The rows
| Stack | Build | Best for | Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Used, sorted | Stringer, repaired or not | Warehouses, outbound loads | Used pallets |
| Grade A | No repairs | Clean racking, food-adjacent docks | Grade A |
| Grade B | Replaced boards, plugs | Rack-ready, one-way trips | Grade B |
| Combo | Used and new lumber | Strength at a lower price than new | Combo |
| New | All-new lumber | Spec sheets and sensitive freight | New |
| Custom | Cut to your footprint | Odd products | Custom |
| Heat-treated | ISPM 15 marked | Export crates and containers | Heat-treated |
| Block | Four-way, nine blocks | Import and retail freight | Block |
Four questions that pick the stack
- Where does it go? An export container needs an IPPC-marked pallet; a domestic truck does not.
- What does it carry? A pallet that holds 2,000 lb in a rack needs sound stringers; an empty return trip does not.
- Who sees it? A visible outbound load wants Grade A decks; a warehouse rack hides a Grade B.
- How often? A single trailer and a weekly schedule are asked differently; see truckload orders.
What a price depends on
Size, grade, count, condition and how often you will want more all move the number. The pricing guide explains each lever. A price comes from the facts of the pile, so none is printed on a row.
Not sure what you need?
The stack finder asks what you ship, how heavy it is, whether it leaves the country and how many a week, then shows the matching stack. It assumes standard racking and forklifts. For a plain-language tour of the grades, read pallet grades, read off the stack.
Ask for a price
Tell us the size, grade, count and how often. The form takes the rest.
How the rows are ordered
The rows run from the stock most docks start with to the stock only a few need. Used and sorted pallets sit near the top because they suit most outbound loads. Heat-treated, food-plant and custom stock sit lower, because they answer a particular rule or a particular footprint.
Two ways to start
- Know what you need: open its row, read the placard, and send the request.
- Know what you ship but not what it needs: use the stack finder and carry its answer into the request.
Either way, the request travels with a count and a rhythm, one-off or recurring. Both are what let an answer name a number instead of a range.
Dock questions that decide a purchase
Before you choose a row, look at your own receiving and shipping routine. Walk the dock at the busiest hour of the day and note how pallets move: lifted by counterbalance forklift, dragged by a hand jack, fed to a conveyor or pushed through an automatic wrapper. Each method puts different demands on the wood, and each is a reason to prefer one build or grade over another.
- Counterbalance forklift: tolerant of most builds, hard on cracked stringers.
- Hand pallet jack: needs open bottom boards and a flat floor.
- Conveyor lane: needs a uniform height and flush decks.
- Automatic wrapper: needs a pallet that does not catch film on nails.
- Racking: needs strength across the span between beams.
Money and timing
Nothing on these rows is priced. A price turns on size, grade, quantity, treatment, distance and how soon you need the stock. Naming the deadline, if one is real, lets a reply say whether the stack can meet it, and naming the budget ceiling, if one exists, avoids a round of questions that end where they began.
Terms you will meet on the rows
- Deck: the top and bottom surface boards.
- Stringer: the long timbers between decks.
- Block: the short posts that replace stringers in a block build.
- Entry: how many sides forks can enter from.
- Heat treated: wood held at temperature and marked under ISPM 15.
- Core: a used pallet waiting to be inspected.
The same words recur in every request, so learning them once makes each one shorter. A glossary-minded buyer writes "48 x 40, block, four-way, Grade A, 200 a week" and is understood in one read.