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pallet terminology

Block Pallet
A type of pallet with blocks between the pallet decks or beneath the top deck.
Chamfered Deck Board
A deck board with the edges of 1 or 2 faces beveled, either along the full or specified length of board or between the stringers or blocks, facilitating entry of pallet-jack wheels and tines of forklift trucks.
Closed "Loop" or Closed Distribution System
A shipping system restricted to moving goods between specified plants and facilities.
Cost per Trip
Average cost of pallet or container use for a single 1 way movement of the unit load consisting of 4-6 handlings.
Drive-Screw Nail
Continuously helical threaded or fluted pallet nail.
Economic Life
The number of trips the pallet will make over its lifetime, provided it is properly repaired, which maximized the return on the investment (an output of the PDS software).
Exchange Pallet
A multiple-use pallet intended for use among a designated group of shippers and receivers where possession of the pallet is transferred with the ownership of the unit load-pool pallet.
Expendable Pallet
A pallet intended for a limited series of handlings during a single unit load movement from shipper to receiver.
Fastener
A device for connecting pallet components such as nails, staples, screws, bolts, lag bolts, adhesives, and welds.
Fastener Shear Index
Measure of the estimated shear resistance of the pallet fastener relative to the shear resistance of a high-quality "baseline" pallet nail.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
 

 

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