 31,156 shipments for Purolator and Canada Post.
- We off loaded, palletized and shipped 143,000 cases of liquor for the LCBO in a two-month period and we accounted for every drop.
- 10,968 pallets (and counting) of car parts fill our rows-upon-rows of racking.
- 3,457 railcars have been off loaded, which if linked together as one train would stretch from Smiths Falls to Brockville, ON. on 27.32 miles of track. All Aboard!!!
- If all the rolls of pulp, we have off loaded were taped together we could ascend and descend Mount Everest 8 times.
- 2,253 rolls or 4,695,252 yards of filament tape fibers have rolled across Dock 7.
- 206,834 rolls of pulp have been stored which is the equivalent of 510,052,644 lbs. of chicken wings.
- We have 689,000 square feet of warehouse space with 24’ high ceilings so, if you wanted us to store pineapples, we can hold up to 16,000,000 of them for you!
- 5,896,714 cartons for Royal Container have called Wills Transfer their foster home.
- 75 Olympic size pools could be filled with the 49,634,575 gallons of oil we have shipped for Shell.
- In a 9-month period we shipped 408,209 cartons of tape for IPG. If we had only used a single employee to load these, that would be about 283 cartons loaded per hour. Our warehouse staff are machines!
Amazing