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It runs from Barstow, California to Wilmington, North Carolina, by way of Flagstaff, Albuquerque, Oklahoma City, Memphis, Nashville and Knoxville.",{"t":10,"text":13},"States that list I-40 among their main Interstates: [Arizona](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Farizona), [Arkansas](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Farkansas), [New Mexico](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fnew-mexico), [North Carolina](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fnorth-carolina), [Oklahoma](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Foklahoma) and [Tennessee](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Ftennessee). A pallet that rides I-40 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",[17,41],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":40},"table",[20,21,22],"Metro on the route","Warehousing jobs","Page",[24,28,32,36],[25,26,27],"Oklahoma City","8,336","[Oklahoma City](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Foklahoma-city)",[29,30,31],"Memphis","27,742","[Memphis](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fmemphis)",[33,34,35],"Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin","19,548","[Nashville](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fnashville)",[37,38,39],"Knoxville","1,751","[Knoxville](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fknoxville)","BLS QCEW 2025; route metros as delineated by the Census Bureau.",{"t":10,"text":42},"Together the route's metros hold 57,377 warehousing jobs, led by Memphis (27,742) and Nashville (19,548). 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Together the metros hold 3 percent of US private warehousing jobs, about one in every 33.",{"t":10,"text":49},"Arizona, Arkansas, New Mexico and North Carolina list I-40 among their main Interstates, so the route's metros sit inside those states' wider warehousing trade.",{"h2":51,"blocks":52},"Trades that ship along it",[53,68],{"t":18,"head":54,"rows":58,"caption":67},[55,56,57],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[59,63],[60,61,62],"Warehousing and storage","57,377 (partial)","1.00",[64,65,66],"Food manufacturing","20,519 (partial)","0.36","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":69},"In Interstate 40, warehousing and storage employs 57,377 (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":71,"blocks":72},"The empty return, mile by mile",[73,75],{"t":10,"text":74},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 96 route warehouse sites (jobs ÷ 600, rounded) in I-40 sent back 800 empty pallets in a week, that would be 76,800 pallets. The table counts the 53 ft trailers that takes at three makers' published nestable figures, beside the 540 per trailer of a rackable.",{"t":18,"head":76,"rows":81,"caption":93},[77,78,79,80],"Model","Per trailer","Trailers per week","Rackable trailers",[82,87,91],[83,84,85,86],"PHS Plastic EXP 116 nestable","1,260","61","143",[88,89,90,86],"PHS Plastic EXP 100 nestable","2,340","33",[92,84,85,86],"Rehrig Pacific Standard-duty nestable","Trailers = pallets ÷ per-trailer figure, rounded up. 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