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Six running threads
The articles group into six subjects. Pick the one that matches the problem you are actually trying to solve.
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Yard notes
What actually happens between the inbound gate and the outbound stack.
7 articles
Specs & engineering
Dimensions, load paths, fasteners and the physics of a wooden platform.
11 articles
Buying & cost
Where pallet money leaks, and the levers that move more than unit price.
6 articles
Compliance
ISPM-15, export holds, fire code and the paperwork that stops a container.
4 articles
Sustainability
Reuse, carbon, diversion — with the arithmetic shown.
4 articles
Ohio & industry
The Columbus corridor, the wider market and what moves prices here.
4 articles
How the threads fit together
Six subjects, one argument
The categories are not really separate. They are six views of the same claim: that a pallet is an engineered object with a measurable life, and that treating it as a consumable is what makes it expensive.
Specs & engineering is the physical layer — where load goes, why notches fail, what fasteners actually do. Almost every cost problem in the other categories traces back to something here.
Buying & cost takes those physical facts and turns them into money. Grade splits, two-way lanes, audits. The recurring finding is that the largest savings are structural rather than commercial.
Yard notes is the operational reality behind both — grading under daylight, counting on the ground, deciding whether to repair or dismantle. It is where the abstractions get tested.
Compliance is the category where being wrong is most expensive per incident. ISPM-15, fire code, the timber nobody checks.
Sustainability is the same reuse argument stated in carbon rather than in dollars, with the arithmetic published so it can be checked.
Ohio & industry is the local context: why the Columbus corridor produces so many pallets, how the year runs, what the different transport modes want.
If you are new to the site and want one place to start, the pallet buying guide and the size guide cover most of what the blog then argues about in detail.