Tool 02 · interactive
Five questions, and we will tell you what to buy.
Order the specification it gave you
Put the grade and footprint from the result into the form and we will price it.
- 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
Segregation
Sorted by type, not by convenience. Pooled units go back to the pool; plastic runs a separate stream entirely.
Question 1
Does the pallet come back to you?
This single answer decides more than anything else on the page. A pallet that returns is an asset; one that leaves is a consumable.
The logic in this tool is the same logic our sales desk uses, and it is deliberately visible: every recommendation comes with the reason attached, so you can disagree with the reason rather than the conclusion.
It will also, in two cases, tell you to buy something we would rather not sell you — plastic for wash-down zones, and new stock for automated handling. Those are the right answers and pretending otherwise would make the rest of the tool worthless.
What it cannot know
If two answers apply
Questions
Trusting the recommendation.
What are the five questions?
Does the pallet come back to you, does it go into racking, what is the product, does it cross an international border, and roughly how many a month. Each one is shown with the reason it is being asked, so you can see which of your answers is driving the result.
Which answer changes the recommendation most?
Racking overrides everything. Racked capacity is about a third of static capacity and the stringer is the member that fails in bending at mid-span, so anything that racks gets Grade A, which excludes repaired stringers. After that it is the return question: an asset is bought on cost per cycle, a consumable on price.
Are the price bands it quotes real numbers?
They are indicative central-Ohio bands, and they are the ones our sales desk works from: roughly $5.00 to $8.50 for Grade B, $7.50 to $12.00 for Grade A, $17 to $22 for new stock built to a fixed specification. Export heat treatment adds about $1.10 to $2.20 a unit. Freight is quoted separately.
Will it ever tell me to buy something you would rather not sell?
In two cases, yes: plastic for wash-down zones, and new stock built to a fixed specification for automated handling. Recycled wood cannot hold millimetre tolerances and a jam costs more than a year of the price difference. Pretending otherwise would make the rest of the tool worthless.
What can the tool not know about my operation?
Your racking configuration, your receiver’s written specification and your own hazard analysis. All three override anything five questions can tell you, and where two answers both apply, take the stricter one: over-specifying costs a few dollars, under-specifying in a rack costs a dropped load.