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A pallet that rides I-5 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],"Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue","23,062","[Seattle-Tacoma](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fseattle-tacoma)",[29,30,31],"Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro","8,157","[Portland](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fportland)",[33,34,35],"Stockton-Lodi","28,518","[Stockton](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fstockton)",[37,38,39],"Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim","27,225","[Los Angeles](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Flos-angeles)","BLS QCEW 2025; route metros as delineated by the Census Bureau.",{"t":10,"text":42},"Together the route's metros hold 86,962 warehousing jobs, led by Stockton (28,518) and Los Angeles (27,225). That is 4.6 percent of the US trade on one road.",{"h2":44,"blocks":45},"What the table means",[46,48],{"t":10,"text":47},"Stockton-Lodi is the largest warehousing metro on I-5 in this table, with 28,518 jobs, 32.8 percent of the route total. Grocery and related product wholesale is the largest trade listed along it, with 68,684 jobs (partial) in the route's metros. Together the metros hold 4.6 percent of US private warehousing jobs, about one in every 22.",{"t":10,"text":49},"California, Oregon and Washington list I-5 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],"Grocery and related product wholesale","68,684 (partial)","0.79",[64,65,66],"Warehousing and storage","86,962 (partial)","1.00","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":69},"In Interstate 5, grocery and related product wholesale employs 68,684 (a partial count). Wholesalers handle mixed cases and rewrap often, so they ask about deck type first and whether the pallet nests when it goes back. It tends to lean on nestable and stackable in the common footprint, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about static load for mixed stacks and whether the deck is open or closed.",{"h2":71,"blocks":72},"The empty return, mile by mile",[73,75],{"t":10,"text":74},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 145 route warehouse sites (jobs ÷ 600, rounded) in I-5 sent back 1,200 empty pallets in a week, that would be 174,000 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":95},[77,78,79,80],"Model","Per trailer","Trailers per week","Rackable trailers",[82,87,91],[83,84,85,86],"PHS Plastic EXP 100 nestable","2,340","75","323",[88,89,90,86],"Rehrig Pacific Heavy-duty nestable","1,200","145",[92,93,94,86],"Nelson Company Nestable, stackable, rackable","1,800","97","Trailers = pallets ÷ per-trailer figure, rounded up. Maker-published figures for named 48 x 40 in models.",{"h2":97,"blocks":98},"Words on this page",[99],{"t":100,"rows":101},"dl",[102,105,108,111,114,117,120,123,126,129,132,135],[103,104],"2-way entry","A pallet that can be lifted from only two opposite sides.",[106,107],"Drayage","The short haul of a container between a port or rail ramp and a warehouse.",[109,110],"Recycled content","The share of a pallet moulded from reground plastic. Makers print it as a range, often by colour.",[112,113],"Closed deck","A solid deck that keeps small items and torn bags from falling through and wipes clean on top.",[115,116],"Interstate corridor","A freight route named for its highway, together with the metros along it.",[118,119],"Cruciform base","A base shaped like a plus sign under the pallet, which gives a stable footprint and slides well on conveyors.",[121,122],"ISPM 15","An international standard on treating and marking wood packaging material. 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