[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":306},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fvermont":3},{"tier":4,"sections":5,"faq":165,"sources":172,"related":188,"plate":229,"form":240,"scene":241,"path":242,"crumb":21,"ruler":243,"answer":244,"title":245,"h1":245,"description":244,"type":246,"schema":247,"reviewed":250,"crumbs":251,"jsonld":261},3,[6,14,47,62,84,110,132],{"h2":7,"blocks":8},"Vermont, by road",[9,12],{"t":10,"text":11},"p","I-89 and I-91 are the two spines and the Canadian border is close, so many loads are short regional runs. For a plastic pallet buyer in Vermont, the geography sets the route and the route sets the empty return: I-89, I-91 and I-93 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 Franklin (342), Chittenden (227) and Windham (21), which is 55.8 percent of the state's 1,057. It shares a land border with New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New York.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Warehousing in numbers",[17,45],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":44},"table",[20,21,22],"Measure","Vermont","How it is worked out",[24,28,32,36,40],[25,26,27],"Private warehousing and storage jobs","1,057","BLS QCEW, NAICS 493, 2025",[29,30,31],"Share of US jobs in the trade","0.06 percent","1,057 against about 1,901,976 nationwide",[33,34,35],"Establishments","42","BLS QCEW",[37,38,39],"Jobs per establishment","25","1,057 ÷ 42, rounded",[41,42,43],"Gross refrigerated space","5 million cu ft","0.1 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. Vermont held 5 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],"Franklin County has 342 warehousing jobs, 32.4 percent of Vermont's 1,057, the most in the state.","Chittenden County has 227 warehousing jobs, 21.5 percent of Vermont's 1,057, 115 fewer than Franklin County.","Windham County has 21 warehousing jobs, 2.0 percent of Vermont's 1,057, 321 fewer than Franklin County.","Dairy product manufacturing employs 2,148 people in Vermont, 2.03 for every warehousing job.","Food manufacturing employs 5,348 people in Vermont, 5.06 for every warehousing job.","Vermont holds 0.06 percent of US warehousing jobs, about one in every 1667, spread over 42 establishments averaging 25 jobs each.","New Hampshire has 3,283 warehousing jobs, 3.11 times the 1,057 in Vermont.","Massachusetts has 20,695 warehousing jobs, 19.58 times the 1,057 in Vermont.","New York has 55,371 warehousing jobs, 52.39 times the 1,057 in Vermont.",{"h2":63,"blocks":64},"Who ships pallets here",[65,80,82],{"t":18,"head":66,"rows":70,"caption":79},[67,68,69],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[71,75],[72,73,74],"Dairy product manufacturing","2,148","2.03",[76,77,78],"Food manufacturing","5,348","5.06","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":81},"In Vermont, dairy product manufacturing employs 2,148. Dairy moves through cold rooms and wash bays, so the pallet needs to take both without losing the rating the sheet prints. It tends to lean on stackable or nestable in a cold-friendly resin, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about the maker's cold performance and wash guidance.",{"t":10,"text":83},"Dairy product manufacturing is the trade where Vermont is most concentrated, at 6.7 times the national share of employment. A buyer in that trade will tend to ask the questions in the last column first.",{"h2":85,"blocks":86},"The empty return",[87,89],{"t":10,"text":88},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 42 warehouse establishments in Vermont sent back 500 empty pallets in a week, that would be 21,000 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":90,"rows":95,"caption":109},[91,92,93,94],"Model","Per trailer","Trailers per week","Rackable trailers",[96,101,105],[97,98,99,100],"PHS Plastic EXP 100 nestable","2,340","9","39",[102,103,104,100],"Rehrig Pacific Heavy-duty nestable","1,200","18",[106,107,108,100],"Nelson Company Nestable, stackable, rackable","1,800","12","Trailers = pallets ÷ per-trailer figure, rounded up. 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