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Tool 02 · interactive

Five questions, and a grade to ask for.

Buying up a grade you do not need is the most common way to overspend on pallets. Buying down one you do need is the most expensive. This walks the decision one question at a time and shows the reasoning.
Warehouse aisle lined on both sides with tall stacks of used wood pallets on a polished concrete floor, roof lights overhead
Sorted stacksUsed pallets sorted into stacks by size and condition.

Ask for the specification it gave you

Put the grade and footprint from the result into the form. A partner supplier follows up.

  • Buy, sell, recycle or remove: tell us which way it flows
  • Add the size, grade and quantity if you know them
  • A partner supplier follows up
  • Availability depends on partner suppliers

Partner suppliers follow up by email, so this needs to be a working address.

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

Whole units, digits only.

Delivery or pickup address

Two-letter code or full name.

US ZIP code or Canadian postal code.

Free, no-obligation quote request. A partner supplier follows up with pricing and availability.

Warehouse interior with pallets sorted by type — natural wood, blue pooled units, black plastic and EPAL stamped stacks

Segregation

Pallets sorted by type: natural wood, pooled units, plastic and EPAL.

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Question 1

Does the pallet come back to you?

This single answer decides more than anything else on the page. A pallet that returns is an asset; one that leaves is a consumable.

The logic in this tool is deliberately visible: every suggestion comes with the reason attached, so you can disagree with the reason rather than the conclusion.

In two cases it points away from recycled wood altogether — plastic for wash-down zones, and new stock for automated handling — because those are the right answers there.

What it cannot know

Your racking configuration, your receiver’s specification and your own hazard analysis. Those override anything a five-question tool can tell you.

If two answers apply

Take the stricter one. The cost of over-specifying a pallet is a little more per unit; the cost of under-specifying one in a rack is a dropped load.

Questions

Trusting the recommendation.

What are the five questions?

Does the pallet come back to you, does it go into racking, what is the product, does it cross an international border, and roughly how many a month. Each one is shown with the reason it is being asked, so you can see which of your answers is driving the result.

Which answer changes the recommendation most?

Racking overrides everything. Racked capacity is about a third of static capacity and the stringer is the member that fails in bending at mid-span, so anything that racks gets Grade A, which excludes repaired stringers. After that it is the return question: an asset is bought on cost per cycle, a consumable on price.

What can the tool not know about my operation?

Your racking configuration, your receiver’s written specification and your own hazard analysis. All three override anything five questions can tell you, and where two answers both apply, take the stricter one: over-specifying costs a little more per pallet, under-specifying in a rack costs a dropped load.

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