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A pallet that rides I-65 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],"Louisville\u002FJefferson County","see route total","no separate page",[29,30,31],"Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin","19,548","[Nashville](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fnashville)",[33,34,35],"Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood","41,067","[Indianapolis](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Findianapolis)",[37,38,39],"Chicago-Naperville-Elgin","59,586","[Chicago](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fchicago)","BLS QCEW 2025; route metros as delineated by the Census Bureau.",{"t":10,"text":42},"Together the route's metros hold 134,734 warehousing jobs, led by Chicago (59,586) and Indianapolis (41,067). That is 7.1 percent of the US trade on one road.",{"h2":44,"blocks":45},"What the table means",[46,48],{"t":10,"text":47},"Chicago-Naperville-Elgin is the largest warehousing metro on I-65 in this table, with 59,586 jobs, 44.2 percent of the route total. Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing is the largest trade listed along it, with 38,390 jobs (partial) in the route's metros. Together the metros hold 7.1 percent of US private warehousing jobs, about one in every 14.",{"t":10,"text":49},"Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee list I-65 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",[53,76],{"t":18,"head":54,"rows":58,"caption":75},[55,56,57],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[59,63,67,71],[60,61,62],"Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing","38,390 (partial)","0.28",[64,65,66],"Chemical manufacturing","66,307 (partial)","0.49",[68,69,70],"Warehousing and storage","134,734 (partial)","1.00",[72,73,74],"Grocery and related product wholesale","48,597 (partial)","0.36","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":77},"In Interstate 65, pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employs 38,390 (a partial count). Pharma plants care about clean surfaces and a paper trail. A used 48 x 40 model one maker lists is described as pharma and food safe but not approved for direct food contact, which is the kind of careful wording to expect. It tends to lean on clean, washable stackable or nestable with a paperwork trail, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about resin and colourant documents and the maker's cleaning guidance.",{"h2":79,"blocks":80},"The empty return, mile by mile",[81,83],{"t":10,"text":82},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 225 route warehouse sites (jobs ÷ 600, rounded) in I-65 sent back 1,200 empty pallets in a week, that would be 270,000 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":84,"rows":89,"caption":103},[85,86,87,88],"Model","Per trailer","Trailers per week","Rackable trailers",[90,95,99],[91,92,93,94],"Nelson Company Nestable, stackable, rackable","1,800","150","500",[96,97,98,94],"PHS Plastic EXP 116 nestable","1,260","215",[100,101,102,94],"Rehrig Pacific Heavy-duty nestable","1,200","225","Trailers = pallets ÷ per-trailer figure, rounded up. Maker-published figures for named 48 x 40 in models.",{"h2":105,"blocks":106},"Words on this page",[107],{"t":108,"rows":109},"dl",[110,113,116,119,122,125,128,131,134,137,140,143],[111,112],"ISPM 15","An international standard on treating and marking wood packaging material. Plastic is outside it.",[114,115],"Location quotient","A place's share of employment in a trade divided by the national share. Above 1 means the trade is more concentrated there than average.",[117,118],"Edge rack","A rack arrangement where the pallet rests on the edges of the beams. It is the common test case for a racking rating.",[120,121],"Pallet pooling","A rental model where a company owns the pallets and moves them between customers, instead of each customer buying its own.",[123,124],"Commodity class","A fire-protection category for stored goods and their pallets, used to design sprinkler systems.",[126,127],"Euro pallet","A 1200 by 800 millimetre pallet, about 48 by 31.5 inches, widely used in Europe.",[129,130],"Drayage","The short haul of a container between a port or rail ramp and a warehouse.",[132,133],"Beam span","The open gap between two rack beams. The longer the span, the lower the load the pallet can carry across it.",[135,136],"Last mile","The final leg of a delivery, from a local depot to the customer.",[138,139],"Gross cubic feet","The total volume of a refrigerated warehouse. 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