[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":344},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Ftennessee":3},{"tier":4,"sections":5,"faq":200,"sources":207,"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},2,[6,14,47,68,97,123,167],{"h2":7,"blocks":8},"Tennessee, by road",[9,12],{"t":10,"text":11},"p","Memphis has the Mississippi River and a FedEx hub, and I-40 crosses the whole state from Memphis to Knoxville. For a plastic pallet buyer in Tennessee, the geography sets the route and the route sets the empty return: I-40, I-65, I-75, I-24 and I-81 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 Shelby (11,727), Wilson (9,641) and Rutherford (5,778), which is 50.8 percent of the state's 53,427. It shares a land border with Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Warehousing in numbers",[17,45],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":44},"table",[20,21,22],"Measure","Tennessee","How it is worked out",[24,28,32,36,40],[25,26,27],"Private warehousing and storage jobs","53,427","BLS QCEW, NAICS 493, 2025",[29,30,31],"Share of US jobs in the trade","2.81 percent","53,427 against about 1,901,976 nationwide",[33,34,35],"Establishments","642","BLS QCEW",[37,38,39],"Jobs per establishment","83","53,427 ÷ 642, rounded",[41,42,43],"Gross refrigerated space","68 million cu ft","1.7 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. Tennessee held 68 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",[53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67],"Shelby County has 11,727 warehousing jobs, 21.9 percent of Tennessee's 53,427, the most in the state.","Wilson County has 9,641 warehousing jobs, 18.0 percent of Tennessee's 53,427, 2,086 fewer than Shelby County.","Rutherford County has 5,778 warehousing jobs, 10.8 percent of Tennessee's 53,427, 5,949 fewer than Shelby County.","Motor vehicle parts manufacturing employs 38,791 people in Tennessee, 0.73 for every warehousing job.","Motor vehicle manufacturing employs 19,453 people in Tennessee, 0.36 for every warehousing job.","Chemical manufacturing employs 27,214 people in Tennessee, 0.51 for every warehousing job.","Warehousing and storage employs 53,427 people in Tennessee, 1.00 for every warehousing job.","Tennessee holds 2.81 percent of US warehousing jobs, about one in every 36, spread over 642 establishments averaging 83 jobs each.","Memphis accounts for 27,742 warehousing jobs, 51.9 percent of Tennessee's.","Nashville accounts for 19,548 warehousing jobs, 36.6 percent of Tennessee's.","Knoxville accounts for 1,751 warehousing jobs, 3.3 percent of Tennessee's.","Kentucky has 38,281 warehousing jobs, 0.72 times the 53,427 in Tennessee.","Virginia has 51,123 warehousing jobs, 0.96 times the 53,427 in Tennessee.","North Carolina has 54,551 warehousing jobs, 1.02 times the 53,427 in Tennessee.","Georgia has 84,730 warehousing jobs, 1.59 times the 53,427 in Tennessee.",{"h2":69,"blocks":70},"Who ships pallets here",[71,93,95],{"t":18,"head":72,"rows":76,"caption":92},[73,74,75],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[77,81,85,89],[78,79,80],"Motor vehicle parts manufacturing","38,791","0.73",[82,83,84],"Motor vehicle manufacturing","19,453","0.36",[86,87,88],"Chemical manufacturing","27,214","0.51",[90,26,91],"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":94},"In Tennessee, motor vehicle parts manufacturing employs 38,791. Suppliers weigh the dynamic rating against the way parts move, and ask whether the pallet nests when it comes back empty. It tends to lean on heavy-duty stackable pallets, nestable on the empty return, usually in 48 x 45 in or 48 x 40 in, and to ask about the dynamic load, since parts travel on forklifts and conveyors all day.",{"t":10,"text":96},"Motor vehicle parts manufacturing is the trade where Tennessee is most concentrated, at 3.5 times the national share of employment. A buyer in that trade will tend to ask the questions in the last column first.",{"h2":98,"blocks":99},"The empty return",[100,102],{"t":10,"text":101},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 642 warehouse establishments in Tennessee sent back 500 empty pallets in a week, that would be 321,000 pallets. 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