Nestable and Stackable Pallets: Las Vegas

Las Vegas, by road

I-15 and US-95 meet in a valley a day's drive from Los Angeles, with warehouses north and south of the city. The Las Vegas area sits in Nevada, and the freight pattern follows the roads above.

Warehousing and storage is where this area is most concentrated, at 1.9 times the national share of employment. The area reaches into Clark county.

ZIP codes with the most warehouses

The five largest ZIP codes hold 99 establishments between them. Las Vegas (89115) leads with 45, 45.5 percent of the five.

Reading the numbers

• Las Vegas (89119) has 30 fewer warehousing establishments than Las Vegas (89115), 15 against 45.
• North Las Vegas (89081) has 31 fewer warehousing establishments than Las Vegas (89115), 14 against 45.
• Las Vegas (89118) has 32 fewer warehousing establishments than Las Vegas (89115), 13 against 45.
• North Las Vegas (89030) has 33 fewer warehousing establishments than Las Vegas (89115), 12 against 45.
• ZIP 89115 in Las Vegas ranks number 1 of the five, with 45 warehousing establishments, 45.5 percent of their combined total and 3.75 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 89119 in Las Vegas ranks number 2 of the five, with 15 warehousing establishments, 15.2 percent of their combined total and 1.25 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 89081 in North Las Vegas ranks number 3 of the five, with 14 warehousing establishments, 14.1 percent of their combined total and 1.17 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 89118 in Las Vegas ranks number 4 of the five, with 13 warehousing establishments, 13.1 percent of their combined total and 1.08 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 89030 in North Las Vegas ranks number 5 of the five, with 12 warehousing establishments, 12.1 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.
• Warehousing and storage employs 28,250 in the area, 1.00 for every warehousing job.
• Grocery and related product wholesale employs 5,074 in the area, 0.18 for every warehousing job.
• Nevada's warehousing and storage employment, 42,113, is 1.49 times the Las Vegas area's warehousing jobs.
• Nevada's food manufacturing employment, 8,424, is 0.30 times the Las Vegas area's warehousing jobs.
• Reno, also in Nevada, has 12,269 warehousing jobs, 0.43 times Las Vegas's.

Who ships pallets here

In Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, warehousing and storage employs 28,250. 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.

The empty return

An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 99 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Las Vegas sent back 1,200 empty pallets in a week, that would be 118,800 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 2 metros of Nevada that have a page here, Las Vegas ranks number 1 by warehousing jobs.

Las Vegas holds 67.1 percent of Nevada's 42,113 private warehousing jobs. See the Nevada page for the whole state.

Other metros in Nevada with their own page: Reno.

Words on this page

Gross cubic feet

The total volume of a refrigerated warehouse. Usable space is smaller once aisles and equipment are subtracted.

4-way entry

A pallet that forks or a pallet jack can enter from all four sides.

Dunnage

Loose material used to support or secure cargo inside a trailer or container.

Racking load

The weight a pallet holds when it rests on two rack beams with an open gap between them. It is usually the lowest rating and only exists for pallets built for racks.

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.

Cube utilisation

How well loaded freight fills the volume of a trailer or container. Taller or wider-than-floor pallets waste cube.

Bulk bag

A large woven bag, often sold as a Super Sack, that holds a ton or so of powder or granules and sits on a square pallet.

Reefer

A refrigerated trailer or container.

Drayage

The short haul of a container between a port or rail ramp and a warehouse.