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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.",{"h2":106,"blocks":107},"The empty return",[108,110],{"t":10,"text":109},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 128 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Phoenix sent back 800 empty pallets in a week, that would be 102,400 pallets. 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