[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":344},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fkentucky":3},{"tier":4,"sections":5,"faq":197,"sources":204,"related":226,"plate":267,"form":278,"scene":279,"path":280,"crumb":21,"ruler":281,"answer":282,"title":283,"h1":283,"description":282,"type":284,"schema":285,"reviewed":288,"crumbs":289,"jsonld":299},3,[6,14,47,67,100,124,164],{"h2":7,"blocks":8},"Kentucky, by road",[9,12],{"t":10,"text":11},"p","Louisville sits on the Ohio River where I-64, I-65 and I-71 meet, and its airport is a UPS hub. For a plastic pallet buyer in Kentucky, the geography sets the route and the route sets the empty return: I-64, I-65, I-71 and I-75 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 Boone (9,121), Bullitt (7,642) and Jefferson (6,859), which is 61.7 percent of the state's 38,281. It shares a land border with Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee and Missouri.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Warehousing in numbers",[17,45],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":44},"table",[20,21,22],"Measure","Kentucky","How it is worked out",[24,28,32,36,40],[25,26,27],"Private warehousing and storage jobs","38,281","BLS QCEW, NAICS 493, 2025",[29,30,31],"Share of US jobs in the trade","2.01 percent","38,281 against about 1,901,976 nationwide",[33,34,35],"Establishments","430","BLS QCEW",[37,38,39],"Jobs per establishment","89","38,281 ÷ 430, rounded",[41,42,43],"Gross refrigerated space","24 million cu ft","0.6 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. Kentucky held 24 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",[53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66],"Boone County has 9,121 warehousing jobs, 23.8 percent of Kentucky's 38,281, the most in the state.","Bullitt County has 7,642 warehousing jobs, 20.0 percent of Kentucky's 38,281, 1,479 fewer than Boone County.","Jefferson County has 6,859 warehousing jobs, 17.9 percent of Kentucky's 38,281, 2,262 fewer than Boone County.","Motor vehicle manufacturing employs 23,308 people in Kentucky, 0.61 for every warehousing job.","Motor vehicle parts manufacturing employs 32,261 people in Kentucky, 0.84 for every warehousing job.","Beverage manufacturing employs 10,105 people in Kentucky, 0.26 for every warehousing job.","Plastics product manufacturing employs 13,820 people in Kentucky, 0.36 for every warehousing job.","Warehousing and storage employs 38,281 people in Kentucky, 1.00 for every warehousing job.","Kentucky holds 2.01 percent of US warehousing jobs, about one in every 50, spread over 430 establishments averaging 89 jobs each.","Louisville accounts for 14,533 warehousing jobs, 38.0 percent of Kentucky's.","Illinois has 80,071 warehousing jobs, 2.09 times the 38,281 in Kentucky.","Indiana has 67,506 warehousing jobs, 1.76 times the 38,281 in Kentucky.","Ohio has 98,354 warehousing jobs, 2.57 times the 38,281 in Kentucky.","West Virginia has 3,631 warehousing jobs, 0.09 times the 38,281 in Kentucky.",{"h2":68,"blocks":69},"Who ships pallets here",[70,96,98],{"t":18,"head":71,"rows":75,"caption":95},[72,73,74],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[76,80,84,88,92],[77,78,79],"Motor vehicle manufacturing","23,308","0.61",[81,82,83],"Motor vehicle parts manufacturing","32,261","0.84",[85,86,87],"Beverage manufacturing","10,105","0.26",[89,90,91],"Plastics product manufacturing","13,820","0.36",[93,26,94],"Warehousing and storage","1.00","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":97},"In Kentucky, motor vehicle manufacturing employs 23,308. Auto buyers pick the footprint from the container and the rating from the heaviest part that rides the pallet. 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 Kentucky is most concentrated, at 6.3 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 430 warehouse establishments in Kentucky sent back 500 empty pallets in a week, that would be 215,000 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":123},[107,108,109,110],"Model","Per trailer","Trailers per week","Rackable trailers",[112,117,121],[113,114,115,116],"Rehrig Pacific Standard-duty nestable","1,260","171","399",[118,119,120,116],"Nelson Company Nestable, stackable, rackable","1,800","120",[122,114,115,116],"PHS Plastic EXP 116 nestable","Trailers = pallets ÷ per-trailer figure, rounded up. 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