[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":325},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fidaho":3},{"tier":4,"sections":5,"faq":181,"sources":188,"related":207,"plate":248,"form":259,"scene":260,"path":261,"crumb":21,"ruler":262,"answer":263,"title":264,"h1":264,"description":263,"type":265,"schema":266,"reviewed":269,"crumbs":270,"jsonld":280},3,[6,14,47,64,90,114,148],{"h2":7,"blocks":8},"Idaho, by road",[9,12],{"t":10,"text":11},"p","Start with the map. I-84 crosses the Snake River plain from Oregon to Utah, and potato and dairy freight leaves on it. The Interstates I-84, I-90 and I-15 set the haul lengths, and the longer the haul, the more an empty stack's height matters.",{"t":10,"text":13},"The counties with the most warehousing jobs are Ada (1,025), Canyon (654) and Bonneville (175), which is 75.8 percent of the state's 2,445. It shares a land border with Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and Montana.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Warehousing in numbers",[17,45],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":44},"table",[20,21,22],"Measure","Idaho","How it is worked out",[24,28,32,36,40],[25,26,27],"Private warehousing and storage jobs","2,445","BLS QCEW, NAICS 493, 2025",[29,30,31],"Share of US jobs in the trade","0.13 percent","2,445 against about 1,901,976 nationwide",[33,34,35],"Establishments","146","BLS QCEW",[37,38,39],"Jobs per establishment","17","2,445 ÷ 146, rounded",[41,42,43],"Gross refrigerated space","58 million cu ft","1.5 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. Idaho held 58 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],"Ada County has 1,025 warehousing jobs, 41.9 percent of Idaho's 2,445, the most in the state.","Canyon County has 654 warehousing jobs, 26.7 percent of Idaho's 2,445, 371 fewer than Ada County.","Bonneville County has 175 warehousing jobs, 7.2 percent of Idaho's 2,445, 850 fewer than Ada County.","Fruit and vegetable preserving employs 7,461 people in Idaho, 3.05 for every warehousing job.","Dairy product manufacturing employs 5,027 people in Idaho, 2.06 for every warehousing job.","Food manufacturing employs 21,363 people in Idaho, 8.74 for every warehousing job.","Idaho holds 0.13 percent of US warehousing jobs, about one in every 769, spread over 146 establishments averaging 17 jobs each.","Washington has 36,691 warehousing jobs, 15.01 times the 2,445 in Idaho.","Oregon has 16,750 warehousing jobs, 6.85 times the 2,445 in Idaho.","Nevada has 42,113 warehousing jobs, 17.22 times the 2,445 in Idaho.","Utah has 13,683 warehousing jobs, 5.60 times the 2,445 in Idaho.",{"h2":65,"blocks":66},"Who ships pallets here",[67,86,88],{"t":18,"head":68,"rows":72,"caption":85},[69,70,71],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[73,77,81],[74,75,76],"Fruit and vegetable preserving","7,461","3.05",[78,79,80],"Dairy product manufacturing","5,027","2.06",[82,83,84],"Food manufacturing","21,363","8.74","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":87},"In Idaho, fruit and vegetable preserving employs 7,461. Seasonal volume means a lot of empties for a few weeks, which is where the nest increment pays: a short stack fits a trailer headed back to the field. It tends to lean on nestable, because bins and pallets return to the grower empty, usually in 48 x 40 in, with 48 x 48 where bins are square, and to ask about the static load for the heaviest filled stack.",{"t":10,"text":89},"Fruit and vegetable preserving is the trade where Idaho is most concentrated, at 7.6 times the national share of employment. A buyer in that trade will tend to ask the questions in the last column first.",{"h2":91,"blocks":92},"The empty return",[93,95],{"t":10,"text":94},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 146 warehouse establishments in Idaho sent back 1,200 empty pallets in a week, that would be 175,200 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":96,"rows":101,"caption":113},[97,98,99,100],"Model","Per trailer","Trailers per week","Rackable trailers",[102,107,111],[103,104,105,106],"PHS Plastic EXP 116 nestable","1,260","140","325",[108,109,110,106],"PHS Plastic EXP 100 nestable","2,340","75",[112,104,105,106],"Rehrig Pacific Standard-duty nestable","Trailers = pallets ÷ per-trailer figure, rounded up. 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