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A plastic pallet load has a ZIP, and the ZIP decides the lane. This hub lists a page for every state, and a page for sixty metros inside them, each built from public employment and business-pattern figures rather than from claims about our own reach.
Each state page names the pallet-using industries with the most private jobs in 2025, quotes the Bureau of Labor Statistics count, and says what share of the national total it is. Each metro page adds the ZIPs with the most warehousing sites and the interstates the metro sits on.
The pages do not claim a depot, a yard or a driver in any place. They say where the pallets are likely to be, and they tell you what to describe.
The Census Bureau groups the states into nine divisions, and freight habits follow them: ports and rail in the Pacific states, long hauls across the Mountain and Plains states, dense short lanes in the Northeast. Each state page opens its freight note with its division.
Your ZIP, the count, the footprint if you know it, and a photograph of the pile from the dock door. The form on the send page takes the rest.
| Division | States | Metro pages | First states |
|---|---|---|---|
| New England | 6 | 0 | Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts |
| the Middle Atlantic | 3 | 7 | New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania |
| the East North Central states | 5 | 9 | Illinois, Indiana, Michigan |
| the West North Central states | 7 | 6 | Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota |
| the South Atlantic | 8 | 12 | Delaware, Florida, Georgia |
| the East South Central states | 4 | 4 | Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi |
| the West South Central states | 4 | 8 | Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma |
| the Mountain states | 8 | 5 | Arizona, Colorado, Idaho |
| the Pacific states | 5 | 9 | Alaska, California, Hawaii |
| Industry | US jobs, 2025 | Largest state |
|---|---|---|
| Warehousing and storage | 1,901,976 | California |
| Food manufacturing | 1,775,008 | California |
| Chemical manufacturing | 892,426 | Texas |
| Grocery and related product wholesale | 829,364 | California |
| Plastics product manufacturing | 575,006 | Ohio |
| Meat and poultry processing | 556,647 | Texas |
| Motor vehicle parts manufacturing | 521,212 | Michigan |
| Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing | 350,886 | California |
These pages do not claim one. Describe the load and the ZIP and we say what we think happens next.
California, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Texas have the most freight, so they were built first. Every state page is built from the same data.
BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages for jobs, and Census Bureau ZIP Code Business Patterns for the ZIP tables.
Five questions and a photo. We say what we think happens next once the pallets have been seen.
Sources, reviewed Nov 12, 2026: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages; Census Bureau, Census divisions.