Used plastic pallets in Laredo

Where the warehouses are in Laredo

Laredo spans 1 county (Webb). In the counties where the Bureau of Labor Statistics can publish, private employers had 2,014 warehousing and storage jobs in 2025, 2.4% of local private jobs.

Laredo against Texas

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

Laredo ZIPs to name on a request

Census ZIP Code Business Patterns for 2023 list 3 ZIPs here with the most warehousing establishments, 85 between them. 78045 (Laredo) leads with 72, 85% of the listed total.

• 78045 Laredo: 72 warehousing establishments, 7.2 times 78041.
• 78041 Laredo: 10 warehousing establishments, 14% of the count in 78045.
• 78043 Laredo: 3 warehousing establishments, 4% of the count in 78045.

What the ratios say

County totals for Laredo are floors, since the BLS hides counties with too few employers to publish; the 2,014 jobs are the disclosed part.

• Laredo ranks 54th of the 60 metros in the data by disclosed warehousing jobs, with 2,014 against a median of 13,652.
• Spread across 1 county, that is 2,014 warehousing jobs per county on average.
• 78045 has 72 warehousing establishments, 24.0 times as many as 78043 (3) at the other end of the list.
• Texas has 175,579 warehousing jobs in all, so the disclosed counties of Laredo are 1.1% of the state.
• Warehousing is 2.4% of private jobs in these counties; where it is higher than average, pallets are a daily cost and sellers of surplus are common.
• One Interstate in the data serves the metro, and it carries 147,019 warehousing jobs along the route.
• The metros closest in size are New Orleans (2,090, 76 above) and Hagerstown (1,842, 172 below).
• The top three ZIPs, 78045, 78041, 78043, hold 85 of the 85 establishments in the ZIP list, or 100%.
• The ZIP list averages 28.3 warehousing establishments per ZIP across 3 ZIPs, and the quietest, 78043 Laredo, has 3.
• Reaching the median metro would take 6.8 times the disclosed warehousing jobs Laredo has now.
• For every warehousing job in these counties there are about 41 other private jobs, so pallet-using work is spread thinly across the one county.

Where Laredo ranks

Laredo is one of the 7 smallest of the 60 metros by disclosed warehousing jobs. The largest, Inland Empire, counts 118,368, which is 59 times as many.

Highways around Laredo

Interstate 35 is the Interstate in our data that serves Laredo.

Other metros nearby

Metros that share a corridor with Laredo, and the other metros in Texas, with their disclosed warehousing jobs.

The ladder around Laredo

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

Who buys pallets around Laredo

Against the national share of employment, warehousing and storage is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Laredo, at 1.7x. Warehouses with automated storage need a consistent size for conveyors and a rack rating they can read.

• Warehousing and storage: 2,014 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.1% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job here.

Paperwork to keep

• The written lot description and the date it was sent.
• Your own count, signed and dated by whoever received the load.
• Photographs of stacks, plates and any marks, stored with the order number.
• The maker's papers for resin, colour or rating, where the job needs them.
• A line naming who agreed to which exceptions, so a later dispute has a record.

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.

What to send for a Laredo lot

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in, one maker
• Grade: used and clean with a stated rating
• Dock ZIP, for example 78045 or 78041
• Quantity band

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