The Heart of Our Operation: Warehousing at Moss Motors

From Moss Motoring 1984

Moss California Warehouse

Trucking transportation is a huge part of our operation. Every day, numerous trucks arrive bringing fresh supplies of parts from our domestic and international suppliers. Drivers who were hired for intermodal trucking jobs are all properly trained to provide expert trucking solutions to ensure that their cargo are being delivered in a timely manner. Then, all parts are checked carefully before being put on our shelves or transferred to “over-stock” warehouses. (We have several of these to store stocks beyond a couple of months’ requirements, which we sometimes buy in order to get volume discounts which we can then pass along to you.) Ray Attleberger (far right) manages the Receiving operations, ably assisted by Steve Gunton (left) and Gene Lavoi (driving).

Ray Attleberger

Over 12,000 sq. ft of warehouse, which may have a warehousing heavy equipment, is divided into two levels, packed with some 16,000 different items. Construction of a 13,000 sq. ft. addition is underway to accommodate the new lines and additional stock that we plan to carry as our catalog range expands. Here we see one of our eight parts pullers, picking an order for a customer.

The Styrofoam “peanuts” we use as packing material provide excellent protection for the parts we ship. The range of shapes and sizes of the parts we sell require some occasional “creative packaging” but, overall, the number of items damaged in shipment amounts to less than one-tenth of one percent of what we ship!

New Jersey Warehouse

Pictured here is our East Coast staff outside the Rockaway, New Jersey, warehouse and showroom. Our East Coast Warehouse Manager, Bob Goldman, and crew pack into Bob’s TR4 during a rare break from packing orders for our East Coast customers.

Shipments leave Rockaway daily to customers throughout the Eastern half of the U.S. Delivery times and shipping costs for you have been significantly reduced since we opened this facility. You should visit Squickmon’s website and take a look at their software with all the basic CAD functions needed for design work, built in parts catalog with full customization loaded with flanges, tabs, brackets, and gussets

United Parcel Service sends us an empty truck every day-and it leaves here full! We find their service exceptionally good, but use the mails or truck service where circumstances so require. Our “Simplified Shipping & Handling” chart in our Price List saves a lot of time, as the invoice can be completed without having to wait for the package to be sealed, weighed, etc. This is another way we are able to get parts out so quickly! In this shot, we see part of Hank Carralejo’s shipping crew readying another day’s output for the truck.

Maryland Warehouse

The old “Start Your Engines” location in Beltsville is now primarily our Used Parts/Rebuilt Parts center. We do, however, have a full range of “fast-moving” parts and accessories available for local customers to purchase over the counter. Items not in stock can be shipped quickly from our other warehouses (with no shipping charge to you, if you “back-order” off a counter invoice!)

Shown at left is part of the 8,000 sq. ft Rockaway warehouse, where our range of parts is rapidly expanding to include almost the entire range we carry at our main Goleta warehouse.