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It runs from Laredo, Texas to Duluth, Minnesota, by way of San Antonio, Dallas-Fort Worth, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Des Moines and Minneapolis.",{"t":10,"text":13},"States that list I-35 among their main Interstates: [Iowa](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fiowa), [Kansas](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fkansas), [Minnesota](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fminnesota), [Missouri](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fmissouri), [Oklahoma](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Foklahoma) and [Texas](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Ftexas). A pallet that rides I-35 loaded rides it back empty, and the length of that haul is what a nestable's short stack pays for.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Metros on the route",[17,57],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":56},"table",[20,21,22],"Metro on the route","Warehousing jobs","Page",[24,28,32,36,40,44,48,52],[25,26,27],"Laredo","2,014","[Laredo](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Flaredo)",[29,30,31],"San Antonio-New Braunfels","16,751","[San Antonio](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fsan-antonio)",[33,34,35],"Austin-Round Rock","5,657","[Austin](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Faustin)",[37,38,39],"Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington","82,593","[Dallas-Fort Worth](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fdallas-fort-worth)",[41,42,43],"Oklahoma City","8,336","[Oklahoma City](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Foklahoma-city)",[45,46,47],"Kansas City","20,676","[Kansas City](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fkansas-city)",[49,50,51],"Des Moines-West Des Moines","4,393","[Des Moines](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fdes-moines)",[53,54,55],"Minneapolis-St","6,599","[Minneapolis-St. Paul](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fminneapolis-st-paul)","BLS QCEW 2025; route metros as delineated by the Census Bureau.",{"t":10,"text":58},"Together the route's metros hold 147,019 warehousing jobs, led by Dallas (82,593) and Kansas City (20,676). That is 7.7 percent of the US trade on one road.",{"h2":60,"blocks":61},"What the table means",[62,64],{"t":10,"text":63},"Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington is the largest warehousing metro on I-35 in this table, with 82,593 jobs, 56.2 percent of the route total. Warehousing and storage is the largest trade listed along it, with 147,019 jobs (partial) in the route's metros. Together the metros hold 7.7 percent of US private warehousing jobs, about one in every 13.",{"t":10,"text":65},"Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota and Missouri list I-35 among their main Interstates, so the route's metros sit inside those states' wider warehousing trade.",{"h2":67,"blocks":68},"Trades that ship along it",[69,84],{"t":18,"head":70,"rows":74,"caption":83},[71,72,73],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[75,79],[76,77,78],"Warehousing and storage","147,019 (partial)","1.00",[80,81,82],"Food manufacturing","69,817 (partial)","0.47","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":85},"In Interstate 35, warehousing and storage employs 147,019 (a partial count). Most of the demand is for general pallets in the common footprint, with the choice split between rack service and block stacking. It tends to lean on rackable where the pallet lives on beams, stackable for block stacking, nestable for the empties that go back, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about the racking load, and the beam span it was rated on.",{"h2":87,"blocks":88},"The empty return, mile by mile",[89,91],{"t":10,"text":90},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 245 route warehouse sites (jobs ÷ 600, rounded) in I-35 sent back 1,200 empty pallets in a week, that would be 294,000 pallets. 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