ROCKY MOUNT, N.C.--()--U-Haul® is opening its first retail, moving and storage center today in Rocky Mount to better meet the residential mobility and self-storage needs of Nash and Edgecombe Counties.

U-Haul Moving & Storage of Rocky Mount at 131 S. Wesleyan Blvd. was acquired on Nov. 20. The 8.59-acre property was previously the site of Rocky Mount Storage.

The facility, which offers a variety of 457 indoor climate-controlled storage units for rent, also has truck and trailer sharing; a retail showroom with boxes and moving supplies; and green initiatives like the Take A Box, Leave A Box program.

In the future, customers will have access to outdoor drive-up storage units and U-Box® portable moving and storage containers.

This is the 49th U-Haul-owned and -operated store in North Carolina. It is conveniently situated at the corner of South Wesleyan Boulevard and Sunset Avenue, just off U.S. Route 64.

U-Haul of Rocky Mount business hours are 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday to Saturday and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Sunday. To reserve storage and moving equipment, download the U-Haul app or call our Rocky Mount team at (252) 366-5660.

“We are very excited to bring U-Haul services to an underserved community,” said U-Haul Company of Eastern North Carolina president Chris Perry. “We have needed this type of facility in Rocky Mount for several years now. We were thrilled when the opportunity arose to acquire a climate-controlled self-storage building in a targeted location, which will provide our customers with greater accessibility and convenience.”

Perry plans to hire two Team Members to help staff the facility. U-Haul seeks to hire locally to promote job growth within the communities it serves. U-Haul, founded by a WWII Navy veteran and honored as a Best for Vets employer by The Military Times, actively recruits veterans and gives them hiring preference. Find U-Haul careers at uhauljobs.com.

About U-HAUL

Founded in 1945, U-Haul is the No. 1 choice of do-it-yourself movers with more than 23,000 rental locations across all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces. The U-Haul app makes it easy for customers to use U-Haul Truck Share 24/7 to access trucks anytime through the self-dispatch and -return options on their smartphones with our patented Live Verify technology. Our customers' patronage has enabled the U-Haul fleet to grow to 192,000 trucks, 138,700 trailers and 39,500 towing devices. U-Haul is the third largest self-storage operator in North America with 1,024,000 rentable units and 88.5 million square feet of self-storage space at Company-owned and -managed facilities. U-Haul is the top retailer of propane in the U.S. and the largest installer of permanent trailer hitches in the automotive aftermarket industry. Get the U-Haul app from the App Store or Google Play.