Pallets

That's up to you.

Talk to your company about it. They might want it. IF they are blue chep pallets those are special, someone owns them.

IF they are damaged and are in the way toss them into the pile at the warehouse and don't talk about them anymore.

 

I sell them. Ask around at a truck stop where can you sell pallets.
3 pallets isn't worth fooling with; ask on the CB at the truck stop if anyone wants them and if not, throw them in the dumpster or just lean them against the dumpster and someone will take them.

 

The places I pick up at have people that drive around with their pick up trucks picking up stuff like pallets and other stuff most of us discard as employment because they know their are places that will pay money for that stuff.

They like to pull up next to me and ask if I have any pallets I don't want.


They like driving behind strip malls and places that sell stuff because they know their stuff gets delivered on pallets.

 

Put on empty flat bed parked next to you at truck stop when driver goes inside. Better yet put on step deck so you don't have to lift them so high.

 

No this is actually a good question.

I don't mind talking pallets now and then. Chinatown's thoughts were very good ones.

Nothing is silly. Unless you want it to be. What I have done in the past with quality pallets that no one wants is chop em up and stored them in the side box as firewood or whatever else that might serve to fill a immediate one time need.

I pretty much made sure that I am out of the pallet business after leaving one particular company. On US 15 in PA south of Williamsport PA is what I call Summit Hill and I used to pull that at 21 mph at 80000 pounds on a tiny 350 big cam engine. with a older Cabover and a 45 foot reefer. (I remember when we got the first 48 footer on there, I thought that was big.) Anyway...

One day I had a full load plus 21 pallets in the nose. GROUND up grade at 16 or so burning Mr Pyrometer a little bit. State Bear impatiently rode my trailer most of the way. Until he whipped around and opened that state platform scalehouse in my face upgrade. I had been well known to him by then running that route 6 days or nights a week at times. My truck was pretty unique in it's crappiness.

Bingo. 81400 gross. Pay them.

Really inconvenient those pallets. Company says fine where are my pallets? Uh... dunno. Ok, that's 3.00 a pallet. Pay me. Ok Boss. I accepted the economic losses in pallets each week rather than the big fines or losses in engine performance which was really crappy in those days with the stupid tall 10 speed on it. (And I have endured in my distaste for those boxes)

BTW that was the last time PA had me as a guest on that specific scale. I ran across Sunbury Dam on the river and right up the east bank to 180 into williamsport. Where it's flat and you can make some time.

 

How do you have pallets left over, I tell my drivers unless there is an open order to return them on deticated runs, they are the receivers problem no matter what.

 

In my case Daddy Tightwad decided to buy 24 pallets for his reefer trailer. Stack em in the nose, the old pallet racks underneath the trailer etc. Pretty hardwood pallets 80 pounds each.

No more fork lifting pallets. Unstack everything off the nice trucking company pallets, shift to warehouse pallets big or small wood at the dock plate and restack pallets in the nose. Talk about a bad back for which I am taking medicine today. The medicine has sufficiently got strong enough to affect my thinking so I'll keep this short.

I started leaving his company pallets inside the shop. He kept buying more. Eventually after about 200 pallets started to cover one of his walls he got the idea to stop buying them.

Made a nice little truckload one night. Pallet processor bought em cash. 12 dollars per.