I-44 Southwest
Fulfillment and retail distribution near Will Rogers airport, then rail-served industry down to Chickasha.
- 48x40 in trailer volume
- Cores shed by the stack
Pallets in Oklahoma City, where three interstates cross
Buy, sell or clear pallets anywhere in the seven-county metro with one request.
Send a requestPallets bought, sold and cleared where I-35, I-40 and I-44 meet
One junction, five legs, one request
Oklahoma Pallet Co is a pallet site for the Oklahoma City crossroads. Buy graded, new or heat-treated pallets, sell a sorted or mixed load, or clear a pile, all through one request.
Freight crosses Oklahoma City on three interstates, and every load that stops here leaves pallets behind. Fulfillment and retail-distribution buildings by Will Rogers airport shed 48x40s by the trailer. The plants down I-35 in Moore and Norman ship heavy HVAC units. Aerospace suppliers around Tinker want clean stock. Out east, Shawnee's mills and plastics plants need one size and grade by the truckload.
Those docks belong to operations leads, shipping and purchasing leads, yard and shop managers, and store managers with a back lot; liquidation-pallet shoppers and crafters are better served elsewhere. Say what is stacking up, and the Dock Sorter reads it plainly as worth selling, worth sorting or just clearing.
Pick your leg
Five ways out of the crossroads
Each leg runs past a different kind of dock with a different pallet problem. Hover one and its docks light up in the scene above; open it for the towns, the ZIPs and the pallets those docks ship on.
I-40 West
Oilfield-supply and equipment yards through Yukon and El Reno, with the Stockyards just off the interstate.
- Mixed loads kept outdoors
- Odd sizes and skids
I-35 North
Parcel hubs and new industrial buildings on the northeast side, then Edmond and Guthrie.
- Clean 48x40 outbound
- Steady, recurring volume
I-40 East
Tinker, Del City and Midwest City aerospace supply, then the mills and plastics plants of Shawnee.
- Consistent stock in small lots
- Heat-treated for export parts
I-35 South
Moore and Norman: HVAC and equipment plants shipping heavy units on built-to-spec skids.
- New and combo builds
- Broken skids from the back lot
What is on your dock
Sell it, sort it or clear it
Pick what is stacking up. The short answer comes first; the full Dock Sorter adds a count, how often it piles up and where you are.
Sort first, or sell it as a mixed load
A large mixed pile holds cores, Grade B and a few good 48x40s. Pulling the sound 48x40s to one side before you send the request tends to change how the pile reads.
The brands
Every grade and build carries a mark
Cattle in Stockyards City are told apart by brand. Pallets can be too: a plain line for each grade, and where to read more.
Grade A
No repairs, none needed. What outbound loads on a clean dock usually ask for.
Grade B
Repaired with replaced boards, plates or plugs. Sound, cheaper, right for most freight.
Grade C
Poor appearance, several repairs, deck boards that may not be fully intact.
Combo
Rebuilt from recycled and new lumber: more even than used, cheaper than new.
New
All-new lumber, built to a spec sheet instead of pulled from a stack.
Core
A used pallet a dock no longer needs, headed for repair, dismantling or grinding.
Heat treated
Core temperature of 56 °C for 30 minutes, stamped under ISPM 15 for export.
Sizes the metro ships on
Name the footprint first
Most requests turn on size before anything else. These five cover what the junction's docks ask about.
- 48 x 40The GMA standard and the most common North American wood pallet.
- 48 x 45Ranked seventh in North American production; the automotive footprint.
- 48 x 48Often used in the chemical sector, and for drum and tote loads.
- 42 x 42Common in the beverage industry.
- 48 x 42Ranked fifth in North American production; chemical and beverage.
Before the weather turns
A stack left on bare ground drinks the May rain
Oklahoma City's severe-weather season runs mainly March through June and peaks in April and May. May is also the wettest month, with about 5.3 inches on average.
Wood under 20% moisture content will not support mould, mildew or decay. A pallet that sits on soil through a wet spring climbs well above that. The fix is dull and cheap: get stacks off the ground, under cover, with air moving through them, and move the pile before it turns grey.
- Jan1.32
- Feb1.42
- Mar2.55
- Apr3.60
- May5.31
- Jun4.49
- Jul3.59
- Aug3.60
- Sep3.72
- Oct3.32
- Nov1.68
- Dec1.79
Docks that send requests
Who sends a request
- Fulfillment and retail distributionDocks that go through 48x40s by the trailer.
- HVAC and equipmentHeavy units on new-built and combo skids.
- Aerospace and defense supplyClean, consistent stock, sometimes heat treated.
- Oilfield supplyYards where mixed pallets collect outdoors.
- Food and beverageBeverage distribution and the sizes it favours.
- Mills and plasticsOne size and grade at a time for Shawnee's plants.
- Livestock and feedStockyards City and the feed trade around it.
- Stores and small businessA few dozen pallets from a back lot.
The ring board
- Lot
- What you have, or what you need
- Size
- 48x40, 48x45, 48x48, 42x42 or other
- Grade
- A, B, C, combo, new or core
- Count
- A rough number is enough
- Leg
- Which road the dock is on
Send one request
Buy, sell or clear, all through one form. Say what you need, what you have and where the dock is.