Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

I like the blue Pepsi pallets that you typically see at Walmart. Heavy as hell but they are almost impossible to destroy.

We repurpose those long 10+ foot pallets to ship load bars back to the mega barns that have a bunch of outbound. If I have a customer with a long pallet like that, they usually have way more freight on it than I have time to see them break it all down; in which case I leave them with it.

 

@road_runner dont forget those tempur pedic pallets, them pallets are impossible to destroy as well just like the chep pallets(blue skids).

 

Speaking of pallets- those plastic pallets and recycled pallets are garbage

 

Plastic is lighter. But yeah, one poor approach angle and you pretty much cut large chunks out of it with your forklift tines.

 

Yup. They don't stand a chance with a 'special' forklift driver

 

Yeah, I tried to spin one cause the freight hung over on one side. Immediate crunch and a bunch of plastic falling off.

 

Speaking of pallets, I delivered to a customer today and mentioned the pallets their shipper had used were in bad shape.
He replied, "Have you seen the price of new pallets lately?"
This place only uses new pallets because of the product they ship out.
Apparently pallets have gone up in price quite a bit.
So, stand by for some shoddy B grade rebuilts making the rounds.

 

Im going to steal that forklift not forkpush line...