Request a lot of used plastic pallets

How the Lot matcher decides

The matcher uses only this site's own definitions of the four grades and what each is fit for. It does not know what stock exists and it states no price. It tells you which grades suit your answers, which to avoid and why, so the request you send already says what you can accept.

What happens after you send it

1. A person reads the request and checks it against lots that can be matched.
2. The reply describes a lot in writing: footprint, wear, makers, repairs, marks and ratings where they are known.
3. Price, freight and timing are settled in that reply and are not published here.

Reading the verdict labels

Fits means the grade matches what you told the matcher and nothing in the dossier argues against it. Check first means it can work, but a paper or a plate has to confirm something, such as a rating or food-contact documents. Avoid means the grade conflicts with a stated need, and the reason sits beside it. The labels are advice about what to ask for; they are not a promise that a lot exists in that grade.

You can change any answer and the labels update at once, and you can send the request with a grade the matcher marks Avoid if you have a reason. The note that travels with the request records the choices you made, so the reply can speak to them directly.

What is sent and what is not

The request carries your footprint, grade, use, deck and entry, a quantity, a ZIP, your name, phone and email, and the note the matcher composes from your choices. It does not carry the verdicts. Texting is off unless you tick the box. The honeypot field and the lead route are the same ones every page of this site uses, and no price or stock figure comes back in the reply to the form itself.

Quantity bands and what they mean

Quantity is asked as a number, but think in bands: a few pallets for a trial, a pallet-load of stacks, a full truck, or several trucks over a season. The band tells the desk how a lot should be sorted and loaded, and whether mixed makers are acceptable. If your need is irregular, say so and give the largest single delivery your dock can receive.

Using the matcher with a team

Purchasing, operations and safety often hold different pieces of the answer. Purchasing knows the quantity and the date, operations knows the footprint, the conveyors and the racks, and safety knows whether a mark, a weld or a missing plate is acceptable. Walk through the matcher together on one screen, agree on each answer, and send a single request. It saves a second round of questions and keeps the written reply easy to forward.

If the matcher shows only Avoid

Sometimes every grade comes back marked Avoid, because the answers pull in opposite directions: a racking rating together with another owner's mark, for instance. That is a signal to change one answer, not a fault in the page. Relax the rating, move to a different use, or choose a mixed lot and sort it yourself. If none of that works, send the request anyway and say what you cannot move; a person will read the reasoning and reply in writing.

Why the matcher asks about marks

Marks are asked about because they change what can be sold. A plain pallet can be offered to any buyer, a pallet with the buyer's own name can go back to that buyer, and a pallet with another owner's name or logo may not be ours or yours to trade at all. Choosing the second or third option does not slow the request; it tells the reader to look for marks before a lot is described, and the reply says what was found.

Leave the note field alone unless you have something to add. It is filled in from your choices, and anything you write over it replaces that summary, so add your own words after it rather than instead of it.

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