Pallet pickup and removal
Book a pallet pickup like you'd book a ride.
Size the pile, see whether it's likely a free pickup, a paid haul-away, or a load someone will pay for, and pick your windows. You get a pickup ticket, not a contact form.
Wood and plastic pallets, skids and crates. Businesses and homes.
Count stacks, not pallets. The estimate becomes your ticket's count.
How pickup works
- 1Size the pileCount stacks and their height. The sizer turns that into a pallet count, the truck it needs, and whether a forklift helps.
- 2Triage itCondition, size, count and debris decide whether it's likely free, paid, or worth money. You see every reason.
- 3Pick windowsChoose up to three morning or afternoon windows and tell the driver about your dock, forklift and gate.
- 4Get a ticketA shareable ticket page for whoever's on site. Repackify reviews it and confirms a window.
Three ways a pallet pile can go
Junk haulers charge for every pile. Pallet recyclers collect good pallets free, and buyers pay for big loads. The triage tells you which case you're in before anyone mentions money.
Likely free pickup
Standard 48x40s, good condition, enough to be worth a trip, nothing else mixed in. A recycler can resell them, so the pickup pays for itself.
A buyer may pay
Truckload-scale piles of good 48x40s. Choose "I'd like to be paid for these" and Repackify looks for a buyer.
Paid haul-away
Broken pallets, odd sizes, small piles, or pallets mixed with debris. Still recycled where a recycler accepts them, but the trip is charged.
What a pile looks like, by size
Blue and red pallets aren't yours to throw away
Blue CHEP and red PECO pallets, and any pallet stamped as someone's property, are rented from a pallet pool. They go back to their owner, so we leave them out of every load. Set them aside before a pickup.
Pallets every week?
Stores, restaurants, contractors and plants can set a standing pickup: weekly, every two weeks or monthly. Batching small piles into regular loads is often what makes them free.
Straight answers
- Who picks up pallets for free?
Pallet recyclers often collect good 48x40 pallets at no charge. Here is what makes a pile free, who to ask, and when free pickup isn't realistic.
- How much does pallet removal cost?
Pallet removal ranges from free to a junk-hauler minimum. What drives the price: count, condition, access, distance and debris, and how to lower it.
- How many pallets fit in a pickup, box truck or trailer?
Empty 48x40 pallets per vehicle: about 10-20 in a pickup, 60-100 in a 16 ft box truck, 150-220 in a 26 ft box truck and 400-600 on a 53 ft trailer.
- Which pallets shouldn't I throw away? Pooled pallets explained
Blue CHEP, red PECO and other marked pallets are rented, not owned. Why they can't be hauled away or sold, and how to get them back to their owner.