48×40 Nestable Pallet, Open Deck, 3-Runner, Snap-On

We publish 1,470 per jumbo trailer and 1,260 per 40 ft high-cube, and both carry a condition: those counts are for the pallet with the runners not fitted. Decks travel nested, runners travel loose, and someone clips them on at the far end. We would rather say that first than let the number do the talking, because the figure is often quoted with the footnote dropped.

Stated plainly, it is a high count for a 48×40, though not the highest we publish:

• NP-192 and NP-193, nine legs, complete: 1,820 and 1,500
• NP-132, runners unfitted: 1,470 and 1,260
• NP-191, nine legs, nothing to fit: 1,300 and 1,100
• NP-131, the same range with its runners fixed: 550 and 500

If empties come back to you, that is the line to read. If they do not, a detachable runner earns you nothing over a fixed one, and the NP-131 or the NP-191 may be the better buy.

• Static load 5,512 lb (2,500 kg)
• Dynamic load 3,307 lb (1,500 kg)
• Racking load 882 lb (400 kg)

That makes it the strongest nestable pallet in this catalogue, ahead of the NP-131 on all three figures. It is still not a beam-racking pallet: 882 lb is a modest racking rating and it should be read as a limit rather than a working figure. All three assume an evenly distributed load and fall with a concentrated or point load.

Light-goods export and production-line work. It is unusually good at one thing, and the ratings back it up: bulky but light loads. The deck is the full 48×40 while the pallet is a little over 20 lb, so it carries volume cheaply, and an empty one is easy and safe for one person to move by hand.

A one-shot moulded deck in high-density polyethylene and polypropylene, single-faced, ventilated so it drains and dries. Entry is four-way. Safety rims, 5 mm, to stop a load creeping on the deck, which the NP-131 does not offer at all.

It is also maintenance free and hygienic and clean: nothing to repair over its life, and an open deck that can be washed down and left to dry.

Overall height is 5.71 in (145 mm), of which the drawing gives deck 35 mm, leg 90 mm and runner 20 mm. Serviceable from −4 °F to +104 °F (−20 to +40 °C). Supplied in grey, white, navy or blue, with other colours to order. Dimensions carry a ±5 mm production tolerance.

Handled by forklift or hand pallet jack, and it is stackable.

Logo embossed, at two positions, and RFID transponders can be integrated for pool tracking.

• Long side, corner blocks 75 × 25 mm
• Short side, corner blocks 75 × 25 mm

No insert is offered on the centre leg. Printing is sometimes listed as an option for this pallet, but the labelling table marks only embossing, so embossing is what we publish. If you need a printed mark, ask us and we will confirm rather than assume.