[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":274},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fcorridors\u002Fi-70":3},{"tier":4,"sections":5,"faq":134,"sources":138,"related":154,"plate":194,"form":210,"scene":211,"path":212,"crumb":213,"ruler":214,"answer":215,"title":216,"h1":216,"description":215,"type":217,"schema":218,"reviewed":221,"crumbs":222,"jsonld":231},3,[6,14,35,42,66,92],{"h2":7,"blocks":8},"I-70 from end to end",[9,12],{"t":10,"text":11},"p","It is the main east-west route through the Midwest and the Great Plains. It runs from central Utah to Baltimore, Maryland, by way of Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Columbus.",{"t":10,"text":13},"States that list I-70 among their main Interstates: [Colorado](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fcolorado), [Indiana](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Findiana), [Kansas](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fkansas), [Maryland](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fmaryland), [Missouri](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fmissouri), [Ohio](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fohio) and [Utah](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Futah). A pallet that rides I-70 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",[17,33],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":32},"table",[20,21,22],"Metro on the route","Warehousing jobs","Page",[24,28],[25,26,27],"Kansas City","20,676","[Kansas City](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fkansas-city)",[29,30,31],"St","see route total","no separate page","BLS QCEW 2025; route metros as delineated by the Census Bureau.",{"t":10,"text":34},"Together the route's metros hold 135,057 warehousing jobs, led by Indianapolis (41,067) and Columbus (34,200). That is 7.1 percent of the US trade on one road.",{"h2":36,"blocks":37},"What the table means",[38,40],{"t":10,"text":39},"Kansas City is the largest warehousing metro on I-70 in this table, with 20,676 jobs, 15.3 percent of the route total. Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing is the largest trade listed along it, with 27,735 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":41},"Colorado, Indiana, Kansas and Maryland list I-70 among their main Interstates, so the route's metros sit inside those states' wider warehousing trade.",{"h2":43,"blocks":44},"Trades that ship along it",[45,64],{"t":18,"head":46,"rows":50,"caption":63},[47,48,49],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[51,55,59],[52,53,54],"Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing","27,735 (partial)","0.21",[56,57,58],"Warehousing and storage","135,057 (partial)","1.00",[60,61,62],"Chemical manufacturing","51,449 (partial)","0.38","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":65},"In Interstate 70, pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employs 27,735 (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":67,"blocks":68},"The empty return, mile by mile",[69,71],{"t":10,"text":70},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 225 route warehouse sites (jobs ÷ 600, rounded) in I-70 sent back 800 empty pallets in a week, that would be 180,000 pallets. 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