Used pallets in Landover, MD

Eight O’Clock Coffee has a production plant in Landover. A plant that roasts and packs ships bagged and boxed goods in volume, and the pallets that carry them out are usually of one size and a consistent grade. Whether a particular load is for sale depends on the specification, which is why we ask for it.

Giant Food’s headquarters is in Landover, next to the New Carrollton Metro station. A headquarters is not a dock, but the grocery freight that serves the stores is part of the same network.

The Capital Beltway crosses U.S. 50 here. That junction is why Landover is an easy truck stop for the county: from it, a driver reaches I-95, the District line and the Maryland suburbs without cutting through neighborhoods. The area also has transit bus maintenance, which is a fleet operation and not a freight dock, and it generates parts pallets rather than cartons.

Say whether the pallets are from receiving or from shipping. Receiving pallets come off many vendors and are mixed; shipping pallets come from one process and are uniform. A plant that ships on one pallet size is the easiest sale. Parts pallets from a fleet operation are usually odd sizes, sometimes a few of each, and we say plainly when that is a mixed load to sort.

Landover’s advantage is the junction. A truck coming off the Beltway at U.S. 50 can be at a Landover dock in minutes, load, and be back on the road toward the District or I-95 without crossing town. That makes it an easy place to reach in the county, so even a modest Landover pile is worth describing.

The disadvantage is that industrial parks fill with deliveries at the same hours. Say what the quiet window is, how high the dock is and whether the lot allows a full-length truck.

Capitol Heights sits to the south toward the District line, Beltsville to the north on U.S. 1, and the county page covers the rest of Prince George’s. A Landover load often sits on the same trip as one from either neighbor.

A fleet-maintenance shop receives parts on pallets sized to the parts: tall for bus panels, long for axles, square for batteries. These pallets seldom match a standard, so they are best described as a separate group, since they suit only a dock that builds on the same size.

Landover sits inside a county served by the Capital Beltway, I-95, the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, U.S. 50 and U.S. 301, with CSX and Norfolk Southern rail and a countywide Foreign Trade Zone. A trailer leaving a Landover dock can reach the District or Virginia without crossing surface streets for long, which is why the area suits steady, scheduled pallet flows.

• The street address and which side of the building has the dock.
• Whether the building shares a lot with other tenants.
• The hours the receiving office is staffed.
• Whether pallets are stacked outside, under a roof or inside.

Industrial buildings around Landover often hold several tenants behind one gate. A pallet pile can belong to any of them, so a clear suite number and a named contact matter more here than at a single-tenant plant. Say which tenant owns the pile and whether the landlord controls the dock hours.

Grocery freight in this part of the county follows store delivery days, and parts and equipment deliveries follow the work week. Piles tend to build on certain days and be cleared before weekends. A rough picture of when yours grows, and when the dock is quietest, helps choose a pickup day.

Give a cross street, a landmark and the entrance to use. Navigation apps are sometimes wrong for rear docks in industrial parks, so a clear note on the entrance saves a wrong turn.

Give the ZIP, the size, a rough count and how the load leaves. A reply may name it as a sale, a buy-back or a clear-out. See sell and buy.

20785 20784

Which ZIP codes are Landover?

20785 and 20784.

Do you buy pallets from food plants?

When the grade and the size suit. A food plant should say how clean its pallets are and how they were stored.

Is a coffee plant a good source of pallets?

It can be: one process, one outbound size and a consistent grade. The specification matters, so we ask for it.

Where is Giant Food’s headquarters?

In Landover, next to the New Carrollton Metro station.

What about transit bus maintenance?

It produces parts pallets in odd sizes, and odd sizes suit only the docks that use them.