the desk's signature tool
Pile reader
Tell the desk what you have: how many, what size, sorted or mixed, any blue or red paint, and how the load leaves. It says whether the pile looks like a sale, a buy-back, a clear-out or a pooler return, then opens the request with your answers in it.
Nothing here is a price or a promise. The reader does not assume turnaround or stacking limits.
Answer the six questions and press Read it. The call and the reasons show here.
How it decides
The reader is a short set of rules, the same ones a person at the desk uses. It is not a quote, and it does not look anything up. It reads your answers in this order.
- Mostly blue or redA pooler return. Pooled pallets belong to the pooling company. Call them first.
- Sorted 48x40, and a flow or a real countA sale. This is the pallet docks look for.
- A flow of mixed or odd palletsA buy-back. The mixed load goes out and graded 48x40 comes back.
- Everything elseA clear-out. A small pile, or a one-time mixed one, is a job to get done, not a sale.
What counts as a small load
Under 100 pallets is small in the reader’s rule of thumb. It is not a minimum and not a quote; a small pile can still be worth a truck if it joins others on a route, and a larger one can be a clear-out if it is mixed and rotten.
What it does with your answers
The call and a one-line summary go into the request as a message, along with a request type and a grade guess, so you do not retype them. You can change any of it before you send. Nothing is sent until you press the button on the form.
Questions
- Is the Pile reader a price?
- No. It names what the pile looks like. Prices come after we have a count, a size and a grade.
- What if I do not know the grade?
- Say whether the pallets look repaired. See pallet grades for what the repairs mean.