CACH
| Chicago Area Consolidation Hub (CACH) | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Location | Hodgkins, Illinois |
| Owner | UPS (United Parcel Service) |
The Chicago Area Consolidation Hub (CACH) is a package sorting facility for United Parcel Service, located in the village of Hodgkins, Illinois.
This facility serves as a sorting facility for packages travelling in the United States and the world. Construction of the CACH facility began in November 1991 at the site previously occupied by the GM Truck and Bus manufacturing plant. The facility has an area of 48.9 acres (198,000 m2), and has a perimeter of 3.1 miles (5.0 km). It employs over 9,000 people available to work one of the four shifts. Packages are only handled during loading and unloading, all sorting takes place through a system of conveyor belts and push paddles, utilizing high-speed cameras to read the destination from a smart label to sort a package to its trailer.
While CACH does not service package cars, the facility sorts approximately 1.6 million packages per day. During the months of November and December, volume can exceed 3 million packages per day. UPS's web tracking system used to list the CACH as "CACH, IL." Since there is no city named CACH, this confused customers. As a response, the company now lists the facility as "HODGKINS, IL" or "Hodgkins, IL."
UPS also has a location called "Hodgkins, IN" that is sometimes confused with CACH. It is a place where trailers switch in between singles, doubles, and triples, because the Illinois location doesn't allow some or all trailers and the Indiana location does. The facility is located in Hammond, IN at I-90 (Indiana Toll Road) & Calumet Ave (U. S. Hwy 41) off of the eastbound freeway entrance ramp 41°38′38″N 87°30′33″W / 41.643958°N 87.509272°W. It is informally called West Point by UPS. There's another UPS truck parking lot south of the nearby Public Storage.
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