Hersch Shipping Company

"Guaranteed on time delivery. Every time."

- Company Motto "I used to work for Hersch once, until some guy laughed at my little brown shorts and I beat him to death."

- Francis

Hersch Shipping Company plays a minor role in Left 4 Dead (it is not seen in Left 4 Dead 2). The company is mainly seen in No Mercy and Crash Course campaigns where the survivors pass through the warehouses.

History
Hersch Shipping is a sizable shipping and logistics corporation with a core investment in railroad freighting having its own fleet of boxcars and train yards. The company was founded in 1948 and has been delivering freight and commercial products ever since. Since the company's success at on-time deliveries, it has been able to expand throughout the northeastern part of the United States (whether it has expanded throughout the entire U.S. is unknown). The company has a few joint operations with Richardson Atlantic as Hersch can use their railway system in Pennsylvania as well as the Eastern Waterworks as both the watereworks and the storage warehouses are always found right next to each other (or nearby).

Current Status
When the infection appeared in the U.S. and evacuations were called by CEDA and the military, most of the workers called in sick or stopped showing up for work. All deliveries were suspended until further notice and processing facilities came to a halt until the infection passed. First aid kits, ammo, weapons, and grenades can sometimes be found in some warehouses in which survivors can use or gather to save for a later time.

The survivors encounter two different freight storage warehouses in which they must work their way through warehouse to get to the other side exit in order to press on their way. A freight warehouse in the city of Fairfield near the Burger Tank and Pump N' Run is one of the locales the survivors pass through on their way to Mercy Hospital. Another is featured in the Crash Course where a semi-truck blocks the alleyway and the survivors are forced to enter a Hersch warehouse where they can sometimes get supplies and move onward down the alley towards the main road.

Another location is featured in the custom campaign, Detour Ahead in Left 4 Dead 2 where the survivors in the third chapter have to go through another warehouse on the edge of a nearby town. They must navigate through the tight corridors of the warehouse to get to the roof where they can jump down on top of a semi-trailer and then down to safety where they then continue on to the town.