The pallet - the transport container made of a tree, used for movement of various freights by an effective way, moved by means of loaders and hydraulic carts. Other name of pallets - pallets.

The freights placed on pallets can be wrapped up streych by films or are drawn by fixing tapes. The most widely used wooden pallet when transporting freights in our country, and also in the countries of the European Union, has the specific sizes of 120*80*14,5 cm.

The empty wooden pallet weighs about 20 kilograms, depending on its exact design, and also from humidity of timber from which it is executed.

The majority of pallets maintains freights weighing from 1 ton and above.

Use in transportation of freights of containers for rail transportation, and also motor and sea transport almost for all types of freights, led a pallet to universal use, it resulted from economic feasibility and usability, when transporting in containers with a smooth bottom.