--- title: "Drive-In Rack in Pickerington, OH | Free Quote" url: https://columbuspalletrack.com/service-area/pickerington/drive-in-rack description: "Drive-In Rack in Pickerington, OH. Free design consultation, layout planning and installation sized to your storage needs. Request a quote." lang: en --- Image: Drive-In Rack system for Pickerington, Ohio warehouses (https://columbuspalletrack.com/__l5e/assets-v1/d993c241-0fdb-4341-bc5e-2ee1c06724a2/drive-in-hero.jpg) 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. 614-379-4436 ## 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 Image: Drive-in pallet rack lanes fitted with continuous rails (https://columbuspalletrack.com/assets/drive-in-pallet-rack-Cg418ibV.jpg) Image: Drive-in warehouse racking loaded with bulk pallets (https://columbuspalletrack.com/__l5e/assets-v1/d993c241-0fdb-4341-bc5e-2ee1c06724a2/drive-in-hero.jpg) ### 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. 1 ### 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. 2 ### 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. 3 ### 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. 4 ### 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 Call 614-379-4436: 614-379-4436 ## Recent Installations Racking projects completed for warehouses across Central Ohio. Image: Drive-in pallet rack system installed in a warehouse (https://columbuspalletrack.com/__l5e/assets-v1/d7a1c8ca-95d3-4a6b-8b88-5669bc50d8d3/project-drive-in.jpg) Drive-in pallet rack Image: Carton flow rack bays with gravity roller beds (https://columbuspalletrack.com/__l5e/assets-v1/deec70bc-f9a9-41d1-88e1-d84430debeb4/project-carton-flow.jpg) Carton flow rack Image: Tall selective pallet rack rows with wire decking (https://columbuspalletrack.com/__l5e/assets-v1/271fad9a-8e01-457f-a6c4-75439a9d25e9/project-tall-rack.jpg) Selective pallet rack Image: Warehouse aisle of selective pallet rack with wire decking (https://columbuspalletrack.com/__l5e/assets-v1/ec800b34-138d-4836-a196-417aff315ecf/project-wire-deck-aisle.jpg) Selective pallet rack with wire decking Image: Newly installed pallet rack rows in an empty warehouse (https://columbuspalletrack.com/__l5e/assets-v1/f9fc12ed-f6ce-48b2-9231-7e5ab2753d05/project-new-install.jpg) New warehouse rack installation Image: Long rows of green and orange selective pallet rack (https://columbuspalletrack.com/__l5e/assets-v1/7560812c-2620-4b02-85f7-8cd166efd7ac/project-green-rack-row.jpg) Selective pallet rack rows Image: Wide view of a warehouse racking layout with wire decking (https://columbuspalletrack.com/__l5e/assets-v1/90e388f8-26ca-4b39-b234-547fd3a0a2b8/project-wide-warehouse.jpg) Warehouse racking layout Image: Multiple rows of pallet rack in a distribution warehouse (https://columbuspalletrack.com/__l5e/assets-v1/83b45cb8-2809-41fc-9763-ff5f1024e2f1/project-rack-rows.jpg) Pallet rack rows Image: Cantilever rack with orange arms installed against a warehouse wall (https://columbuspalletrack.com/__l5e/assets-v1/59422abf-d14c-465d-90c7-e4a16a1ceafb/project-cantilever.jpg) Cantilever rack Image: Push back pallet rack carts and rails installed in a cold storage room (https://columbuspalletrack.com/__l5e/assets-v1/1d567c1f-c824-4abe-a66e-8435f7c784ba/project-push-back.jpg) Push back pallet rack View More Projects: https://columbuspalletrack.com/projects ## Get a Drive-In Rack Quote for Your Pickerington Warehouse Send the basics and we will follow up with a layout and pricing. Prefer to talk it through? Call 614-379-4436. ### Columbus Pallet Rack 4551 Wright Ave. Unit #2092 Columbus, OH 43213 614-379-4436 Monday - Friday: 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM ## Drive-In Rack Questions We Hear Most ### How much weight can pallet rack hold? ### How long does it take to get and install pallet rack? ### What type of pallet rack do I need? ### What aisle width do I need? ## Warehouse Storage Services in Pickerington ### Pallet Rack Every pallet reachable, every time. The baseline we size everything else against. View details https://columbuspalletrack.com/service-area/pickerington ### Pushback Rack Two to six pallets deep from one aisle, without giving up much reach. View details https://columbuspalletrack.com/service-area/pickerington/pushback-rack ### Pallet Flow Rack Load one side, pick the other, and let gravity enforce first in, first out. View details https://columbuspalletrack.com/service-area/pickerington/pallet-flow-rack ### Cantilever Rack Arms with nothing in front of them, built for lumber, pipe, and anything a pallet can't hold. View details https://columbuspalletrack.com/service-area/pickerington/cantilever-rack ### Carton Flow Rack Cases advance to the picker instead of the picker hunting for cases. View details https://columbuspalletrack.com/service-area/pickerington/carton-flow-rack ### Warehouse Relocation Moving buildings without losing the racking plan that already works for your operation. View details https://columbuspalletrack.com/service-area/pickerington/warehouse-relocation ## Nearby Areas We Also Serve Our delivery and installation territory covers Central Ohio, so one team can handle multiple buildings for the same company. Drive-In Rack in Columbus: https://columbuspalletrack.com/service-area/columbus/drive-in-rack Drive-In Rack in Reynoldsburg: https://columbuspalletrack.com/service-area/reynoldsburg/drive-in-rack Drive-In Rack in Lancaster: https://columbuspalletrack.com/service-area/lancaster/drive-in-rack Drive-In Rack in Newark: https://columbuspalletrack.com/service-area/newark/drive-in-rack Drive-In Rack in Canal Winchester: https://columbuspalletrack.com/service-area/canal-winchester/drive-in-rack Drive-In Rack in Obetz: https://columbuspalletrack.com/service-area/obetz/drive-in-rack View All Service Areas: https://columbuspalletrack.com/service-area ## Where We Work Located in Columbus, we serve the entire Greater Columbus region with industrial pallet racks and warehouse storage solutions. ### Columbus Pallet Rack #### Address 4551 Wright Ave. Unit #2092 Columbus, OH 43213 #### Phone 614-379-4436 #### Business Hours Monday - Friday: 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM Saturday: Closed Sunday: Closed ## Need Drive-In Rack in Pickerington? 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