[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":335},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Falabama":3},{"tier":4,"sections":5,"faq":185,"sources":192,"related":217,"plate":258,"form":269,"scene":270,"path":271,"crumb":21,"ruler":272,"answer":273,"title":274,"h1":274,"description":273,"type":275,"schema":276,"reviewed":279,"crumbs":280,"jsonld":290},3,[6,14,47,66,100,126,152],{"h2":7,"blocks":8},"Alabama, by road",[9,12],{"t":10,"text":11},"p","Mobile gives it a Gulf port, and I-65 carries freight north to Birmingham, Nashville and Louisville. For a plastic pallet buyer in Alabama, the geography sets the route and the route sets the empty return: I-65, I-20, I-59 and I-85 carry most of what leaves, and every empty pallet that comes back has to ride the same road.",{"t":10,"text":13},"The counties with the most warehousing jobs are Jefferson (6,920), Mobile (2,677) and Montgomery (1,955), which is 52.8 percent of the state's 21,880. It shares a land border with Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Warehousing in numbers",[17,45],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":44},"table",[20,21,22],"Measure","Alabama","How it is worked out",[24,28,32,36,40],[25,26,27],"Private warehousing and storage jobs","21,880","BLS QCEW, NAICS 493, 2025",[29,30,31],"Share of US jobs in the trade","1.15 percent","21,880 against about 1,901,976 nationwide",[33,34,35],"Establishments","306","BLS QCEW",[37,38,39],"Jobs per establishment","72","21,880 ÷ 306, rounded",[41,42,43],"Gross refrigerated space","43 million cu ft","1.1 percent of the US 3.99 billion","",{"t":10,"text":46},"Refrigerated space matters because a freezer is hard on plastic; the [cold guide](\u002Fguides\u002Fplastic-pallets-in-the-cold) says what to ask for. Alabama held 43 million cubic feet of gross refrigerated warehouse capacity on October 1, 2025.",{"h2":48,"blocks":49},"Reading the numbers",[50],{"t":51,"items":52},"ul",[53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65],"Jefferson County has 6,920 warehousing jobs, 31.6 percent of Alabama's 21,880, the most in the state.","Mobile County has 2,677 warehousing jobs, 12.2 percent of Alabama's 21,880, 4,243 fewer than Jefferson County.","Montgomery County has 1,955 warehousing jobs, 8.9 percent of Alabama's 21,880, 4,965 fewer than Jefferson County.","Motor vehicle manufacturing employs 22,311 people in Alabama, 1.02 for every warehousing job.","Motor vehicle parts manufacturing employs 29,218 people in Alabama, 1.34 for every warehousing job.","Meat and poultry processing employs 24,973 people in Alabama, 1.14 for every warehousing job.","Plastics product manufacturing employs 14,217 people in Alabama, 0.65 for every warehousing job.","Food manufacturing employs 33,728 people in Alabama, 1.54 for every warehousing job.","Alabama holds 1.15 percent of US warehousing jobs, about one in every 87, spread over 306 establishments averaging 72 jobs each.","Mississippi has 25,454 warehousing jobs, 1.16 times the 21,880 in Alabama.","Tennessee has 53,427 warehousing jobs, 2.44 times the 21,880 in Alabama.","Georgia has 84,730 warehousing jobs, 3.87 times the 21,880 in Alabama.","Florida has 105,401 warehousing jobs, 4.82 times the 21,880 in Alabama.",{"h2":67,"blocks":68},"Who ships pallets here",[69,96,98],{"t":18,"head":70,"rows":74,"caption":95},[71,72,73],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[75,79,83,87,91],[76,77,78],"Motor vehicle manufacturing","22,311","1.02",[80,81,82],"Motor vehicle parts manufacturing","29,218","1.34",[84,85,86],"Meat and poultry processing","24,973","1.14",[88,89,90],"Plastics product manufacturing","14,217","0.65",[92,93,94],"Food manufacturing","33,728","1.54","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":97},"In Alabama, motor vehicle manufacturing employs 22,311. Assembly plants run closed loops with fixed footprints, and 48 x 45 in matches heavy-duty auto parts bulk containers. It tends to lean on heavy-duty stackable pallets in a closed loop, usually in 48 x 45 in, and to ask about the dynamic load for the heaviest part and the pallet's fit with the bulk container.",{"t":10,"text":99},"Motor vehicle manufacturing is the trade where Alabama is most concentrated, at 6 times the national share of employment. A buyer in that trade will tend to ask the questions in the last column first.",{"h2":101,"blocks":102},"The empty return",[103,105],{"t":10,"text":104},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 306 warehouse establishments in Alabama sent back 500 empty pallets in a week, that would be 153,000 pallets. The table counts the 53 ft trailers that takes at three makers' published nestable figures, beside the 540 per trailer of a rackable.",{"t":18,"head":106,"rows":111,"caption":125},[107,108,109,110],"Model","Per trailer","Trailers per week","Rackable trailers",[112,117,121],[113,114,115,116],"Rehrig Pacific Heavy-duty nestable","1,200","128","284",[118,119,120,116],"Rehrig Pacific Standard-duty nestable","1,260","122",[122,123,124,116],"PHS Plastic EXP 100 nestable","2,340","66","Trailers = pallets ÷ per-trailer figure, rounded up. 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