Butted deckboard
An inner deckboard that is placed tightly against an adjacent lead deckboard during the pallet assembly process.
Bottom deck
Comprised of the lower, load bearing surface of a pallet.
Chamfered deckboard
Deckboard with one or two beveled face edges. Can be along the full or specified length of board or between the stringers. Allows for easier entry of pallet jack wheels.
Deckboard
A single component or elements of a pallet deck. Oriented perpendicular to the stringer or stringerboard.
Deckboard spacing
The distance between adjacent deckboards.
Double-wing pallet
A pallet with a top and bottom deckboard . Also refers to decks extending beyond the edges of the stringers or stringerboards.
Euro Pallet
Uses nine blocks for support rather than runners. Creates greater ease for forklift entry on all sides; typically used for European exports.
Fastener
A device for connecting pallet components such as nails, adhesives, screws, bolts, staples, lag bolts, and welds.
Flush pallet
A pallet with deckboards flush with the stringers, stringerboards or blocks along the ends and sides of a pallet.
Fork entry
The opening between decks. Found beneath both the top and ground decks to admit the forks of a lifting device.
Four-way pallet
A pallet with openings on all four sides.
Grocery pallet
A generic reference to pallets used in grocery manufacturing, distribution, and retailing. Generally, the same as a GMA pallet.
Hardwood
Wood from tree species with broad-leaved (not necessarily hard in texture/dense). Oak, maple, hickory, beech, and cherry are good examples.
Multiple-use pallet
A pallet designed for repeat use. Has a minimum average “life-to-first repair” span of ten trips or more.
Single Faced Pallet
Also Known As a Skid
Notched stringer
A stringer with two or more notches spaced for forklift entry.
Opening height
The vertical dimension measured between decks.
Pallet
A portable, rigid, composite platform, built horizontally. Used for a base in assembling, storing, stacking, handling, and transporting goods.
Pallet Design System (PDS)
A CAD program used to efficiently determine the reliability and engineering specifications of a wood pallet. Factoring in safe load carrying capacity performance as well as the economic life of the pallet.
Recycled pallet
A used pallet that has been salvaged, repaired, and rebuilt in order to pass through another cycle of use.
Rental Pallet
A pallet that a user rents from a pallet owner for a price.
Skid
A pallet without a bottom deckboard or deck.
Softwood
Wood from coniferous or needle bearing trees.
Stringer
A continuous, longitudinal, solid, or notched beam. A component of a pallet used to support and space the deckboards.
Stringer Pallet
A frame of three or more parallel pieces of timber (called stringers) that are affixed to the top deck to create a pallet structure. Stringer pallets can also have a notch cut into them allowing for four-way entry.
Two-way entry pallet
A pallet with unnotched stringers allowing for entry from only the two opposite pallet ends.
Wing
The overhang of a deckboard from the outside edge of the stringer or stringerboard.
