Adam Rodriguez, General Manager of Dot Foods here in Bullhead City explains the workings of the massive distribution center located here to a large group of Bullhead chamber members and local residents during the DOT Foods Field Day Tour hosted last Thursday here in Bullhead City. Photo by Kane Wickham
BULLHEAD CITY – The Bullhead Chamber of Commerce hosted a Field Day for members and local residents out to DOT Foods warehouse here in Bullhead City where attendees were given a full tour of the massive facility that redistributes food to all the major grocery store chains via their customers US Foods and Sysco, as well as countless more outlets such as Target, Walgreens, Hilton, Subway, Starbucks, and Kelloggs.
DOT Foods is the largest food redistributor in North America, and has 13 distribution sites such as the one in Bullhead City spread across the nation from Modesto, California to Liverpool, New York, as well as 29 terminals where the distribution sites also drop food to for local and regional distribution.
Adam Rodriguez, General Manager of the Bullhead Facility hosted the tour for the large group that attended the tour, and he explained just how DOT Foods carries out their mission to ‘Significantly contribute to the success of their business partners’ while showing the tour group around the huge facility including into the frozen and cooler sections, the truck loading docks as well as the interior of the 263,000 sq. ft. building which houses all the products that eventually end up on tables both at home and in restaurants.
The Bullhead Distribution Center shipped its first case of product back in early 2018 and the site celebrated its five-year anniversary last year by opening their very own Health Care Facility just for DOT employees located just across Bullhead Parkway from the Distribution facility.
The Bullhead Distribution Center currently employs 326 people making it one of the largest local employers in the Bullhead Area, with 100 warehouse workers and 140 drivers currently on their payroll.
Their current coverage area is also massive including Nevada (Las Vegas), Phoenix, and Los Angeles, making them one of the busiest distribution centers in the DOT Foods family.
Not bad for a company that started out in Mount Sterling Illinois by Robert and Dorothy Tracy in 1960 who at that time had one red station wagon to make their deliveries in. The company now employs 6500 employees and has sover 1600 trucks for making deliveries all across the nation and also into Canada now with 2 distribution sites located there. The company remains family owned.
Locally DOT Foods is known for their charitable work providing foodstuffs for countless local events here in Bullhead City area. Companywide, DOT Foods has donated more than $2.9 million in food and ended 2023 at $2.5 million. In Arizona, they donated $143,922 in 2023, and their 2024 goal is $156,377, which Rodriguez stated they would likely exceed by year’s end. They donate to events centered around Health and Wellness, Public Safety and Education, as well as community Development and Engagement. Most of the local events in Bullhead City that provide free hot dogs and hamburgers throughout the year get them by DOT Foods donating the food for the event.
Kane Wickham
