Nestable and Stackable Pallets: Gainesville, GA

Gainesville, GA, by road

Hall County is poultry country in the foothills northeast of Atlanta, reached by I-985. The Gainesville, GA area sits in Georgia, and the freight pattern follows the roads above.

Meat and poultry processing is where this area is most concentrated, at 28.9 times the national share of employment. The area reaches into Hall county.

ZIP codes with the most warehouses

The five largest ZIP codes hold 9 establishments between them. Gainesville (30507) leads with 5, 55.6 percent of the five.

Reading the numbers

• Gainesville (30501) has 1 fewer warehousing establishments than Gainesville (30507), 4 against 5.
• ZIP 30507 in Gainesville ranks number 1 of the five, with 5 warehousing establishments, 55.6 percent of their combined total and 1.25 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 30501 in Gainesville ranks number 2 of the five, with 4 warehousing establishments, 44.4 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.
• Meat and poultry processing employs 11,123 in the area, 16.96 for every warehousing job.
• Food manufacturing employs 13,771 in the area, 20.99 for every warehousing job.
• Grocery and related product wholesale employs 1,069 in the area, 1.63 for every warehousing job.
• Georgia's meat and poultry processing employment, 42,030, is 64.07 times the Gainesville, GA area's warehousing jobs.
• Georgia's refrigerated warehousing employment, 4,453, is 6.79 times the Gainesville, GA area's warehousing jobs.
• Georgia's warehousing and storage employment, 84,730, is 129.16 times the Gainesville, GA area's warehousing jobs.
• Georgia's food manufacturing employment, 74,165, is 113.06 times the Gainesville, GA area's warehousing jobs.
• Atlanta, also in Georgia, has 49,050 warehousing jobs, 74.77 times Gainesville, GA's.
• Savannah, also in Georgia, has 6,384 warehousing jobs, 9.73 times Gainesville, GA's.

Who ships pallets here

In Gainesville, Georgia, meat and poultry processing employs 11,123. These plants ask about drainage and cleaning first, then about static load for the product stacked on the pallet. It tends to lean on a washable nestable or stackable that drains, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about whether the deck drains and how the maker says to clean it.

The empty return

An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 9 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Gainesville, GA sent back 1,200 empty pallets in a week, that would be 10,800 pallets. The table counts the 53 ft trailers that takes at three makers' published nestable figures, beside the 540 per trailer of a rackable.

In its state

Among the 3 metros of Georgia that have a page here, Gainesville, GA ranks number 3 by warehousing jobs.

Gainesville, GA holds 0.8 percent of Georgia's 84,730 private warehousing jobs. See the Georgia page for the whole state.

Other metros in Georgia with their own page: Atlanta and Savannah.

Interstates serving the area: I-85.

Words on this page

ZIP Code Business Patterns

A Census Bureau series that counts establishments by ZIP code and industry.

ISPM 15

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

Euro pallet

A 1200 by 800 millimetre pallet, about 48 by 31.5 inches, widely used in Europe.

Stretch wrap

Elastic film wound around a loaded pallet to hold the load together.

Interstate corridor

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

Commodity class

A fire-protection category for stored goods and their pallets, used to design sprinkler systems.

UL

Underwriters Laboratories, a safety testing body that publishes fire test standards, including one for storage pallets.

Last mile

The final leg of a delivery, from a local depot to the customer.

Nest ratio

How many empty pallets fit in the height of one: pallet height divided by nest increment.