Used plastic pallets in Salinas

Where the warehouses are in Salinas

Count the jobs the BLS can disclose in Salinas and you reach 298 in warehousing and storage for 2025, 0.2% of the metro's private work. The area covers 1 county: Monterey.

Salinas against California

The metro's disclosed-county total set beside the state's whole count, so the two can be read together.

Salinas ZIPs to name on a request

Census ZIP Code Business Patterns for 2023 list 2 ZIPs here with the most warehousing establishments, 13 between them. 93901 (Salinas) leads with 9, 69% of the listed total.

• 93901 Salinas: 9 warehousing establishments, 2.3 times 95012.
• 95012 Castroville: 4 warehousing establishments, 44% of the count in 93901.

What the ratios say

County totals for Salinas are floors, since the BLS hides counties with too few employers to publish; the 298 jobs are the disclosed part.

• Salinas ranks 60th of the 60 metros in the data by disclosed warehousing jobs, with 298 against a median of 13,652.
• Spread across 1 county, that is 298 warehousing jobs per county on average.
• 93901 has 9 warehousing establishments, 2.3 times as many as 95012 (4) at the other end of the list.
• California has 236,923 warehousing jobs in all, so the disclosed counties of Salinas are 0.1% of the state.
• Warehousing is 0.2% of private jobs in these counties; where it is higher than average, pallets are a daily cost and sellers of surplus are common.
• The metros closest in size are Green Bay (584, 286 above).
• The ZIP list spans 2 towns, led by Salinas (9) and Castroville (4).
• The ZIP list averages 6.5 warehousing establishments per ZIP across 2 ZIPs, and the quietest, 95012 Castroville, has 4.
• Reaching the median metro would take 45.8 times the disclosed warehousing jobs Salinas has now.
• For every warehousing job in these counties there are about 499 other private jobs, so pallet-using work is spread thinly across the one county.

Where Salinas ranks

Salinas is the smallest of the 60 metros by disclosed warehousing jobs. The largest, Inland Empire, counts 118,368, which is 397 times as many.

Highways around Salinas

No Interstate corridor in our data lists Salinas, so the county and ZIP figures carry this page.

The ladder around Salinas

Metros ranked by disclosed warehousing jobs: Salinas with the two above it and the two below.

Who buys pallets around Salinas

Against the national share of employment, beverage manufacturing is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Salinas, at 2.4x. Bottlers and brewers use the beverage footprint, with glass and can models; check the stacking rating if loads go three high.

• Beverage manufacturing: 937 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.3% of the 316,938 across the US, or 3.14 for every warehousing job here.
• Grocery and related product wholesale: 2,256 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.3% of the 829,364 across the US, or 7.57 for every warehousing job here.

Wear you can measure

• Deck bow: lay the straight edge across and slide a feeler between it and the deck.
• Runner flattening: compare the thickness of a worn runner with an unworn one.
• Corner loss: hold a square against the corner and note any missing plastic.
• Pocket height: measure the opening at both ends of each fork pocket.
• Weight: weigh three pallets on a platform scale and note the spread.

Photographs worth taking

• One wide shot of each stack with a tape or a person for scale.
• The four corners of a sample pallet, close enough to show gouges.
• The underside, including the runners and the bottom of each fork pocket.
• Any plate, label, moulded number or mark, shot square on and in raking light.
• Repairs and cracks, with a coin or a ruler beside them to show size.

Training the dock crew

• Show new staff three pallets: one acceptable, one marginal, one rejected.
• Agree on words for faults, such as crack, gouge, bow and dish, and use them.
• Tell people to stop and ask when a pallet carries any mark they do not recognise.
• Remind drivers to enter pockets squarely, since angled entry splits the pocket wall.
• Walk the dock together once a month and compare notes.

Yard storage and weather

• Rain does little harm to plastic, but standing water in the ribs adds weight and breeds odours.
• Freezing weather makes some resins brittle, so avoid dropping or hard-forking cold pallets.
• Hot sun softens decks under load, which is how a stack ends up bowed.
• Wind can topple tall unstrapped stacks, so strap them or keep them short.
• Mud and grit on runners wear floors and conveyors, so brush them off before indoor use.

Requesting a lot for Salinas

• Footprint: 56 x 44 in beverage
• Grade: used and clean
• Dock ZIP, for example 93901 or 95012
• Quantity band

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