Pallets for Jacksonville, Florida: Duval, Clay, St. Johns and Nassau counties
Pallets for Jacksonville freight, picked for where it goes next
Where is this freight headed? Pick the lane: the line below names the pallet that load needs, and the request form fills in to match.
A box leaving through Blount Island or Dames Point needs wood with the ISPM 15 mark: heat treated, 48x40 or Euro, with fork entry on the sides the dock uses.
Pallets picked for where your freight goes next
Jacksonville ships three ways at once. Containers leave Blount Island and Dames Point for overseas ports. Grocery and frozen-food freight runs into cold docks on the Westside. Fulfillment buildings send mixed loads out by truck across the Southeast. Each lane wants a different pallet, so the board below starts from the destination.
Into a container
Heat-treated wood with the ISPM 15 mark, usually 48x40 or the Euro pallet, four-way where the dock forks from the side. The container floor decides the size: a 40 ft box takes about 20 of the 48x40.
Heat-treated palletsInto a grocery or cold room
Clean, dry 48x40 stringers, Grade A or a sound Grade B, with the deck coverage the cartons and bags need. Moisture is the test: under 20% will not grow mould.
Grocery and frozen foodAcross the Southeast by truck
Sorted 48x40s at a fair grade. No stamp is needed for domestic freight, so the money goes into sound boards, not paperwork. A skid with a plug on one deck board loads fine.
Used pallets by gradeRead the stamp
Most destinations require every wood pallet in an export container out of JAXPORT to meet ISPM 15: debarked, heat treated to a core temperature of at least 56 °C for 30 minutes (or fumigated) and marked. The mark is five small parts. Tap each one.
Florida wood and water
A humid port city punishes wet lumber. Wood with a moisture content below 20% will not support mould, and even a slight air movement of a few feet per second helps stored pallets stay under that line. Heat treatment does not make wood immune: a heat-treated pallet loaded into a trailer while still hot can grow mould too.
Pallet mould in Florida covers storage, summer rain and what a cold dock rejects.
Sizes at scale
The 48x40 is the GMA standard and the most common wood pallet in North America. The 48x45 is the automotive size, the 42x42 shows up in beverage, the 48x48 in chemicals, and the 800x1200 mm Euro pallet arrives on imported freight. Drawn here on one grid so the differences are visible.
- 48x40: the default for grocery and truck freight
- 48x45 and 48x42: auto parts, chemical and beverage lanes
- 800x1200 mm: the Euro pallet, 11 fit a 20 ft box
Grade it in a sentence
- Grade A: has not had repairs and needs none.
- Grade B: repaired with replaced deck boards, plates or plugs; sound for most domestic loads.
- Grade C: poor appearance, usually several repairs, deck boards may not be fully intact.
- Combo: remanufactured from a mix of recycled and new lumber.
- New: all-new lumber, built to a spec sheet.
- Core: a used skid that goes to a recycler before it is sorted.
Pallet grades shows each one with its repair marks drawn in.
Sell or clear a stack
Docks collect pallets for weeks before anyone sorts them. A mixed stack splits three ways: reusable grades, cores that go for repair or dismantling, and wood past repair that is ground. Count it by size and by what is stacked, and say whether any of it is blue or red: pooled pallets belong to the pool and cannot be sold as surplus.
Selling pallets and clearing a dock start from the same count, with pooled pallets set apart.
Up and down the river
The St. Johns runs north through the middle of the market. Containers and autos move at Blount Island and Dames Point on the Northside. Talleyrand sits on the Eastside. Grocery and frozen distribution anchors West Beaver Street on the Westside, and fulfillment buildings fill Cecil Commerce Center. Clay and St. Johns counties lie south of the city and Nassau to the north.
Send the request
One request covers buying, selling and clearing. Say what the load is, how many, and where it is headed. The form is at the top of this screen.