The district pages
Pallets across Central Florida, county by county
ORLANDO, FLA. — Pallets move through four counties around Orlando: Orange, Seminole, Osceola and Lake. Each has its own hub and, below it, the cities and industrial districts whose docks shed and buy pallets.
Four counties, one metro
The Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro had an estimated 2,940,513 residents in 2024, up 2.7 percent from 2023. More than 11 million people live within a two-hour drive. Nine international airports lie within 100 miles and five major seaports are less than two hours away. Freight follows those numbers.
County by county
| County | Seat of the freight | Pages below |
|---|---|---|
| Orange | Airport and Lake Nona, Orlando Central Park, Silver Star and Apopka | Orlando, Orlando Central Park, Airport and Lake Nona, Silver Star and Apopka, Apopka |
| Seminole | Sanford and the I-4 and SR 417 parks | Sanford, Lake Mary, the Sanford Airport District |
| Osceola | New Class A distribution parks | Kissimmee, Poinciana, St. Cloud |
| Lake | Turnpike cross-docks and bottling | Groveland, Clermont, the Turnpike and SR 19 |
The corridor that ties them together
Interstate 4 runs through Seminole, Orange and Osceola counties and links the districts to each other. The I-4 corridor page follows it from Sanford to Celebration.
Why districts
A county is too big to say anything useful about pallets. A district has roads, buildings and a kind of freight, and that decides what its docks shed: Southpark restocks hotels, Apopka ships plants and Groveland turns trailers on a cross-dock.
Three kinds of building, four counties
Industrial space in the metro comes in a few shapes, and the shape says what happens to pallets. A front-load building has doors along one long wall and a truck court in front, so inbound and outbound share a side. A rear-load or cross-dock building has doors on both long walls, so freight can go from one trailer to another without stopping. Older infill warehouses are small and close to the road, with a dock or two. The Groveland cross-dock described on the Lake County pages has 212 dock-high doors; the buildings named in Orlando Central Park range from 75,000 to about 267,000 square feet. A pile in a small building is a few stacks; in a cross-dock it is a stream.
The beltway that now closes
Three expressways ring the metro: the Western Expressway, SR 429, on the west side, the Central Florida GreeneWay, SR 417, on the east, and the connection between them at I-4 in Sanford. The Wekiva Parkway, the 25-mile stretch of SR 429 from US 441 in Apopka to I-4 in Sanford, was completed on 26 January 2024 and closes that ring. For a dock, that means a route from Apopka to Sanford without passing through downtown.
Why these four counties
The Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metropolitan area is made up of Lake, Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties, so the hubs below follow the statistical area, not a delivery route or a company boundary. A dock on the edge of one county can be closer to a neighbour's interchange than to its own county seat.
How to name a location
Say the county, the city or district, and then what the truck uses: an interstate exit, a toll-road interchange or a county road. A line such as "off the Beachline, two exits east of I-4" is more useful than a ZIP code alone, because ZIP boundaries cut across industrial districts and a driver follows roads, not postal lines.
Sources
Last reviewed 12 November 2026.