Pallets in Macomb County

Macomb County had 881,217 people at the 2020 census, with Mount Clemens as the seat. It took 65% of Michigan's federal defense contract dollars in 2024. I-94, I-696, M-53 and M-59 cross it.

Industries

Defense and armored vehicle manufacturing, vehicle assembly, auto engineering, machining and gears

County seat

Mount Clemens

Core ZIPs

48088, 48089, 48090, 48091, 48092, 48093, 48310 through 48317

Corridors

I-94, I-696, M-53 and M-59

With more than 1,100 aerospace and defense companies, the county's freight is heavy and specialized: armored vehicle components, gears, transmissions and machined parts. Warren has the GM Technical Center, Warren Truck Assembly and the Army's TACOM; Sterling Heights has the Ram 1500 plant; Shelby Township has a $163 million transmission plant announced in 2026.

• Heavy parts want block pallets and sound Grade B.
• Assembly docks run on the 48 x 45 and 48 x 40.
• Food distribution in Warren, where Lipari Foods had 1,300 employees in 2022, wants clean dry stock.

Warren is the largest of the three city pages, followed by Sterling Heights and Shelby Township.

The county seat, Mount Clemens, has no page of its own here, but its ZIPs and corridors are in the same freight map. Ask anyway.

Mount Clemens is the seat, but the freight is in the south: Warren, Sterling Heights and Shelby Township. The Detroit Arsenal in Warren houses Army TACOM, which manages vehicle programs and draws a large body of contractors. Those contractors, not the arsenal, are the sources of pallets a buyer can approach.

A route through the county does well to start at the southern edge, where the density is highest, and end in Shelby Township, where the newer plant is rising. The mile roads run east to west and make a convenient grid for a driver.

I-696 and I-94 cross the county east to west, M-53 runs north to south, and M-59 cuts through the middle. A driver planning a multi-stop day uses the highway nearest the first stop and finishes on the mile roads.

Macomb numbers its east-west roads by the mile, from Eight Mile Road on the Detroit line up to 38 Mile Road at the Lapeer County line. Naming the nearest mile road gives a driver a quick fix on location.

A concentration of 6.72 in armored vehicle and tank component manufacturing means the county has several times its share of that work.

• Warren Pallets in Warren: the GM Technical Center, Warren Truck Assembly, Army TACOM at the Detroit Arsenal and Lipari Foods. Sizes, grades and how to start.
• Sterling Heights Pallets in Sterling Heights: Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly, the Ram 1500 plant of 5 million square feet, and defense vehicle makers.
• Shelby Township Pallets in Shelby Township: SAPA Transmission announced a $163 million, 200,000 square foot plant with 328 jobs for military vehicle transmissions.