About Detroit Pallet Yard

Metro Detroit builds vehicles, and almost every part that goes into one arrives on a pallet from a supplier dock somewhere between Monroe and Port Huron. That freight does not ride on one size. A stamping shop sees 48 x 45 automotive skids next to 48 x 40 GMA stock, a cross-dock collects a mixed load every week, and a food wholesaler needs clean Grade A. Detroit Pallet Yard is for that mix.

• Buying graded used, combo, new and heat-treated pallets in the sizes a Detroit dock actually uses.
• Selling sound surplus, and selling or clearing cores.
• Clearing mixed and broken piles from docks, plants and back lots.
• Explaining sizes, grades and heat treatment in shop-floor language.

It is for businesses that move pallets every week. It is not for liquidation-pallet shoppers, for crafters after one free pallet, for plastic pallet pools, or for racking. Those searches have good answers elsewhere.

Pick a lane on the home page or send a request. If you are not sure whether your pile is worth selling, try the sorter. If your question is about a size or a grade, the guides are the quickest route.

Four footprints cover most of the freight here: the 48 x 40 for general freight, the 48 x 45 for automotive parts, the 48 x 48 and 48 x 42 for chemical drums, and the 42 x 42 for beverage cases. Each has a page with dimensions and uses, and the 48x45 or 48x40 guide covers the pair a supplier dock most often mixes.

The six counties draw freight from several directions. Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus and Willow Run Airport near Ypsilanti handle air cargo, the Ambassador Bridge and the Gordie Howe International Bridge join Southwest Detroit to Windsor, the Port of Monroe is Michigan's only Lake Erie seaport. Rail from Canadian National, CSX and Norfolk Southern threads through Wyandotte, Monroe, Troy and Pontiac.

Loads bound for Ontario or overseas raise the question of the ISPM 15 stamp. The stamp guide shows where the mark sits and how to read it, and pallets to Canada covers the border rule with its source.

Detroit is a metro where two pallet sizes live side by side, where the supplier base is among the densest in the country, and where cross-border freight adds its own rules. Anyone serving it has to know all three.

Corrections, questions and requests all go through the request page.