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Plastic pallets by logistics metro

Sixty logistics metros, from Los Angeles to New Orleans, with private warehousing jobs in 2025.

Sixty metros

BLS QCEW 2025, NAICS 493, counties in each Census-delineated area.
MetroWarehousing jobsShare of US
Los Angeles27,2251.43 percent
Inland Empire118,3686.22 percent
Fresno5,0060.26 percent
Stockton28,5181.5 percent
San Francisco-Oakland9,4730.5 percent
Salinas2980.02 percent
Chicago59,5863.13 percent
Dallas-Fort Worth82,5934.34 percent
Houston33,7851.78 percent
Laredo2,0140.11 percent
San Antonio16,7510.88 percent
Austin5,6570.3 percent
Atlanta49,0502.58 percent
Savannah6,3840.34 percent
Gainesville, GA6560.03 percent
Northern New Jersey39,3672.07 percent
Memphis27,7421.46 percent
Nashville19,5481.03 percent
Knoxville1,7510.09 percent
Louisville14,5330.76 percent
Columbus34,2001.8 percent
Cincinnati19,9401.05 percent
Cleveland13,6520.72 percent
Indianapolis41,0672.16 percent
Kansas City20,6761.09 percent
St. Louis16,8790.89 percent
Lehigh Valley19,1221.01 percent
Harrisburg17,2410.91 percent
Philadelphia38,2502.01 percent
Pittsburgh9,8260.52 percent
Lancaster6,9940.37 percent
Scranton-Wilkes-Barre18,9120.99 percent
Charleston, SC3,2420.17 percent
Greenville-Spartanburg4,5750.24 percent
Charlotte18,4370.97 percent
Miami22,1041.16 percent
Orlando13,9280.73 percent
Jacksonville15,3840.81 percent
Tampa13,2050.69 percent
Seattle-Tacoma23,0621.21 percent
Yakima1,3090.07 percent
Portland8,1570.43 percent
Phoenix42,3402.23 percent
Detroit30,0831.58 percent
Grand Rapids3,1250.16 percent
Minneapolis-St. Paul6,5990.35 percent
Milwaukee8,2620.43 percent
Green Bay5840.03 percent
Denver15,8580.83 percent
Salt Lake City6,6230.35 percent
Las Vegas28,2501.49 percent
Reno12,2690.65 percent
Baltimore6,3770.34 percent
Hagerstown1,8420.1 percent
Omaha5,1570.27 percent
Oklahoma City8,3360.44 percent
Des Moines4,3930.23 percent
Sioux Falls2,9300.15 percent
Northwest Arkansas3,0650.16 percent
New Orleans2,0900.11 percent

Trailers for your volume

Suppose 3,260 empty pallets come back in a month. At the maker figures on file that is 3 trailers of Rehrig Pacific heavy-duty nestables (1,200 each), 2 of PHS Plastic's EXP 100 (2,340 each) or 7 of a rackable (540 each). The table runs the same sum for 6 volumes, from 3,260 to 17,090.

Trailers = pallets รท the maker's per-trailer figure, rounded up. An example of arithmetic, not a quote.
Pallets to returnRehrig Pacific Heavy-duty nestable (1,200 per trailer)Rehrig Pacific Standard-duty nestable (1,260 per trailer)Nelson Company Nestable, stackable, rackable (1,800 per trailer)PHS Plastic EXP 116 nestable (1,260 per trailer)PHS Plastic EXP 100 nestable (2,340 per trailer)Rackable (540 per trailer)
3,260332327
6,0206545312
8,7908757417
11,5601010710522
14,3301212812727
17,09015141014832

Words on this page

Pallet jack
A hand or powered truck with two forks, used to move a pallet short distances.
Interstate corridor
A freight route named for its highway, together with the metros along it.
Reefer
A refrigerated trailer or container.
Static load
The weight a pallet holds while standing still on a flat floor, spread evenly across the deck. It is the highest of the three ratings.
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.
RFID tag
A small radio tag moulded into or attached to a pallet so readers can track it through a plant or a loop.
Establishment
A single physical location where a business operates, such as one warehouse. A company with ten warehouses has ten establishments.
Cube utilisation
How well loaded freight fills the volume of a trailer or container. Taller or wider-than-floor pallets waste cube.

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Sources, last reviewed November 12, 2026

Ruler: the first pallet is 6.5 in tall and each pallet nested on top adds 2.55 in.0 in6.5 in24.3 in
Each tick is one more nested pallet: +2.55 in. 8 nested stand 24.3 in; 8 un-nested would stand 52.0 in. Rehrig Pacific heavy-duty nestable, maker figures.