Palletized Freight · One Pallet to a Full Trailer
Ship a single pallet or fill a trailer with twenty-six. Your pallet count decides whether it moves LTL, partial or full truckload, and we price all three so you’re not paying for a whole trailer when you’re shipping six skids. For just a pallet or two, professional sprinter van freight shipping can sometimes work out even simpler.
26 Pallets
what fits in a 53-foot trailer, single-stacked
48" x 40"
Standard pallet footprint
1
Minimum pallets to ship
26
Standard pallets per 53-foot trailer
18
Freight classes, checked before you book
Counting Skids
Before anything else gets quoted, the number of pallets you’re shipping determines which service your freight belongs to, and getting that wrong is the most expensive mistake in palletized shipping. A standard 53-foot dry van holds twenty-six standard pallets in a single layer, or up to fifty-two if your freight is stackable. Somewhere below that, sharing a trailer stops making sense. As a rough guide, one to six pallets usually rates best as LTL, seven to twelve often lands in partial truckload territory, and beyond that a full truckload is typically cheaper per pallet than paying LTL rates on every skid, and if you already have a loaded trailer, that same volume can also move as our power only freight instead. The exact tipping point shifts with weight, density and lane, which is why the same shipment can be quoted three ways and come back with three very different numbers.
Prep Matters
Most pallet damage and most surprise charges trace back to how the pallet was built before pickup, not to what happened on the road. Freight should stay inside the pallet’s footprint, since anything hanging over the edge loses the protection of the deck and gets crushed against the next skid. Heavier cartons belong on the bottom, lighter ones stacked above, with the load squared rather than pyramided. Stretch wrap should anchor the freight to the pallet itself, not just wrap the boxes to each other. Measure the pallet at its tallest and widest point after wrapping, weigh it loaded, and put those numbers on the bill of lading. Carriers re-measure and re-weigh at the terminal, and the invoice reflects what they find, not what was estimated.
Our services
The move itself, and the handling around it.
Pallet Transport
Palletized freight moves at whatever volume you’re shipping, quoted across every mode that fits, including rail freight services solutions for longer intermodal lanes.
Handling & Access
The services your delivery location may require, quoted upfront rather than added after the fact.
Industries
Businesses shipping more than a parcel and less than a trailer.
Ecommerce & DTC Brands
Small & Mid-Size Manufacturers
Trade Shows & Events
Wholesale & Distribution
Print & Packaging
Retail Suppliers
Trade Show & Event Shippers
Equipment & Parts Suppliers
A supplier sending four pallets to a retailer’s distribution center and a brand moving inventory between warehouses have the same practical problem: too much freight for parcel shipping, not enough to justify booking a trailer. Palletized freight is built for exactly that middle ground, and when timing matters more than cost, air freight services can move the same pallets faster.
Avoidable Problems
A freight class guessed at, or carried over from before the 2025 classification changes, gets corrected at the terminal and re-rated. We verify the class before booking.
Loads that shift in transit. We’ll tell you how the pallet should be built before it’s picked up.
Pricing
Pallet freight is priced on how much room it takes and how dense it is, plus whatever the delivery site requires, and if the lane crosses an ocean rather than a border, international air freight becomes the better fit for those same pallets.
How many skids and how tall each one stands
Send us your pallet count, dimensions and weight, we'll come back with rates across every mode that fits.
No Surprises On The Invoice
“We kept getting reclassification bills weeks after delivery, always for more than the original quote. ENorth checks our freight class before the shipment books, and those corrections have basically stopped.”
Shipping Manager
Print & Packaging, Toronto
“We’d been shipping nine pallets of LTL every month without questioning it. They quoted it as a partial truckload instead and it came in cheaper with fewer stops along the way. Nobody had ever suggested that before.”
Founder
Ecommerce & DTC, Milton
Pallet Questions, Answered
The North American standard is 48 inches by 40 inches. Other sizes ship fine, but non-standard footprints can affect how efficiently a trailer loads and how the shipment rates.
A standardized rating that determines LTL pricing, running from class 50 to class 500. Since July 2025, classification is primarily density-based, meaning weight relative to the space your freight occupies drives the class.
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