A behind-the-scenes look at our facility operations and how we process thousands of pallets every week without sending a single one to landfill.
Most people don't think twice about the wooden pallet sitting under their latest Amazon delivery. But at Oakland Pallets, pallets are all we think about — and processing 10,000 of them per week requires a well-oiled operation.
Our G Street facility operates on a simple flow: pallets arrive by the truckload, get sorted into condition categories, and then move through our repair shop, grading station, or dismantling area depending on their condition. The entire process — from arrival to resale or recycling — takes 48 to 72 hours.
The key to our throughput is specialization. Our sorting team can grade a pallet in under 10 seconds. Our repair crew can replace a broken board in 90 seconds flat. And our dismantling station can break down a beyond-repair pallet and separate the wood from the nails in under a minute.
The result? Zero pallets go to landfill. Every piece of wood either goes back into circulation as a repaired pallet, gets salvaged for board stock, or becomes mulch and biomass fuel. The metal gets recycled. It's a truly closed loop, running 10,000 times per week.