3rd Party Logistics and Warehouse Support for Joliet, IL

Back in 1894 Gratton Warehouse Company set up shop in Omaha, and its founding family still steers it through a fourth generation. Joliet understands what a long record means, since the city grew around canals, railroads and heavy industry that outlasted fashions. Our experience tops 130 years, G5 Logistics provides our backing and B2B Omaha handed us its 2023 Best of B2B honor. A shipper in Will County looking for an Omaha Nebraska warehouse130 Years RunningFamily-owned since 1894 and now in its fourth generation, Gratton brings well over a century of storage and freight experience to Illinois shippers. can verify each of those facts before sending a pallet.

The advantage we offer is geographic. Joliet sits on I-80, and so does the route to our dock, with access to other major highways around Omaha, so a truck can run west without rerouting across a city. Our standing with the National Safety Council, with AIB and with the Omaha Chamber shows how we hold ourselves to safe, clean and secure standards. Before any goods arrive, you can ask the account team how racks, docks and scanning stations work, and they will explain in plain terms. We are not a nearby dock, and we say so, but we are a flexible contract warehousing partner in the middle of the country that lets you spread risk and cost.

What Fits Inside Our Walls

Our building was planned for variety. Inside you will find consumer and general merchandise, clothing and textiles, electronics, toys, groceries, natural foods, machinery, industrial goods, boxed records and even movie sets. A piece may weigh from 1 to 10,000 pounds, a lone unit may reach 5 tons, and catalogs of one SKU or 5,000 are equally welcome. Pallet space is set around the way you sell, with room for fast and slow movers.

Extra services come with the account. Our crew empties and fills containers, ships break-bulk, runs JIT delivery, assists with special projects and handles returns, with other value-added tasks on request. Each step is captured by inventory tracking running off barcode scans, so a Joliet planner sees the same numbers our floor team sees. Surveillance cameras cover all of our facilities, adding security for goods you cannot watch in person. Because every pallet is scanned in and out, a Joliet owner can answer a customer's question about a shipment without driving anywhere, and stock reports put the monthly numbers in writing. That record is often what turns a distant storage site into something that feels like an extension of your own dock.

Planning a Long-Haul Partnership

The drive from Joliet is about 451 miles, so we advise sending full pallets and planned loads rather than rush parcels. Keep your fastest sellers near home, let Omaha hold slow movers and western-bound stock, and shift goods between the two as the seasons change. Under our public warehousing option, the charge follows the space occupied each month, which suits businesses whose needs follow shipping peaks and holiday demand. A distributor selling to Kansas City, Denver or Dallas buyers can stage goods in Omaha and send them from there under contract storage terms as orders arrive, while the Joliet location keeps only the items its own crews need within reach.

To begin, send a product list, rough volumes and your carrier preferences. Your account manager will say what we advise sending and what is better kept home, since some goods do better elsewhere and we would sooner admit it than bill you for storing them. When a third-party logistics arrangement still looks sensible, an online request or a brief call sets things moving, and a first shipment can be booked promptly. Afterward one person keeps your account, so queries on carriers, labels, invoices or special orders reach someone who already knows your goods.