How much weight can pallet rack hold?

There is no single capacity: beam capacity is per pair, per level, while frame capacity depends on height and beam spacing. We size beams and frames from your heaviest pallet, and capacities go on load plaques.

How long does it take to get and install pallet rack?

Standard teardrop sizes often quick-ship, while high-density systems and non-standard sizes take longer; lead time is confirmed on the quote. Installation time depends on bay count and site readiness, and we schedule it around the approved layout and your operation.

What type of pallet rack do I need?

Selective teardrop rack is the default for mixed SKUs; pushback is two to six deep, LIFO by SKU; pallet flow is for FIFO or dated stock; drive-in is for bulk storage with few SKUs. Cantilever holds long loads, and carton flow serves case picking.

What aisle width do I need?

Aisle width is set by the lift truck: counterbalance trucks typically need about 12–13 feet, reach trucks about 8–10 feet and very-narrow-aisle equipment about 5–6 feet. We confirm actual truck specifications and load dimensions; aisle width has a major effect on storage density.

Pickerington, Ohio

Drive-In Rack in Pickerington, OH

In Pickerington, the call about drive-in rack almost always starts with a smaller building, usually somewhere between 10,000 and 60,000 square feet, near the Diley Road corridor or closer to the US-33 and SR-256 interchange, that got racked once at move-in and never again even as the SKU count and order volume kept climbing. The floor fills up long before anyone sits down to redraw the layout, and by the time someone asks about racking the aisles are already doing double duty as overflow storage. Compact industrial and flex buildings around Pickerington, some within sight of Pickerington Ponds Park, where every aisle decision changes the total pallet count noticeably and seasonal order swings can choke the floor for weeks at a time, mean a layout copied from another building rarely fits once you start measuring.

The forklift drives into the structure itself and sets pallets on continuous rails rather than individual beam levels, so a single lane accepts pallet after pallet at the same elevation with no aisle taking up floor space between them. For a Pickerington operation carrying large volumes of a small number of SKUs, such as bulk buffer stock or seasonal inventory, where the building can live with access to only the open end of each lane, that changes the math on how much of the building is actually usable storage versus floor lost to staging and workarounds. A single open end gives the most positions for the floor space spent, but it also means the last pallet in is the first one picked, so lane assignment has to match how the product actually turns. We measure the building you have along the US-33 and SR-256 corridor and size the system to the pallets, cases or long material you actually move, rather than starting from a catalog layout and hoping it fits.

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Why Pickerington Warehouses Work With Us

Pickerington sits at the intersection of growth along US-33 and SR-256, and the buildings in that mix were not built on one blueprint. Some sit closer to Diley Road, others closer to Pickerington Ponds Park, and clear height, column spacing and dock placement shift from one address to the next. A drive-in rack layout drawn for one of those buildings rarely transfers to another without new measurements.

Pickerington's industrial base includes smaller manufacturing, packaging and distribution operations, and each one puts different demands on a rack system. Large volumes of a small number of skus, such as bulk buffer stock or seasonal inventory, where the building can live with access to only the open end of each lane is the kind of load profile we see repeatedly in buildings around the Diley Road corridor, so the beam, frame or arm sizing we land on tends to track what is actually sitting on the dock rather than a generic spec.

For Pickerington bulk storage, the available floor is not the only constraint. We compare the lift truck dimensions and inventory sequence with each lane so density does not come at the expense of reaching the pallets your team needs next.

Free warehouse consultation

CAD layout with position counts

Installation by trusted installation partners

Drive-in pallet rack lanes fitted with continuous rails

Drive-in warehouse racking loaded with bulk pallets

Operations We Rack Around Here

Nearby areas we work in regularly include the I-70 / SR-256 corridor, Diley Road corridor, Refugee Road industrial, SR-256 business area, Pickerington Commerce.

Light manufacturing

Contract packaging

Regional distribution

Home services supply

How Drive-In Rack Works

Storage lanes replace internal access aisles. Forklifts enter the structure to handle bulk pallets.

Continuous rails, not beams

Pallets rest on rails carried by upright frames rather than individual beam levels, so a lane accepts pallet after pallet at the same elevation.

The truck enters the lane

The driver travels inside the bay to place or retrieve each load. Lane width, rail height, and mast clearance get dimensioned to that specific truck, not a generic one.

One open end or two

One open end gives LIFO and the highest density available. Two open ends give FIFO with slightly fewer positions, since each lane now needs clearance from both sides.

Guarding built into the design

Guide rails, column guards, and rail-end protection are part of the spec from the start, because lift trucks enter the structure during loading and retrieval.

What a Pickerington Drive-In Rack Project Includes

Work on a drive-in rack project for a Pickerington building starts with the load itself: pallet or case dimensions, weight, how the material is packaged, and the lift equipment moving it through the dock. Those numbers, not a catalog default, decide beam length, frame depth, arm spacing or lane pitch.

The forklift drives into the structure itself and sets pallets on continuous rails rather than individual beam levels, so a single lane accepts pallet after pallet at the same elevation with no aisle taking up floor space between them. For buildings around the Diley Road corridor and the US-33/SR-256 area, we draw the lane count, bay dimensions and aisle widths against the clear height and column spacing of the actual space, then return a position count alongside an itemized price broken out by component.

Where large volumes of a small number of SKUs, such as bulk buffer stock or seasonal inventory, where the building can live with access to only the open end of each lane, we compare the proposed system against a plain selective layout of the same footprint so the position gain and the cost per position are both visible before anything is ordered. Steel gets scheduled once the layout is approved, with delivery staged against the receiving and shipping windows the operation already runs on.

Installation crews anchor and plumb every frame, install decking, rails or carts as the system calls for, then label each bay and post the rated capacity so the floor team knows the limits at a glance. Work is phased so the rest of the building keeps operating, and the same crew that installs the system handles later changes — additional bays, elevation changes or a teardown if the operation eventually moves.

High volume of a small number of SKUs

Seasonal or buffer inventory held in bulk

Cold storage and freezer rooms where cube matters most

Product too fragile to floor-stack more than two high

Buildings where floor space, not height, is the binding constraint

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Recent Installations

Racking projects completed for warehouses across Central Ohio.

Drive-in pallet rack system installed in a warehouse — Drive-in pallet rack

Carton flow rack bays with gravity roller beds — Carton flow rack

Tall selective pallet rack rows with wire decking — Selective pallet rack

Warehouse aisle of selective pallet rack with wire decking — Selective pallet rack with wire decking

Newly installed pallet rack rows in an empty warehouse — New warehouse rack installation

Long rows of green and orange selective pallet rack — Selective pallet rack rows

Wide view of a warehouse racking layout with wire decking — Warehouse racking layout

Multiple rows of pallet rack in a distribution warehouse — Pallet rack rows

Cantilever rack with orange arms installed against a warehouse wall — Cantilever rack

Push back pallet rack carts and rails installed in a cold storage room — Push back pallet rack

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