Used pallets in Prince George's County, MD

Trade, transportation and utilities employed 59,209 people in the county in 2024, 18.0% of all jobs. Manufacturing added 6,659 jobs across 349 establishments. Those are the docks that generate pallets: receiving docks for food and retail, and plants that ship what they make.

Two grocery names show up among the county’s major employers for 2023 and 2024: Giant Food, with 2,197 employees, and the Shoppers supermarkets, with 1,484. Supermarket supply chains run on 48x40 pallets, and the stores and warehouses that serve them cycle through stringer pallets quickly.

The county is served by I-95/I-495, U.S. 1, U.S. 50, U.S. 301, the Baltimore-Washington Parkway (MD 295) and the Intercounty Connector (MD 200), with both CSX and Norfolk Southern rail and a Foreign Trade Zone that covers the whole county. A truck leaving a Prince George’s dock reaches the District line in a short run on any of several roads.

That matters for pickups. A load too small to justify a long haul from Frederick is routine here, and a weekly flow is a different kind of request from a one-off, and a short distance makes either easier to describe.

Tell us which town the dock is in; Landover, Beltsville and Capitol Heights have their own pages. For a grocery or food dock, say how clean the pallets are and whether they come back from stores. For a plant, say whether pallets are specified to a size. A steady supermarket flow is a candidate for a dock program.

A county this big is better described by road than by address: U.S. 1, MD 214 and the Beltway each pass many docks. A supermarket with a back-room pile is one of many on its road, which is why short loads are easier to describe here than they would be from Frederick.

The conversation starts with three facts: the pallets per week, the days the store can be reached and the way the load leaves, whether through a dock door, a rear lot or a curb. Landover, Capitol Heights, Beltsville and Hyattsville each have a page with the detail that applies there.

• Store groups. Give the number of stores and the weekly total, and ask whether one pickup could cover several.
• Plants. Say whether the outbound pallet is specified, and to what.
• Federal sites. Say whether the pallets are free to release before anything else.

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.

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Do you serve all of Prince George’s County?

Yes. Send a count from any ZIP in the county. Landover, Capitol Heights, Beltsville and Hyattsville have their own pages.

What kind of pallets come from the county?

Mostly 48x40 stringer pallets from grocery and distribution docks, plus whatever the county’s plants specify.

Which highways and rail lines serve the county?

I-95/I-495, U.S. 1, U.S. 50, U.S. 301, the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and the Intercounty Connector, with CSX and Norfolk Southern rail.

What is the Foreign Trade Zone?

A countywide designation under which imported goods can be handled under customs rules. It matters to us because import freight often rides on stamped or euro pallets.

Do supermarkets in the county sell their empties?

Some do. A chain that sorts back-room empties by size can sell a steady 48x40 stream; one that stacks everything together has a mixed load to sort first.