Request a pallet quote

What makes a pallet request easy to price

Pallets are priced by what they are, not by what they look like from the road. In the trade, a buyer or a recycler wants to know the size, the build, the grade, the count and where the stack stands. A trailer of sorted 48 x 40 Grade B pallets is one conversation. A back lot of mixed sizes, half of them wet, is a different one.

Rain matters here more than most places. A stack that sat uncovered through a Florida summer can have gone from Grade A to cores, and anyone pricing it will ask how it was kept. If you know, say so; if you do not, say that.

Three kinds of request, three different answers

Buying

A buyer is after a grade, a size and a number, sometimes with a heat-treatment stamp for export freight or a spec sheet for a new build. The more exact the description, the closer the first answer.

Selling

A seller has a stack or a steady flow. Sorted stacks of one size and grade sit at one end of the range; mixed loads and cores sit at the other. Recurring surplus from a receiving dock is a different job from a one-off clear-out.

Clearing

A stack that has to leave is judged on whether anything in it can be sold, repaired or recycled. Broken pallets with no resale value are a disposal question, which has its own page.

Where the common questions are answered

If you are still deciding what you have, the grade sheet reads a pallet as A, B, C or core from the repairs and damage you switch on. If you are deciding what you need, the used pallet page and the size table are the quick routes. If the freight is going abroad, read the ISPM 15 guide before you ask for stock.

For a district in particular, the areas hub lists the four counties and the districts inside them, each with the roads and freight that shape its pallet pile.

What this desk does not deal in

This desk is for businesses that move wood pallets every week or have a stack to clear. It is not a shop for liquidation pallets, returned goods or craft and furniture projects, and it does not deal in pallet jacks, racking or plastic pallets.

Nothing here is a price, a minimum or a promised turnaround. A request opens a conversation; it is not an order, and sending one commits neither side.

Writing instead

If the form does not load, write to info@orlandopalletco.com. Say whether you are buying, selling or clearing, and describe the pallets in your own words.

Describing a stack so that it can be read

A good request answers six questions in a few lines. What is it: buying, selling or clearing? What size, with the stringer length first? Which build, stringer or block? About how many, and is that one load or a weekly flow? What condition: grade as best known, dry or wet? Where, by city or district, and how does a truck reach it? A single trailer holds about 26 pallets of 48 x 40 laid straight, so a request can say "a trailer" or "three trailers a month" and be understood.

Photographs help more than adjectives

• The end of a stack, showing stringers and any plugs.
• The top deck in daylight, showing board colour and cracks.
• A tape measure laid on the deck.
• A wide shot that shows the number of stacks and the surface under them.