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PORT BUSINESS
Still Going Strong
AT MORE THAN
A CENTURY OLD, WOLLENWEBER’S CONTINUES
TO THRIVE
BY TINA IRGANG LEADERMAN
Not many businesses can claim they survived the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904. One of the few remaining stalwarts from that era
is Wollenweber’s Trucking & Warehousing, now run by the fourth generation of Wollenwebers.
The Wollenweber’s story began in 1888, when a German immigrant started a stable on Granby Street in Little Italy. By the 1920s, the horses
and wagons housed at that stable had been replaced by cars, and the stable became a trucking terminal and gas station.
Since then, the Wollenweber’s footprint has expanded significantly. The company’s current home is a 400,000-square-foot warehousing and trucking facility on Carbide Road, near the U.S. Coast Guard facility at Hawkins Point and conveniently adjacent to I-695.
This year, Wollenweber’s current President Chad Wollenweber celebrated his 25th anniversary working for the company. “When I started, I was getting my MBA from the University of Baltimore,” he said. “I thought, ‘Let me just work here
in between classes throughout the semester,’ and next thing I know, it’s 25 years later and I’m still here.”
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Wollenweber’s first job, he recalled, was unloading goods at the company’s warehouse facility, which was then located near the Baltimore Sun building downtown. “It was 20 degrees at five in the morning,” he said. “I thought, ‘This is crazy, I’m never doing this again.’”
Everything for the Customer
The philosophy that has carried the company through its first century will continue to carry it forward, Wollenweber believes: “I think it’s about the personal connections we have. All the customers have my cell phone number. I still have people call
WOLLENWEBER’S TRUCKING & WAREHOUSING AT A GLANCE
PRESIDENT: Chad Wollenweber BUSINESS LINES: Trucking and
Warehousing
ADDRESS: 7330 Carbide Rd., Baltimore, MD 21226
WWW.WOLLENWEB.COM
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