Talk:Pallet

Photos added
Today I added a picture of a pallet to the article. I use pallets at work all the time, and I own a digital camera. Thus, if anyone has a suggestion for how to improve the picture, I can easily oblige. --Dbenbenn 03:15, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

And here's a picture of a more typical wooden pallet. It's the ISO standard size, 100 by 120 by 12 cm. (I measured it!) The glove is there for scale. The plastic pallet is the same size, except it's 14 cm tall. --Dbenbenn 03:07, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

ISO number for pallet standardization?
Anybody know the ISO number for pallet standardization? Dbenbenn 18:35, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Yes, it is ISO 6780. It lists six different pallet sizes. The 100 by 120 size is one of the most common ones in Europe, but it is also found elsewhere around the globe. There are other ISO standards relevant to pallets. See the list at http://www.unitload.vt.edu/palstand.htm --AlainV 01:08, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

In ISO 6780 pallet length is defined as "deck dimension in the direction of stringers or stringerboards" and "If these members are not present, the length is the longer deck dimension." We should add this to the article. This would clarify the diffence between the entries under North American pallets for 40x48 and 48x40. And it would explain why a EUR1 pallet is 800x1200mm and NOT 1200x800mm. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.235.154.51 (talk) 10:04, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

Wasted floor
In the section "ISO pallets" I think the 15.2% value in the last row is incorrect. In my calculations I got a maximum of 11 EURO palettes into a 20ft-container with a "floor wasted" result of approx 24% (inside dimensions I = 5.91*2.345 m² = 13.85895 m², pallet area A = 11 * 0.98 * 1.2 m² = 10.56 m², A / I = 0.761962, 1 - A / I = 0.238038).

For 40 ft container I got approx. 20% with 23 EURO pallets.

Is there a way to stuff even more pallets inside? Regards --84.59.143.177 (talk) 01:13, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

-- careful --

pallets in containers have to go in pairs, 2 side by side. In every container, there has to be 1 to 2 feet wasted on the end for the dock plate. When a container is parked at a loading dock to be able to run a forklift in it, a docking mechanism 'dock plate' has to be placed there, therefore you cant shuw the container full of pallets.

max number of palets = length of container \ length of palet * 2. professionally I have shuwed over 50 loaded pallets in a 52' (yes 52' not 54' there is 2 feet for the dock plate so only 52 counts), one on top of each other, that is done commonly in LTL shipments where mixed shipments are sent in one container.

nominal load 48' = 24 pallets. 52' = 26 pallets

P.S. don't forget that the pallets are unperfect and small gaps need to be left between them, so into a 8' wide container you cannot put 2 x 48" pallets side by side (mathematicaly it fits, but in real life it doesn't). You have to pinwheel them = one goes in the wide side, the other the long side = 22 pallets per container.

regards -- [ a warehouse worker with a lot of experience with pallets (wooden) ] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.22.249.253 (talk) 21:32, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

I've tagged all the percentages for citations as they are clearly incorrect. If using interior dimensions the 1100x1100 fits 5x2 = 10 per TEU giving a wastage of 9.9% whereas the 1165x1165 fits 4x2 = 8 per TEU giving a wastage of 19.15% vs the article's claimed 14% and 8.1%. The data should either be fixed and cited or removed - 203.52.44.138 (talk) 01:39, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Trailer width
Comments for looking at later. A trailer of 96" would be a hard fit for two 48" pallets. In the US most trailers have been 102" wide for sometimes now. Otr500 (talk) 16:20, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

Content error
I worked in the pallet manufacturing industry for several years and read in the Pallet section, "Of the top pallets used in North America, the most commonly used by far is the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) pallet, which accounts for 30% of all new wood pallets produced in the United States.". Maybe I read this wrong but we manufactured pallets following GMA and NWPCA specification but the majority of orders were for specialized pallets. I looked at the source and it states ''"The 48x40-inch pallet is the most common pallet size in the U.S., representing about 30% of the pallets produced each year. Adding by far is an exaggeration that does not seem to be supported by the source so maybe I missed it. Otr500 (talk) 13:59, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

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