Stringers, deckboards, chamfers and lead boards — the vocabulary that makes ordering precise and grading honest.
A pallet looks simple from across a warehouse, but get close and it becomes a small piece of engineering with a vocabulary all its own. Knowing the parts is the difference between ordering 'some pallets' and ordering exactly the unit-load platform your operation needs.
The deckboards are the flat boards you stack product onto. The top deck carries the load; the bottom deck spreads weight and adds rigidity. The outermost top boards — the lead boards — take the most abuse from forks and are the first place to inspect for cracks.
Stringers (in a stringer pallet) or blocks (in a block pallet) are the load-bearing members between the decks. Block pallets allow true four-way forklift and pallet-jack entry, which is why they dominate automated and grocery environments.
Chamfered bottom boards — those angled edges — aren't decoration. They guide pallet-jack wheels in smoothly and reduce hang-ups. Small detail, big difference on a busy dock.
When you can name the parts, you can describe a repair, specify a build, and grade a load with zero ambiguity. That's why our team speaks this language fluently — and why we wrote it down for you.
Reuse beats replace almost every time — for your budget and the planet. When in doubt, ask us to spec it.