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It runs from Billings, Montana to Port Huron, Michigan, by way of Fargo, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago and Detroit.",{"t":10,"text":13},"States that list I-94 among their main Interstates: [Illinois](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fillinois), [Michigan](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fmichigan), [Minnesota](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fminnesota), [Montana](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fmontana), [North Dakota](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fnorth-dakota) and [Wisconsin](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fwisconsin). A pallet that rides I-94 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",[17,29],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":28},"table",[20,21,22],"Metro on the route","Warehousing jobs","Page",[24],[25,26,27],"Minneapolis-St","6,599","[Minneapolis-St. Paul](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fminneapolis-st-paul)","BLS QCEW 2025; route metros as delineated by the Census Bureau.",{"t":10,"text":30},"Together the route's metros hold 104,530 warehousing jobs, led by Chicago (59,586) and Detroit (30,083). That is 5.5 percent of the US trade on one road.",{"h2":32,"blocks":33},"What the table means",[34,36],{"t":10,"text":35},"Minneapolis-St is the largest warehousing metro on I-94 in this table, with 6,599 jobs, 6.3 percent of the route total. Motor vehicle parts manufacturing is the largest trade listed along it, with 74,583 jobs (partial) in the route's metros. Together the metros hold 5.5 percent of US private warehousing jobs, about one in every 18.",{"t":10,"text":37},"Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Montana list I-94 among their main Interstates, so the route's metros sit inside those states' wider warehousing trade.",{"h2":39,"blocks":40},"Trades that ship along it",[41,72],{"t":18,"head":42,"rows":46,"caption":71},[43,44,45],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[47,51,55,59,63,67],[48,49,50],"Motor vehicle parts manufacturing","74,583 (partial)","0.71",[52,53,54],"Motor vehicle manufacturing","30,396 (partial)","0.29",[56,57,58],"Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing","27,182 (partial)","0.26",[60,61,62],"Plastics product manufacturing","43,057 (partial)","0.41",[64,65,66],"Chemical manufacturing","63,889 (partial)","0.61",[68,69,70],"Grocery and related product wholesale","55,695 (partial)","0.53","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":73},"In Interstate 94, motor vehicle parts manufacturing employs 74,583 (a partial count). Parts suppliers move heavy loads in a loop with a customer, so dynamic load and a sound return plan matter together. It tends to lean on heavy-duty stackable pallets, nestable on the empty return, usually in 48 x 45 in or 48 x 40 in, and to ask about the dynamic load, since parts travel on forklifts and conveyors all day.",{"h2":75,"blocks":76},"The empty return, mile by mile",[77,79],{"t":10,"text":78},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 174 route warehouse sites (jobs ÷ 600, rounded) in I-94 sent back 800 empty pallets in a week, that would be 139,200 pallets. 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