2002 - 2020, warehousing employment in So Cal went up 1583%. Not a typo.
2012 - 20, up 380% or 80,200 workers.
2019 to 2020 it went up 30% or 23k employees in 1 year.
That's annual average, not counting seasonal bumps.
The problem in SoCal is warehousing is too congested. To find new, available workers you need to get outside the area and no one's gonna commute 3-4 hours a day for a warehouse job.
Shippers and warehouses need to bite the bullet and either move farther inland for storage (with higher transport costs) or start using Houston, Savannah, Portland, Oakland etc but that has high cost as well and it would take years for inland transportation networks to shift and adjust to new OD pairs and pricing.
