Used plastic pallets in Hawaii

Hawaii in numbers

A pallet moves wherever a warehouse does, and Hawaii has 57 of them by the BLS establishment count, with 1,298 jobs between them and 22.8 per site on average.

Hawaii against the country

Read across: what Hawaii has, what the whole country has, the slice Hawaii takes, and where that puts it in the state ranking when a rank exists.

What the ratios say

Small counties in Hawaii are hidden by BLS disclosure rules, so read the 1,298 state figure as the total and the county lines as a floor.

• At 22.8 jobs per establishment against 81.5 across the US, Hawaii's warehouses run smaller than the national average by 72 percent.
• Food manufacturing employs 4.65 people for every warehousing job in Hawaii; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• Hawaii holds 0.34% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 0.07% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the heavier of the two lines here.
• North Dakota runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 23.6 jobs per establishment against 22.8 here.
• For food manufacturing, New Mexico is the closest match at 6,374 jobs, 342 above Hawaii's 6,032.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; Hawaii holds 0.07%, which is 0.04 times an even share.
• North Dakota sits above Hawaii with 140 more warehousing jobs, and Vermont sits below with 241 fewer.

Where Hawaii ranks

Hawaii is one of the 4 smallest states by warehousing jobs. The median state has 23,211, so Hawaii is 21,912 jobs below it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 183 times as many.

Who buys pallets in Hawaii

Measured against the national share of employment, grocery and related product wholesale is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Hawaii, at 1.7 times the national figure. Grocery wholesale runs on the 48 x 40 GMA footprint through racks, trailers and conveyors.

• Grocery and related product wholesale: 5,408 jobs in Hawaii, 0.65% of the 829,364 across the US, or 4.17 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Food manufacturing: 6,032 jobs in Hawaii, 0.34% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 4.65 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around Hawaii

Sorting all 50 states by warehousing jobs puts Hawaii 47th. The rows around it show how close the next states are.

Hawaii has no metro page

None of the sixty logistics metros sits in Hawaii, so this page serves the whole state. The reply to a request from Hawaii says how a lot would reach you.

Labelling stacks

• Put a card on each stack with footprint, grade and the date it was sorted.
• Use one colour of tape for repaired pallets and another for held ones.
• Keep labels at fork-truck eye level, not on the lowest pallet.
• Update the card when a pallet is removed, so the count stays true.
• Retire old cards instead of writing over them.

Safe handling at the stack

• Lift with the tines fully under the load and tilt back slightly before travelling.
• Never climb a stack, and never stand beside one while it is being moved.
• Take a damaged pallet out of service at once and tag it, so nobody reloads it.
• Keep stack heights even and edges square, since a leaning stack feeds on itself.
• Match tine length to the pallet, because short tines can crack the underside of a deck.

When something looks wrong

• Stop unloading and photograph the fault before anything moves.
• Count how many pallets show the same fault, to see if it is a lot problem or a one-off.
• Tell the desk or the seller in writing the same day, with the photographs attached.
• Hold the affected stacks apart until you hear back.
• Keep one sample pallet unused, so the maker or an inspector can examine it.

Asking for a lot in Hawaii

USDA published no refrigerated warehouse figure for Hawaii in its October 2025 count, so this page makes no cold-storage claim.

• Ask for used and clean in 48 x 40 in
• Write the Hawaii ZIP where the lot will land
• Say how many pallet-loads, or whether you need a truck

Other states

• California
• Louisiana
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• New York
• North Dakota
• South Carolina
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Vermont
• Virginia
• West Virginia

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