Pallets are portable, rigid wood or plastic platforms that are used to consolidate shipments and make freight easier to transport. Palletizing cargo ensures that multi-piece shipments remain together throughout their journey, which helps protect your cargo, makes loading and unloading easier and faster, and enables carriers to maximize space inside the trailer
Whether you should ship your cargo on a pallet depends on the number and nature of the items being shipped, as well as their total weight and size. Shipments of several smaller items, such as 15 or more boxes, are ideal for pallet shipping—palletizing such shipments is often more cost effective than shipping them separately, especially if the cargo is large or heavy.
Palletizing is also ideal for single items that are large, heavy, or fragile, such as furniture, equipment, or artwork.