(949) 285-6101 Straight through to the people who install the racking.

Best Rack designs, permits, installs and inspects warehouse racking for Fontana businesses, and has been doing it across Southern California for 30 years.

Tell us the pallet, the forklift and the ceiling height and we will lay the building out. The onsite visit is free, and it happens before anyone quotes you steel.

Racking for Fontana warehouses

Fontana handles metal. California Steel Industries still runs on the old Kaiser Steel site, and the supplier and service-center business around it means a lot of Fontana warehouse space holds product that does not palletize: bar, tube, pipe, coil, plate, lumber and more. That is cantilever work. Arm capacity is rated per level, and the column and base have to be calculated against the load actually going on them, including the load an extended arm puts back into the column. We calculate that for the product on hand rather than assuming a standard pallet.

The rest of the city is distribution and there is a great deal of it, sitting on the I-10 and I-15 junction with big-box space along Sierra and Cherry Avenues, Union Pacific gate operations on Slover, and the West Valley Logistics Center Specific Plan approved in the southeast for about 3.6 million square feet of industrial commerce space. Where the product is palletized in Fontana it tends to be dense, so beam deflection and slab bearing govern the design well before height does.

Fontana yards work hard and the damage shows at the aisle ends where lift trucks turn in. Upright protection and end-of-row guarding belong in the design here, not in a later repair.

We pull the building permit and the fire permit as part of the job, so the paperwork does not land on your desk.

Systems we install in Fontana

Selective pallet rack

Every pallet reachable from the aisle. The default where the SKU count is high and the pallet count per SKU is low.

Drive-in rack

Forklift drives into the lane. Highest density per square foot, LIFO rotation, one SKU per lane.

Push-back rack

Two to six pallets deep on nested carts. Density without giving up a lane per SKU.

Cantilever rack

Arms instead of beams, for pipe, lumber, tubing and anything that will not sit on a pallet.

Mezzanines

A second level built inside the building. Adds floor area for storage, picking or work space without moving.

Bulk storage and shelving

Hand-stacked cartons on boltless shelving, with wire decks or particleboard.

We also supply wire decks, conveyors, pallet jacks and more.

Rack inspections in Fontana

Forklift impact bends uprights, and a bent upright loses capacity long before it looks dangerous. We inspect racking against the manufacturer’s configuration, classify what we find by severity, and give you a written report.

See how a warehouse rack inspection works

Schedule a free onsite visit

We measure the space before we quote it.

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    To book a rack inspection, talk through a storage layout, or schedule an onsite visit, call Best Rack at (949) 285-6101.