Nestable and Stackable Pallets: Dallas-Fort Worth

Dallas-Fort Worth, by road

I-35E, I-35W, I-20, I-30 and I-45 meet here, and the Alliance area north of Fort Worth is built around freight. The Dallas-Fort Worth area sits in Texas, and the freight pattern follows the roads above.

Warehousing and storage is where this area is most concentrated, at 1.6 times the national share of employment. The area reaches into Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Hunt and Kaufman... counties.

Counties

ZIP codes with the most warehouses

The five largest ZIP codes hold 142 establishments between them. Grand Prairie (75050) leads with 39, 27.5 percent of the five.

Reading the numbers

• Dallas County has 44,657 warehousing jobs, 54.1 percent of the 82,593 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
• Tarrant County has 19,462 warehousing jobs, 23.6 percent of the 82,593 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, 25,195 fewer than Dallas.
• Denton County has 8,516 warehousing jobs, 10.3 percent of the 82,593 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, 36,141 fewer than Dallas.
• Fort Worth (76177) has 3 fewer warehousing establishments than Grand Prairie (75050), 36 against 39.
• Carrollton (75006) has 12 fewer warehousing establishments than Grand Prairie (75050), 27 against 39.
• Dallas (75261) has 19 fewer warehousing establishments than Grand Prairie (75050), 20 against 39.
• Lancaster (75134) has 19 fewer warehousing establishments than Grand Prairie (75050), 20 against 39.
• Dallas County's 44,657 is 25.4 percent of all 175,579 warehousing jobs in Texas.
• Tarrant County's 19,462 is 11.1 percent of all 175,579 warehousing jobs in Texas.
• Denton County's 8,516 is 4.9 percent of all 175,579 warehousing jobs in Texas.
• ZIP 75050 in Grand Prairie ranks number 1 of the five, with 39 warehousing establishments, 27.5 percent of their combined total and 1.95 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 76177 in Fort Worth ranks number 2 of the five, with 36 warehousing establishments, 25.4 percent of their combined total and 1.80 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 75006 in Carrollton ranks number 3 of the five, with 27 warehousing establishments, 19.0 percent of their combined total and 1.35 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 75261 in Dallas ranks number 4 of the five, with 20 warehousing establishments, 14.1 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 75134 in Lancaster ranks number 5 of the five, with 20 warehousing establishments, 14.1 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.
• Warehousing and storage employs 82,593 in the area (partial), 1.00 for every warehousing job.
• Food manufacturing employs 25,839 in the area (partial), 0.31 for every warehousing job.
• Texas's warehousing and storage employment, 175,579, is 2.13 times the Dallas-Fort Worth area's warehousing jobs.
• Texas's food manufacturing employment, 112,088, is 1.36 times the Dallas-Fort Worth area's warehousing jobs.
• Houston, also in Texas, has 33,785 warehousing jobs, 0.41 times Dallas-Fort Worth's.
• Laredo, also in Texas, has 2,014 warehousing jobs, 0.02 times Dallas-Fort Worth's.
• San Antonio, also in Texas, has 16,751 warehousing jobs, 0.20 times Dallas-Fort Worth's.

Who ships pallets here

In Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, warehousing and storage employs 82,593 (a partial count). Most of the demand is for general pallets in the common footprint, with the choice split between rack service and block stacking. 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.

The empty return

An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 142 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Dallas-Fort Worth sent back 1,200 empty pallets in a week, that would be 170,400 pallets. The table counts the 53 ft trailers that takes at three makers' published nestable figures, beside the 540 per trailer of a rackable.

In its state

Among the 5 metros of Texas that have a page here, Dallas-Fort Worth ranks number 1 by warehousing jobs.

Dallas-Fort Worth holds 47.0 percent of Texas's 175,579 private warehousing jobs. See the Texas page for the whole state.

Other metros in Texas with their own page: Houston, Laredo, San Antonio and Austin.

Interstates serving the area: I-35.

Words on this page

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.

Dynamic load

The weight a pallet holds while it is moved by a forklift, pallet jack or conveyor. It is lower than static because motion adds shock.

Closed deck

A solid deck that keeps small items and torn bags from falling through and wipes clean on top.

Pallet jack

A hand or powered truck with two forks, used to move a pallet short distances.

ISPM 15

An international standard on treating and marking wood packaging material. Plastic is outside it.

Cross-docking

Moving freight from an inbound truck to an outbound one with little or no storage between.

Slip sheet

A thin sheet of plastic or fibreboard used under a load in place of a pallet, handled by a push-pull attachment.

Interstate corridor

A freight route named for its highway, together with the metros along it.

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.