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Pallets in Peoria, IL.

Heavy equipment components need engineered platforms rather than standard footprints, usually built to a drawing.
View into a loaded trailer stacked to the roof with wood pallets, rear doors open to blue sky
LoadedAbout 330 units, two high, roughly 15,000 lb in a trailer rated for three times that. Pallet loads cube out long before they gross out.

Price a load into Peoria

Quantity, footprint and ZIP. You will get a written quote with the grade, the freight and the window — or an honest referral if we are the wrong supplier for this lane.

  • Written quotes, usually inside one business day
  • Loads from 100 pallets to full 53' trailers
  • We buy as readily as we sell — tell us which way it flows

We reply by email, so this needs to be a working address.

US or Canadian 10-digit number. Formats itself as you type.

Two-letter code or full name.

US ZIP (43217) or Canadian postal code (K1A 0B1).

Whole units, digits only.

No phone number required from us — we quote by email so you have the numbers in writing.

Warehouse aisle lined on both sides with tall stacks of used wood pallets on a polished concrete floor, roof lights overhead

Inside the building

The sort aisle at half past seven. Graded stock on the left, waiting to be worked on the right.

355 mi

From our yard

About 5 hours 30 minutes to Chicago

400,000

Metro population

Peoria County

I-74

Primary route

I-74 · I-474 · US-24

Scheduled contract freight

Service tier

Illinois is a extended-tier market.

Local picture

What moves through Peoria.

Heavy equipment components need engineered platforms rather than standard footprints, usually built to a drawing.

Peoria sits in Peoria County, served by I-74, I-474 and US-24. The local freight base is heavy equipment, agricultural processing, river freight, and that mix is what determines which pallet specification actually makes sense here rather than which one is cheapest on paper.

Peoria is served on scheduled contract freight from Columbus, roughly 355 miles away. That works for full trailer loads and program volume; for a few hundred units, a local yard will beat us and we will say so.

Industry base

  • Heavy equipment
  • Agricultural processing
  • River freight

Routes serving Peoria

  • I-74
  • I-474
  • US-24

What ships in Illinois

48×40 GMA for program volume, specialty and custom footprints, heavy-deck stock for the downstate agricultural processing belt.

Matching the spec to the work

What Peoria's industry base actually needs.

Different sectors want opposite things from the same rectangle of wood. These are the rules we apply locally.
Applied to the sectors listed for Peoria. Your own hazard analysis and racking govern.
Local sectorUsual gradeFootprintThe non-negotiable
Heavy equipmentGrade A, returnable48×45, customDimensional consistency and repairability
Agricultural processingGrade A or B48×40Depends on whether the pallet comes back
River freightMixed, ISPM-15Import footprintsHeat treatment and legible marking

Questions

Pallets in Peoria.

Can you deliver pallets to Peoria?

Served on scheduled contract carriers rather than our own trailers. Economic for full trailer loads and program volume; less so for small orders. Peoria is about 355 road miles from our yard, about 5 hours 30 minutes to chicago.

Do you collect used pallets from Peoria?

Collection at this distance only works on volume — a full trailer of sorted cores, or a program arrangement. For smaller quantities a regional recycler is the right call. See sell your pallets.

What do pallets cost in Peoria?

Recycled 48×40 GMA has run roughly $7.50 to $12.00 for Grade A and $5.00 to $8.50 for Grade B in our home market, before freight. Delivered pricing to Peoria depends on the distance above and the order size, which is why we quote delivered rather than FOB.

What is the local industry mix?

Heavy equipment, Agricultural processing, River freight. That mix is what decides the specification — see the table above, and industries for the full detail on each sector.

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