Explore an on-site crew
Daily platform throughput and site location. We will model the business case.
Inside your four walls, every shift.
- Sorts inbound platforms by footprint and grade at the point of receipt
- Repairs on site — bench, nailer, board stock, all of it ours
- Stages graded platforms where production actually needs them
- Pulls broken units out of circulation before they reach a line
- Runs live inventory counts, so nobody guesses on a Monday
- Loads outbound surplus for recovery on our own trailers
- Reclaims the dock space the pallet pile was quietly occupying
Three costs you stop paying.
Transport. Platforms stop commuting to be sorted. For a site moving a thousand a day this is the biggest single line.
Your own labour. Production staff stop spending twenty minutes a shift digging for a usable pallet, which is invisible on any report and enormous in aggregate.
Damage. Broken platforms are pulled before they reach a line, rather than after they drop a load.
Four weeks from conversation to crew.
Dock audit
Two of our people spend a day watching your platform flow. We count, photograph and time it. No charge, no commitment.
Business case
Throughput, space reclaimed, labour recovered, freight avoided — modelled against the cost of the crew. If it does not pay, we tell you.
Set-up
Bench, tooling, board stock and safety induction. We work to your site rules, your PPE standard and your shift pattern.
Running
Daily counts, weekly summary, monthly review. One invoice covering crew, repair, supply and recovery.
On-site crews, answered.
What throughput makes this worth it?
Roughly a thousand platform movements a day is where the arithmetic usually turns. Below that, scheduled recovery and supply is almost always the better answer, and we will say so.
Whose employees are they?
Ours. On our payroll, our insurance, our training, our safety record. You are buying an outcome, not labour hours.
How much space does a crew need?
A bench footprint plus staging — commonly 800 to 1,500 square feet. In almost every case it is less space than the unmanaged pallet pile was using.
Can they handle pooled platforms too?
They can sort and stage them and flag damage, but repair of a licensed pooled pallet is the pool operator's right, not ours. We will not overstamp someone else's asset.
What happens during our shutdown weeks?
The crew stands down or redeploys to the yard, and we do not invoice for a crew that is not working. It is written into the agreement.
What an embedded crew works to.
The same grading matrix, lead times and documentation as the yard — just performed inside your building.
| Criterion | Grade A / #1 | Grade B / #2 | Combo | Core / as-is |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plugs permitted | No | Yes | In the B portion | N/A — unsorted |
| Companion boards | No | Yes | In the B portion | N/A |
| Stringer repair | No | Yes, plug or plate | In the B portion | N/A |
| Missing boards | None | None | None | Possible |
| Weathering | Light | Visible | Mixed | As received |
| Dimensional tolerance | ±⅜ in | ±½ in | ±½ in | Unchecked |
| Protruding fasteners | None | None | None | Possible |
| Rated load | Full | Full | Full | Unknown |
| Indicative price index | 100 | 62–70 | 75–85 | 30–45 |
| Re-stamped with passport | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Price index is relative, with A-grade set at 100, and moves with the market. Note that rated load is full on A, B and Combo alike — grade is a cosmetic and repair-history statement, not a strength one. Grades explained in full.
| Tier | Stock release | Repaired stock | New build | Heat treated | Surplus pickup |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core | 24–48 hours | 3–5 business days | 7–12 business days | Same day on held stock | 48 hours, full trailer |
| Regular | 3–5 business days | 5–8 business days | 10–15 business days | 48 hours | Next scheduled run |
| On demand | Next paired run | 8–12 business days | 12–18 business days | 72 hours | Full trailers, scheduled |
Working days from a confirmed order against an agreed specification. Standing-release customers run shorter than these because we hold buffer stock sorted to their spec.
| Document | When | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Certified weigh ticket | Every inbound and outbound movement | The evidentiary basis of any diversion claim |
| Count sheet by grade | Every purchase of your surplus | You get the sheet, not a summary |
| ISPM-15 batch record | Any heat-treated consignment | Turns a port query into an email |
| Pallet Passport record | Any remanufactured platform | Origin, repair history, treatment batch, running ledger |
| Quarterly diversion report | Programme customers | Measured tonnage for ESG reporting, not an industry average |
| Feedstock segregation attestation | Mulch and bedding buyers | Written statement of what the wood was |
| Certificate of insurance | On request | Named-insured endorsements for on-site crews |
| Grading criteria statement | On request | The written standard our graders work to |
Ask for any of these before an audit rather than during one. Assembling the pack takes us an afternoon and converts verbal questions into documents.