Ive got the pallets who,s got the wheels 
madguy:
That’s nothing, today I was sent to a well known pallet manufacturer to collect 660 brand new euro pallets, take them across to the other side of the country and deliver them to ■■?yes, the same pallet manufacturer who strangely make exactly the same pallets and had a few thousand in stock !!!
Figure that one out
Madguy
My best one so far was:
Take Norwegian language users manual for printers printed in Scoland and deliver them to DHL hub in Slovakia.
Next day new job turned up: to take the same users manuals from DHL Hub in Slovakia to Norway.
And on my arrival to Oslo they found that they were printed with loads of mistakes so cannot be used…
But my friend told me even better. Some users manual are delivered to new printer factory in Czech Republic from Scotland. One time they did not arrived to Scotland on time to be sent to Czech Republic, so they tried to find where are they come from. It turned that altough it’s the biggest printer company in the world, the users manuals are printed by their competition in a bit of warehouse that is sublet to them… Guess where?
Now sadly some drivers are out of work, as they now deliver them by rolling pallet truck next door instead of sending them with the trucks via Scotland 
This does go on quite often to places like offices so they can put stuff like a load of files on them to be picked up to go into storage because the collecting transport co either won’t provide pallets or refuse to wait whilst they’re loading the pallet when collecting.
We collect them all up in our place & when we have a lorry load I take them to a place 15 miles up the road who pay between 80p & £1.50 a pallet depending on size & condition, you need to have a look about tour area & places you go & see if they have boards of pallets , ask if they buy or sell pallets & see if you can do something wity them , if you’ve got the time & means to collect & store them it can be an extra few quid in your pocket , we average about 60 every few weeks …
With Palletforce we regularly used to get empty chep pallets; usually 8 or 10 wrapped together. I believe that they were shipped at a special low rate.
The pallet business is a strange animal. I have loaded from Chep in Birmingham with a full shute of blues and delivered them to Rouen France and my backload has been a full shute of blues from Rennes for the UK.
We also did the Gefco boxes and they had similar ideas
What’s the big deal with blue pallets? We’re not meant to use them but do when red ones are scarce.
Not forgetting plastic pallets, absolute pain the arse when wet and slide about on taillifts.
I did a bit for LKW Walters a few yrs ago, UK-NL, a few times i would pick up a euroliner full of empty GKN’s from Chep either in Swindon or Avely and run them out to Holland, sometimes i would load the same in NL and bring them back to Avely or Swindon.
Muckaway:
What’s the big deal with blue pallets? We’re not meant to use them but do when red ones are scarce.
Not forgetting plastic pallets, absolute pain the arse when wet and slide about on taillifts.
i know the blue one’s are hired out from chep, so they are property of chep, i have read on here that chep do send people out to collect the pattet’s, and they also hire private dectives’ watching pallet yard’s to see if they are selling them…
In my experience most pallet yards will buy blue pallets!
The get 'em chep tho.
Kept me in dinner money & donkey money for years! And iPhones
TNT Trucker:
In my experience most pallet yards will buy blue pallets!
Serves them right… I once found a Czech Railways mark under the blue paint…
The Chep Pallet business is genius.
If you are a widget manufacturer who ships the widgets out on pallets you can buy them for, say, £5 each. You might get some back but you would have to pay for the transport and most will end up being sold or used by others.
Chep will rent high quality pallets to you for (say) 10p a week. You only pay Chep for the weeks between taking delivery and getting a receipt from the customer. So if you are well organised that may only be (say) three weeks, and no return transport costs.
Of course some of your customers are not in the scheme so no receipt - the pallet gets lost and you keep paying the rent. No matter, it’s only 10p. Now multiply it up. You are using a thousand pallets a week so there are 3000 in the system. The rent is £300 if they are all taken off your stock after 3 weeks, but of course they are not. So, gradually after time, you are paying for more and more pallets that got lost from your system. The only way to clear it is to ‘buy’ the pallets (the ones you don’t have) for £10 each.
It’s more complicated than that but that’s the essence.
You get audited by chep once a year any pallets missing and its a hefty bill. We moved to ipp pallets about 3 year ago all one way now apart from greggs, so we dont give a hee haw if they go missing.
I liked chep though, say if you had just done all your milti drops up in dundee and your collection got cancelled well you could fire into one of your customers and pick up 260. Only hassle was the de-hire at chep Glasgow(now closed) the queues where brutal but got your hours in i suppose.
When Chep (originally part of the GKN Holdings group) opened the first pallet depot, I, and quite a few more thought it must be some sort of loss-making enterprise for tax purposes. Just how wrong can anyone be?
Wheel Nut:
The pallet business is a strange animal. I have loaded from Chep in Birmingham with a full shute of blues and delivered them to Rouen France and my backload has been a full shute of blues from Rennes for the UK.We also did the Gefco boxes and they had similar ideas
I loaded GKN Avomouth with a full load of empty pallets and took them to Venice, to a yard full of GKN pallets - baffles to me to this day, but I got paid and was a good run ( empty packaging so bypassed all the Swiss palaver)
Rikki-UK:
I loaded GKN Avomouth with a full load of empty pallets and took them to Venice, to a yard full of GKN pallets - baffles to me to this day, but I got paid and was a good run ( empty packaging so bypassed all the Swiss palaver)
Yeah, that remind me, I once delivered two pallets, to each of them empty paint bucket was attached with the duct tape. When I arrived, the guys asked what I have and then asked me to park next to skip…