PalletTrader

PalletTrader CEO optimistic on market recovery

Pallets are essential to the transportation industry. Because of the ubiquitous presence of pallets in shipping, the state of the pallet industry can provide insight into the health of the supply chain.

John Vaccaro, founder and CEO of PalletTrader, the world’s first online pallet marketplace, believes the supply chain is in the final stages of recovery.

“I think we all realized that there was a contraction overall in the supply chain a few months ago. Transportation, the way I review it right...

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Pallets finally get their due with online marketplace for buyers, sellers

Tractor trailer loaded with pallets

For all the underappreciated parts of the supply chain, no item could be more accurately called its Rodney Dangerfield than the ubiquitous wooden pallet. 

Often tossed aside, left outside or simply burned, the pallet serves only one purpose. Yet without it, global commerce might come to a screeching halt.

Talk about getting no respect.

The history of the pallet goes back almost 100 years or perhaps even more as some online searches indicate it may date to the 1880s. Regardless of when the pallet...

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