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<blockquote data-quote="Australia Sucks" data-source="post: 1401567" data-attributes="member: 11806">Renotime I can tell you in Australia from my experience working in hardware stores and others types of business that use wooden pallets&nbsp; that pallet flipping businesses do exist in Australia but they are not as profitable and are more of a side gig. One place I worked one of the truck drivers had a pallet flipping side business and would take the empty pallets every few months (for free). He would then repair the pallets himself (some needed repairs and others did not) and resell them. The thing is though there is no regular massive pallet supply because in Australia businesses receive the majority of their stock on the resuable blue CHEP or red LOSCAM pallets which continuously get sent back to the warehouse to be reloaded and when required are repaired by CHEP or LOSCAM. For example lets say you work in a large hardware store that receives an average of 60 pallets of stock per week. There might be for example 55 LOSCAM pallets which get sent back on the delivery trucks and 5 of the plain pallets that they will give away for free to whoever wants them. So in reality a truck driver could for example do one run per fortnight driving around to all of the local business and collecting the free pallets. In summary in Australia if you already own a truck a pallet flipping side business could earn you some extra cash on the side 2 or 3 days per month but its not a viable main business.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Australia Sucks, post: 1401567, member: 11806"] Renotime I can tell you in Australia from my experience working in hardware stores and others types of business that use wooden pallets that pallet flipping businesses do exist in Australia but they are not as profitable and are more of a side gig. One place I worked one of the truck drivers had a pallet flipping side business and would take the empty pallets every few months (for free). He would then repair the pallets himself (some needed repairs and others did not) and resell them. The thing is though there is no regular massive pallet supply because in Australia businesses receive the majority of their stock on the resuable blue CHEP or red LOSCAM pallets which continuously get sent back to the warehouse to be reloaded and when required are repaired by CHEP or LOSCAM. For example lets say you work in a large hardware store that receives an average of 60 pallets of stock per week. There might be for example 55 LOSCAM pallets which get sent back on the delivery trucks and 5 of the plain pallets that they will give away for free to whoever wants them. So in reality a truck driver could for example do one run per fortnight driving around to all of the local business and collecting the free pallets. In summary in Australia if you already own a truck a pallet flipping side business could earn you some extra cash on the side 2 or 3 days per month but its not a viable main business. [/QUOTE]

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