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It runs from Dandridge, Tennessee to the Canadian border at Wellesley Island, New York, by way of Roanoke, Hagerstown, Harrisburg, Scranton and Syracuse.",{"t":10,"text":13},"States that list I-81 among their main Interstates: [Maryland](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fmaryland), [New York](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fnew-york), [Pennsylvania](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fpennsylvania), [Tennessee](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Ftennessee), [Virginia](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fvirginia) and [West Virginia](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fwest-virginia). A pallet that rides I-81 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],"Harrisburg-Carlisle","17,241","[Harrisburg](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fharrisburg)",[29,30,31],"Hagerstown-Martinsburg","1,842","[Hagerstown](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fhagerstown)",[33,34,35],"Scranton-Wilkes-Barre","18,912","[Scranton-Wilkes-Barre](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fscranton-wilkes-barre)",[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 39,746 warehousing jobs, led by Scranton (18,912) and Harrisburg (17,241). That is 2.1 percent of the US trade on one road.",{"h2":44,"blocks":45},"What the table means",[46,48],{"t":10,"text":47},"Scranton-Wilkes-Barre is the largest warehousing metro on I-81 in this table, with 18,912 jobs, 47.6 percent of the route total. Warehousing and storage is the largest trade listed along it, with 39,746 jobs (partial) in the route's metros. Together the metros hold 2.1 percent of US private warehousing jobs, about one in every 48.",{"t":10,"text":49},"Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and Tennessee list I-81 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",[53,72],{"t":18,"head":54,"rows":58,"caption":71},[55,56,57],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[59,63,67],[60,61,62],"Warehousing and storage","39,746 (partial)","1.00",[64,65,66],"Food manufacturing","14,254 (partial)","0.36",[68,69,70],"Grocery and related product wholesale","6,640 (partial)","0.17","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":73},"In Interstate 81, warehousing and storage employs 39,746 (a partial count). Racks decide the order of questions: a pallet that sits on beams needs a racking load that matches the span, and a floor-stacked pallet needs a static load that matches the bottom of the stack. 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":75,"blocks":76},"The empty return, mile by mile",[77,79],{"t":10,"text":78},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 66 route warehouse sites (jobs ÷ 600, rounded) in I-81 sent back 500 empty pallets in a week, that would be 33,000 pallets. 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It is the highest of the three ratings.",[114,115],"Dock door","The opening where a trailer backs to a building so pallets can be loaded and unloaded.",[117,118],"QCEW","The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, a Bureau of Labor Statistics count of jobs and establishments taken from unemployment insurance records.",[120,121],"Closed deck","A solid deck that keeps small items and torn bags from falling through and wipes clean on top.",[123,124],"Commodity class","A fire-protection category for stored goods and their pallets, used to design sprinkler systems.",[126,127],"Open deck","A deck with slots or a grid, which drains water, sheds dust and weighs less than a solid one.",[129,130],"4-way entry","A pallet that forks or a pallet jack can enter from all four sides.",[132,133],"Polypropylene","Another common pallet resin, lighter and stiffer than some others, with its own behaviour in the cold.",[135,136],"Interstate corridor","A freight route named for its highway, together with the metros along it.",[138,139],"Dynamic load","The weight a pallet holds while it is moved by a forklift, pallet jack or conveyor. 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