New pallets and skids in Nevada

Buying in Nevada

Warehousing is 2.1 times its national concentration in Nevada. Clark County, Las Vegas, has 28,250 jobs; Washoe, Reno, 9,662; and Storey County, east of Reno, 2,607. Those distribution centers buy 48 x 40s by the full truckload and want the same build on every delivery. Food manufacturing is a modest trade here, at 8,424 jobs, and vehicle assembly smaller still, so nearly every request is for plain distribution pallets rather than plant-specified builds. Give the dock’s receiving hours with the request, along with any appointment system the building uses for inbound trailers, and whether a forklift or only a pallet jack will unload them. Auto parts employs 744 and vehicle assembly 339, small beside the 614 warehousing establishments.

Automated distribution centers in Clark and Washoe counties read pallets with sensors and move them on conveyors and shuttles. Those systems are unforgiving: a pallet that is out of square, has a missing bottom board or sits higher than the last one can stop a line. Write the tolerances on the request if your system has them, along with the rack beam spacing. Retail freight mixes heavy and light cartons on one pallet, so give the heaviest load you expect, not the average, and say how many pallets a week the building turns over.

Send the size, the load per pallet, the quantity and a Nevada delivery ZIP. We write the build down as a spec, quote new pallets against it with delivery priced in, and reorders follow the same sheet.