Service area — Albert Lea, MN
Pallets delivered to Albert Lea, at the I-35 and I-90 crossroads.
About 60 miles west of our Rochester yard, straight out I-90. Albert Lea sits where two interstates cross, which makes it a shipping town as much as a manufacturing one — and that shows up in what people there need from a pallet.
What Albert Lea actually ships
Albert Lea is a heavy manufacturing community: food manufacturing and the suppliers that feed it, metal working, and a set of higher-tech operations that have grown up alongside them. The I-35 and I-90 interchange means a lot of what is made there leaves on a long haul rather than a local run.
Long haul is where pallet quality stops being a line item and starts being risk. A unit that survives a forty-mile trip to a regional DC may not survive eight hundred miles of interstate, multiple handlings and a rack at the far end. The failure does not show up on your dock — it shows up as a damage claim from a customer three states away.
If your freight goes further than your neighbours' does, it is worth having the conversation about whether your pallet is specified for the distance.
What we bring up the road
Three ways to solve the same problem. Which one is right depends on what your load weighs, how many times it gets handled, and whether the pallet ever comes back to you.
New pallets
Built to an engineered spec in any deck dimension from 24" to 65". Hardwood, softwood or KDHT SPF, with certified heat treat stamps for export.
See new pallets →Refurbished pallets
Inspected, repaired and sorted into Preferred, A and B grades, so you can order against a standard instead of hoping.
See refurbished →Custom design & build
For loads outside 24" to 65", or where the requirement is the construction rather than the size. Modelled before anything gets built.
See custom →The Albert Lea run
And what goes back
The truck does not have to come home empty. We buy and collect your empty pallets, and we will take baled or loose cardboard off the same dock on the same stop — which for most plants is corrugate they are currently paying a hauler to remove.
Also worth a look
Talk to usJoe Dal Santo
630-747-8202
Email Joe
Yard405 20th Street SE
Rochester, MN 55904
Mon–Fri, 8:00am–5:00pm
Delivering to Albert LeaOn our own trucks, roughly 60 miles each way. Straight trucks for tight docks, semis for full loads, Moffett where there is no dock.