Why one company beats five vendors.
Most pallet procurement gets framed as a make-or-buy question. The real question is whether your team's time is better spent managing five regional yards or running the spend through one company. This page lays out how the model actually works.
How it works
Three steps. One contact.
The mechanics behind the 12–15%. We took the procurement loop and stripped it down to the work that produces price discipline.
- 01Step 1
You tell us what you need.
Quantity, spec, ZIP, when. A spec sheet or a sticky note — either works. We handle the rest.
Most users submit through the quote form in under 90 seconds.
- 02Step 2
The whole network competes for your order.
We put your spec in front of the whole network. Every qualified supplier in your delivery radius competes for your order — not a shortlist, the full field.
The best bids land in your inbox, already worked out to true delivered cost and lead time.
- 03Step 3
Lowest-cost vetted supplier dispatches.
You approve. We dispatch. The freight, the BOL, the treatment cert — all of it routes through one contact.
Under 24 hours from quote to truck rolling on standard specs.
Direct vs. brokered
The line items, side by side.
Compare approaches
Single supplier, single market
Direct from a regional yard
A list of regional vendors
Managing it yourself
One company, vetted national network
Chesapeake Pallets
Time from request to first usable quote
Lead time to dispatch (typical)
Geographic coverage
Quality variance across loads
Volume leverage on price
Number of AP relationships
Who owns the issue when a load is wrong
The objections
The questions every CFO asks.
The model gets scrutinized — as it should. These are the questions that come up fastest when procurement walks the math to finance.
Get started
A real quote in your inbox. Pallets on the dock tomorrow.
No discovery call required. Send us a spec and we'll put it out to competition across the network — the best prices in your market, back the same day.