Wooden pallets
Discussion
Pallets wanted signs really meant GKN blue pallets wanted but they couldn't say that out loud because all GKN blues are owned by GKN & rented out to users. Years ago, pallet circulation was managed by use of PCV & PEN notes - paperwork.
You delivered a load on pallets & either received the same number of empty pallets in exchange or a PCV, pallet control voucher. Over time, drivers lose them & you ended up in a situation where you owed GKN for missing pallets which of course weren't really missing at all, just unaccounted for. Therefore, a black market existed in trading blues in order to avoid whopping bills from GKN.
Now, the system is digital & called managed exchange. You send a load out to a customer & your account is debited & the customer credited accordingly, hence no trade in blues. Pity really, when I started trading, dodgy blues kept the wolf from the door for a couple of years. They were the good old days.
You delivered a load on pallets & either received the same number of empty pallets in exchange or a PCV, pallet control voucher. Over time, drivers lose them & you ended up in a situation where you owed GKN for missing pallets which of course weren't really missing at all, just unaccounted for. Therefore, a black market existed in trading blues in order to avoid whopping bills from GKN.
Now, the system is digital & called managed exchange. You send a load out to a customer & your account is debited & the customer credited accordingly, hence no trade in blues. Pity really, when I started trading, dodgy blues kept the wolf from the door for a couple of years. They were the good old days.
You defo can sell pallets, but it needs to be quantity. 1 or 3 or whatever is pointless. Most small pallet traders will want a min of 100. Some of the man and van type guys will take small quantity - but usually they are just clearing it out so its FOC.
I used to buy and sell thousands a year, both for our goods to go out the door on and also as we used to get mixed loads of used pallets in which were no good to us but they were usually at a low price so we picked the best and sold the rest.
I used to buy and sell thousands a year, both for our goods to go out the door on and also as we used to get mixed loads of used pallets in which were no good to us but they were usually at a low price so we picked the best and sold the rest.
We get a number of pallets, we really used to struggle to get rid of them.
Some staff take them for kindling for log burners, but we also have a couple of people local who take them, one of the main people that take them are the local Scout groups for bonfires etc. but that is mainly just in the summer months.
We have another chap who takes van loads at at a time. I believe he or someone in his family has stables and heats them via a log burner or something.
During the lock down period a lot of people would collect them to make things for their houses/gardens.
Some staff take them for kindling for log burners, but we also have a couple of people local who take them, one of the main people that take them are the local Scout groups for bonfires etc. but that is mainly just in the summer months.
We have another chap who takes van loads at at a time. I believe he or someone in his family has stables and heats them via a log burner or something.
During the lock down period a lot of people would collect them to make things for their houses/gardens.
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