Nestable and Stackable Pallets: Nevada

Nevada, by road

Nevada is a place where reno looks west over the Sierra to California, and Las Vegas sits on I-15 between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. Pallets here follow I-80, I-15 and I-11, and the distance they travel empty is the cost a nestable cuts.

The counties with the most warehousing jobs are Clark (28,250), Washoe (9,662) and Storey (2,607), which is 96.2 percent of the state's 42,113. It shares a land border with Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Arizona and California.

Warehousing in numbers

Nevada reports no refrigerated warehouse capacity separately in the USDA table we used, so the cold question depends on the individual customer.

Reading the numbers

• Clark County has 28,250 warehousing jobs, 67.1 percent of Nevada's 42,113, the most in the state.
• Washoe County has 9,662 warehousing jobs, 22.9 percent of Nevada's 42,113, 18,588 fewer than Clark County.
• Storey County has 2,607 warehousing jobs, 6.2 percent of Nevada's 42,113, 25,643 fewer than Clark County.
• Warehousing and storage employs 42,113 people in Nevada, 1.00 for every warehousing job.
• Food manufacturing employs 8,424 people in Nevada, 0.20 for every warehousing job.
• Nevada holds 2.21 percent of US warehousing jobs, about one in every 45, spread over 614 establishments averaging 69 jobs each.
• Las Vegas accounts for 28,250 warehousing jobs, 67.1 percent of Nevada's.
• Reno accounts for 12,269 warehousing jobs, 29.1 percent of Nevada's.
• Oregon has 16,750 warehousing jobs, 0.40 times the 42,113 in Nevada.
• Idaho has 2,445 warehousing jobs, 0.06 times the 42,113 in Nevada.
• Utah has 13,683 warehousing jobs, 0.32 times the 42,113 in Nevada.
• Arizona has 52,054 warehousing jobs, 1.24 times the 42,113 in Nevada.

Who ships pallets here

In Nevada, warehousing and storage employs 42,113. 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.

Warehousing and storage is the trade where Nevada is most concentrated, at 2.1 times the national share of employment. A buyer in that trade will tend to ask the questions in the last column first.

The empty return

An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 614 warehouse establishments in Nevada sent back 800 empty pallets in a week, that would be 491,200 pallets. The table counts the 53 ft trailers that takes at three makers' published nestable figures, beside the 540 per trailer of a rackable.

Next door

Metros in Nevada with their own page: Las Vegas and Reno.

Words on this page

Commodity class

A fire-protection category for stored goods and their pallets, used to design sprinkler systems.

Stretch wrap

Elastic film wound around a loaded pallet to hold the load together.

Dunnage

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

Drayage

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

One-way pallet

A light pallet built to carry cargo to a destination and stay there, often used in export.

Cross-docking

Moving freight from an inbound truck to an outbound one with little or no storage between.

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.

Slip sheet

A thin sheet of plastic or fibreboard used under a load in place of a pallet, handled by a push-pull attachment.

Nest ratio

How many empty pallets fit in the height of one: pallet height divided by nest increment.