Pallets for sale in Jacksonville
Pallets for sale in Jacksonville come in five kinds: used by grade, heat treated for export, new and custom, plastic and bulk by the truckload. Choose by where the freight goes next, then by size and grade.
Start from the destination
A load that leaves in a container out of JAXPORT needs, for most destinations, heat-treated wood with the ISPM 15 mark. A load that goes into a cold or grocery dock needs clean, dry stringers, and a Grade A or sound Grade B skid does that job. A load on a truck inside the US needs sound, sorted used pallets and nothing more.
| Kind | Best for | Read first |
|---|---|---|
| Used pallets | Truck freight, cold docks that accept Grade B | Grade A or Grade B |
| Heat treated | Containers out of Blount Island and Dames Point | The ISPM 15 stamp |
| New and custom | Spec-sheet builds, odd dimensions, steady plant demand | Sizes |
| Plastic | Cold, wet and washed docks | Mould in Florida |
| Bulk loads | Repeat truckloads of one size and grade | Grades |
What to send with a buy request
- Size, and the pallet type if it matters: stringer or block, two-way or four-way.
- Grade, from Grade A to Grade C, or combo or new.
- Heat treatment: yes if any pallet goes overseas or into a container bound for another country.
- Count and rhythm: a single load, or a number each week.
- The ZIP or town where the pallets are wanted.
The 48x40 is the GMA size, the most common wood pallet in North America and about 30% of all new wood pallets produced in the United States. A forwarder stuffing two 40 ft containers a week with cartons on 48x40s needs 40 heat-treated pallets a week; a Westside grocery dock receiving four trailers a day needs a different number, with Grade A for the cold room and Grade B for the dry side. Two requests, two sets of words, one form.
Common mistakes when ordering
- Ordering by "48 by 40" and getting a 48x45 because the stringers were turned the other way.
- Assuming used means heat treated. It does not; the mark is separate from the grade.
- Leaving out the cold room. Dry stock matters most where air is humid and cartons are damp.
- Counting pooled pallets in the quantity. They belong to the pool and are not stock.
- Forgetting the receiving country, which sometimes adds its own rule on top of ISPM 15.
New and custom builds
New pallets are built from all-new lumber to a spec sheet. A plant that ships the same product every week wants every pallet the same, and a used stack varies from one skid to the next: Clay County manufacturers on the St. Johns, Nassau County plants with rail access, and beverage or chemical lines on the 42x42 or 48x48 all fall into that group. Custom dimensions are a normal request; send the product footprint and the container or racking it must fit.
| Item | What to write down |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | Length by width in inches or millimetres, and which side the stringers run along |
| Type | Stringer or block, two-way or four-way entry |
| Deck | Number of top and bottom boards, board width, and spacing |
| Fasteners | Nail type and count, ring-shank or smooth |
| Lumber | Kiln dried or green (green shrinks and loosens nails as it dries), hardwood or softwood |
| Treatment | ISPM 15 heat treatment if the pallet ships overseas |
| Load | Weight per pallet, static and dynamic |
A plant ordering a new design usually asks for a few samples first: one on the racking, one on the conveyor and one in a trailer with the real product on it, then locks the spec and orders the run. A combo pallet of recycled and new lumber gives a stronger skid than used at a lower cost than all-new (Millwood), and either can be stamped for export when built from heat-treated wood.
Plastic pallets
A cold room is wet: condensation beads on deck boards, and Florida summers push humidity through every dock door. Plastic does not hold water or grow mould the way wood above about 20% moisture content can, which makes it an answer for Westside frozen-food and grocery docks that keep rejecting stock for staining, and for wash-down areas. It is exempt from ISPM 15 because it is not wood.
Wood still wins on one-way truck freight, on export where cheap wood with the mark does the job, and at docks that repair rather than replace. The test is trips: a wood pallet used once costs less per trip than plastic, one that circulates twenty times between two docks may favour plastic, and if pallets are lost or kept by the receiver the numbers swing back to wood. Injection-moulded, thermoformed and rotationally moulded builds differ in weight, nesting and rack strength, and insurers and sprinkler designs treat plastic differently, so ask before switching a whole dock. The form offers wood today; mention plastic in the message.
Bulk loads by the truckload
A repeat truckload is bought on a spec: size and type, grade and what is tolerated, treatment, count per delivery and rhythm, and the delivery point with its hours and who unloads. About 6.8 million square feet of industrial space was under construction in the region in Q3 2025 (JAXUSA), and buildings that size consume pallets on a schedule, so a written spec keeps a grade from drifting.
Grades drift: a supplier who sends a good first load may slide by the fifth, and a monthly sample pulled from the middle of a stack catches it. Count a trailer by stacks and multiply, and spread the order over several deliveries if the dock has no dry place to land a full trailer, since wood stacked outdoors over a Jacksonville summer picks up moisture before it is used.
Questions
What is the difference between a pallet and a skid?
On a dock the words are used for the same thing. Buyers search both.
What sets the price of a pallet?
Size, grade, treatment and count, so a request names those first.
Can a new or bulk order be heat treated?
Yes. Write ISPM 15 treatment into the spec if the pallets leave the country.
Is plastic heat treated?
Plastic is not wood, so the wood-packaging rule does not apply to it. Check the receiving country if in doubt.
Keep reading
Sources, reviewed 12 November 2026: Pallet (Wikipedia); Recycled pallets (Millwood); JAXUSA logistics.