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It runs from Petersburg, Virginia to Montgomery, Alabama, by way of Raleigh-Durham, Charlotte, Greenville-Spartanburg and Atlanta.",{"t":10,"text":13},"States that list I-85 among their main Interstates: [Alabama](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Falabama), [Georgia](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fgeorgia), [North Carolina](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fnorth-carolina), [South Carolina](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fsouth-carolina) and [Virginia](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fvirginia). A pallet that rides I-85 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",[17,45],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":44},"table",[20,21,22],"Metro on the route","Warehousing jobs","Page",[24,28,32,36,40],[25,26,27],"Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell","49,050","[Atlanta](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fatlanta)",[29,30,31],"Greenville-Anderson-Greer","4,575","[Greenville-Spartanburg](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fgreenville-spartanburg)",[33,34,35],"Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia","18,437","[Charlotte](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fcharlotte)",[37,38,39],"Gainesville","656","[Gainesville, GA](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fgainesville-ga)",[41,42,43],"Georgia","see route total","no separate page","BLS QCEW 2025; route metros as delineated by the Census Bureau.",{"t":10,"text":46},"Together the route's metros hold 72,718 warehousing jobs, led by Atlanta (49,050) and Charlotte (18,437). That is 3.8 percent of the US trade on one road.",{"h2":48,"blocks":49},"What the table means",[50,52],{"t":10,"text":51},"Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell is the largest warehousing metro on I-85 in this table, with 49,050 jobs, 67.5 percent of the route total. Warehousing and storage is the largest trade listed along it, with 72,718 jobs (partial) in the route's metros. Together the metros hold 3.8 percent of US private warehousing jobs, about one in every 26.",{"t":10,"text":53},"Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina list I-85 among their main Interstates, so the route's metros sit inside those states' wider warehousing trade.",{"h2":55,"blocks":56},"Trades that ship along it",[57,72],{"t":18,"head":58,"rows":62,"caption":71},[59,60,61],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[63,67],[64,65,66],"Warehousing and storage","72,718 (partial)","1.00",[68,69,70],"Food manufacturing","46,016 (partial)","0.63","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":73},"In Interstate 85, warehousing and storage employs 72,718 (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 121 route warehouse sites (jobs ÷ 600, rounded) in I-85 sent back 800 empty pallets in a week, that would be 96,800 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":80,"rows":85,"caption":97},[81,82,83,84],"Model","Per trailer","Trailers per week","Rackable trailers",[86,91,95],[87,88,89,90],"Rehrig Pacific Standard-duty nestable","1,260","77","180",[92,93,94,90],"Nelson Company Nestable, stackable, rackable","1,800","54",[96,88,89,90],"PHS Plastic EXP 116 nestable","Trailers = pallets ÷ per-trailer figure, rounded up. 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