Pallets in Southfield
Southfield has 27 million square feet of office space and the offices of more than 100 Fortune 500 companies, including Lear, Denso and Federal-Mogul.
What is here
- Office space
- 27 million square feet
- Fortune 500
- Offices of more than 100
- Supplier HQs
- Lear, Denso, Federal-Mogul
- ZIPs
- 48033, 48034, 48037, 48075, 48076, 48086
Southfield is a city of towers, and towers receive freight in a way factories do not: a loading dock for deliveries, a few pallets a day, and a building manager who wants the pile gone. The pallets that matter here are small in number and scattered in place.
Who has pallets to move
- Building managers with a receiving dock shared by many tenants.
- Corporate offices clearing equipment, furniture and event materials.
- Small businesses in the industrial strips at the edge of the city.
Realistic requests
A single call for a pickup is the common one: ten to fifty pallets, one size, in decent condition. That is a modest job but a simple one, and it is easy to combine with a larger stop nearby. Say the building, the dock hours and who to ask for. Pickup lists what is useful to include.
Questions from tower and office docks
Our building shares a loading dock. Who authorizes pickup?
The property manager. Give the name and number in the request.
We have a dozen pallets. Is that too few?
A dozen is small but acceptable if the pickup can be combined with another stop nearby.
Are pallets from furniture deliveries any good?
Often yes. Furniture pallets tend to be clean and flat, though sizes vary.
Industrial pockets
Beyond the towers, Southfield has small industrial strips, and they are the better source of volume. Mention the street and the type of business.
Offices that ship
Not every office is only an office. An engineering firm receives test equipment, a design studio ships prototypes, and a distributor keeps a back room with a dock. These are the Southfield addresses worth listing, and they are easy to spot: a roller door at the back, a small apron, a dumpster beside it.
Because these docks are small, a driver needs to know the vehicle limit: a tractor-trailer may not fit, but a straight truck will. Say so in the request. If the building has a freight elevator, say whether the pallets are upstairs, since stairs and elevators change the time a pickup takes.
Freight elevators
In towers, pallets sometimes sit on upper floors beside freight elevators. Say the floor and the elevator's weight limit, so that a driver brings the right hand jack.
Event materials
Conferences and trade shows in the towers produce pallets of signage, booths and catering supplies. Those pallets are usually clean and quickly cleared.
Office towers and parts makers
Southfield has about 27 million square feet of office space, second in metro Detroit, and its tenants include Lear, Denso, Federal-Mogul and International Automotive Components. I-696 and M-10 meet at the Mixing Bowl, and US 24 and M-39 also cross the city.