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Pallets in Dover, DE.

Dover Air Force Base drives defence packaging and documented crating requirements.
Warehouse interior with pallets sorted by type — natural wood, blue pooled units, black plastic and EPAL stamped stacks
SegregationSorted by type, not by convenience. Pooled units go back to the pool; plastic runs a separate stream entirely.

Price a load into Dover

Quantity, footprint and ZIP. You will get a written quote with the grade, the freight and the window — or an honest referral if we are the wrong supplier for this lane.

  • Written quotes, usually inside one business day
  • Loads from 100 pallets to full 53' trailers
  • We buy as readily as we sell — tell us which way it flows

We reply by email, so this needs to be a working address.

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

Two-letter code or full name.

US ZIP (43217) or Canadian postal code (K1A 0B1).

Whole units, digits only.

No phone number required from us — we quote by email so you have the numbers in writing.

Recycling yard with a steel bin full of broken pallet wood, a grinder conveyor, stacks of pallets and a forklift beyond

The last four per cent

Everything the sort deck rejected, on its way to the grinder. It leaves as mulch, bedding and boiler fibre — not as landfill.

480 mi

From our yard

About 7 hours 30 minutes

185,000

Metro population

Kent County

US-13

Primary route

US-13 · SR-1 · US-113

Scheduled contract freight

Service tier

Delaware is a extended-tier market.

Local picture

What moves through Dover.

Dover Air Force Base drives defence packaging and documented crating requirements.

Dover sits in Kent County, served by US-13, SR-1 and US-113. The local freight base is defence logistics, food processing, state government, and that mix is what determines which pallet specification actually makes sense here rather than which one is cheapest on paper.

Dover is served on scheduled contract freight from Columbus, roughly 480 miles away. That works for full trailer loads and program volume; for a few hundred units, a local yard will beat us and we will say so.

Industry base

  • Defence logistics
  • Food processing
  • State government

Routes serving Dover

  • US-13
  • SR-1
  • US-113

What ships in Delaware

Remanufacturing of import and fruit footprints, hygiene-sorted Grade A for poultry, standard GMA for distribution.

Matching the spec to the work

What Dover's industry base actually needs.

Different sectors want opposite things from the same rectangle of wood. These are the rules we apply locally.
Applied to the sectors listed for Dover. Your own hazard analysis and racking govern.
Local sectorUsual gradeFootprintThe non-negotiable
Defence logisticsNew, documentedBuilt to drawingMaterial history and tight tolerance
Food processingGrade A, odour-sorted48×40Moisture under 19% and known provenance
State governmentGrade A or B48×40Depends on whether the pallet comes back

Questions

Pallets in Dover.

Can you deliver pallets to Dover?

Served on scheduled contract carriers rather than our own trailers. Economic for full trailer loads and program volume; less so for small orders. Dover is about 480 road miles from our yard, about 7 hours 30 minutes.

Do you collect used pallets from Dover?

Collection at this distance only works on volume — a full trailer of sorted cores, or a program arrangement. For smaller quantities a regional recycler is the right call. See sell your pallets.

What do pallets cost in Dover?

Recycled 48×40 GMA has run roughly $7.50 to $12.00 for Grade A and $5.00 to $8.50 for Grade B in our home market, before freight. Delivered pricing to Dover depends on the distance above and the order size, which is why we quote delivered rather than FOB.

What is the local industry mix?

Defence logistics, Food processing, State government. That mix is what decides the specification — see the table above, and industries for the full detail on each sector.

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