Pallets for Sale in Burbank: Two Sides of the Airport, Two Orders

We deliver pallets for sale in Burbank from our Los Angeles yard on the I-5 and 170 east-Valley run: 48x40 block for the airport belt, 48x36 for printing and packaging, custom and heat treated for aviation parts, staging pallets for the studios. Same-week delivery is common, and delivery is free from 100 pallets.

Pallets for a Burbank address at a glance

Item	What a Burbank address gets
Route from the yard	I-5 north, then the 170 for the stops west of the airport; the same run as Sun Valley and North Hollywood
Delivery timing	Same-week is common; same-day or next-day for in-stock sizes, with a small premium on rush
Free delivery	Orders of 100 pallets or more; a modest distance-based charge below that
Consumer goods (airport belt)	48x40 block, nine-block deck, forklift entry from all four sides, 33-48 lbs; a 53-foot trailer holds about 26 in one layer
Printing and packaging	48x36 block pallet, the size used for paper and packaging
Aviation parts going abroad	Built to the drawing from 12x12 and heat treated to ISPM-15 with the IPPC stamp; plan on 7-10 business days
Studios (staging pallets and crates)	48x40 staging pallets from stock; crate boxes built in 3-5 business days, up to 10 when they need foam, bracing or treated lumber
After wrap (return leg)	We buy reusable pallets from 30 units and haul broken or mixed stock free from 50; the pickup is priced as its own leg

Pallets for Sale in Burbank: Which Side of the Airport the Order Is On

Burbank is the eastern end of the San Fernando Valley, laid out around a freeway and a runway. The I-5 runs the length of the city, the 134 crosses its southern half, and Hollywood Burbank Airport fills the northwest corner with Empire Avenue along its edge. Aviation services, printers and consumer-goods warehouses cluster around the airport; the studios and independent productions sit along San Fernando Boulevard and south toward the Media District.

From the yard on 78th Street the truck takes the I-5 north, and the stops west of the airport come off the 170. That puts a Burbank dock on the same east-Valley run as Sun Valley and North Hollywood, which is why pallets for sale in Burbank are not a special trip for us: most orders land the same week, and same-day or next-day is available when the size is in stock.

What the truck carries is decided by which side of the airport it is heading to.

The Empire Avenue Belt: Consumer Goods, Printing and Aviation

The industrial belt wraps the airport: aviation service shops, commercial printers and packaging converters, and distributors moving consumer goods out to retail, along Empire Avenue and the streets behind it. These are standing accounts. The count is roughly the same every week, the dock has set receiving hours, and the only question on a new order is which of two block sizes goes on the truck.

48x40 for the Dock, 48x36 for the Pressroom

A consumer-goods distributor ships to retail and distribution docks that are racked for one footprint, so the order is 48x40 standard block pallets: a nine-block deck that a forklift or pallet jack enters from all four sides, 33 to 48 lbs apiece, with a safe working limit near 2,500 lbs while the load is moving. Two fit across a 53-foot trailer, so one layer is about 26 pallets, the figure belt accounts use to size a weekly or biweekly run.

The printers and packaging converters around the airport are a different order. Paper and packaging move on the 48x36, the narrower block size we stock for exactly that trade, and a pressroom that has been forcing paper stock onto 48x40 block pallets is usually paying for four inches of deck it does not use. The two sizes ride the same truck, so a plant that prints and also ships finished goods orders both on one line.

Size	Who orders it in the airport belt
48x40 block	Consumer-goods distributors shipping to retail and distribution docks
48x36 block	Printers and packaging converters moving paper and packaging
42x42 block	Paint and drum loads that need equal support on every side
Custom, from 12x12	Aviation parts and anything built to a drawing

Aviation Parts: Custom Dimensions and the HT Stamp

The aviation service shops are the belt's exception. A component comes to us as a drawing, not a pallet size, and we build custom size pallets to it at the yard: any footprint from 12x12 up, heavier deck boards or extra blocks when the part is dense, a flush deck when the base has to sit flat. A single prototype is a sensible first order, since nothing forces a minimum. Simple dimensions come off the line in 3 to 5 business days; add reinforcement or heat treatment and plan on 7 to 10.

Heat treatment is the line that matters here, because a part that leaves the country by air or by sea travels on wood that customs will inspect. The heat treated ISPM-15 pallets we build are brought to 56C (132.8F) through the full thickness of the wood, kept there for 30 continuous minutes, then stamped on two opposite sides with the wheat symbol, the US code and the letters HT. The cargo terminals at LAX enforce it the same way the ports do, so heat treated pallets for air cargo are not optional once the airway bill says overseas. Two things trip up first-time shippers: assuming a standard domestic pallet is treated, and adding untreated dunnage or bracing to a stamped pallet, which can flag the whole shipment. What customs checks on a heat treated pallet goes through the stamp line by line.

The Studio Side: Staging Pallets Before the Shoot, a Truck After Wrap

Cross the I-5 and the business changes. Along San Fernando Boulevard and down into the Media District, the buyers are studios, independent productions and the shops that serve them, and nobody there orders against a weekly run. They order against a shoot date, which does not move, and then against a wrap date, which sometimes moves closer.

Staging Pallets on a Shoot Calendar

Most of what a production moves is equipment: lighting cases, cable, rigging, flats. It goes on and off trucks on plain 48x40 staging pallets, and plain is right: every liftgate truck a rental house sends handles it, and a dynamic load of about 2,500 lbs covers anything a grip department stacks. Shoot schedules compress without warning, so the productions that run smoothly keep a small buffer on the lot instead of ordering the day the trucks arrive; with no buffer, same-day delivery is possible at a small premium.

Oversized set pieces and camera packages do not belong on a pallet at all. Those get custom crate boxes from our build line, in 3 to 5 business days or up to 10 once foam, bracing or treated lumber is involved. Which crate fits which freight is a separate decision with its own article.

Wrap Day: Getting Pallets and Crates Off the Lot

Wrap is the part nobody plans for. The stage has to be empty by a date, and what is left on it is surplus staging pallets, crates back from location, and a stack of mixed inbound pallets from the rental houses in sizes nobody chose. That pile is a pickup, and we run it as its own leg. From 30 reusable pallets we buy the stack and pay when we load it; from 50 broken or mixed pallets the removal is free, with a small charge below that by location. The crew comes within 24 to 48 hours of the call, same-day when the stage is being turned over, and loads everything unsorted. Our pallet pickup and removal service takes everything except pallets contaminated with hazardous material.

What a Pallet Company in Burbank Should Tell You Before You Order

Here is the honest version of the search result. We are not in Burbank. Our yard is at 1160 East 78th Street, in Florence, just below Vernon, and the pallets that reach Empire Avenue are built, inspected and loaded there, on our own trucks. That matters because a pallet company in Burbank, or one that says it serves Burbank, is often a broker with no yard at all, and the markup is the only thing it adds.

Before any Burbank order, whoever you are talking to should be able to state five things without putting you on hold:

1. Where the pallet physically comes from. A yard address, not a phone number. Ours is published.
2. The delivered price as one number. Delivery is free from the 100th pallet up; below that the distance-based charge belongs on the quote, not on the invoice.
3. The delivery day and the route. For pallet delivery in Burbank that is the I-5 and the 170, same-week in the normal case, same-day or next-day for in-stock sizes.
4. What happens to the surplus. Whether they buy it back, remove it, or leave it behind the building.
5. Who answers in Spanish. Our Spanish line is staffed through quoting, scheduling and delivery, not routed to one person who is sometimes in.

Pricing is quote-based and tiered: under 50 pallets is retail, 100 and up is wholesale, 500 and up is high-volume, and recurring accounts are priced better than one-time orders. If the order is bigger than Burbank, what the rest of the Valley orders walks through Sun Valley, Chatsworth and North Hollywood by buyer type.

The Return Leg Out of Burbank

Our truck does not go back to Florence empty. The belt's inbound freight arrives on somebody else's pallets, in sizes that have nothing to do with the outbound, and the studio side leaves a pile on every wrap. Belt accounts with a steady stream put the pickup on a weekly or biweekly schedule; productions call it in once. Delivery and pickup are priced separately so each number stays readable.

The order of stops is set by the map: up the I-5, the 48x40 and 48x36 loads along Empire Avenue first, then across to San Fernando Boulevard for the staging pallets or the wrap-day pickup. Anyone comparing pallets for sale in Burbank only has to say which side of the airport they are on and how many a week. The yard answers in English or Spanish six days a week, 6 AM to 8 PM.

Frequently Asked Questions

How quickly do pallets reach a Burbank dock?

Burbank is on our east-Valley run up the I-5 and the 170, so same-week delivery is common and same-day or next-day is available for in-stock pallets, with a small premium on rush orders. Delivery is free once the order reaches 100 pallets.

Which pallet size does a Burbank printer or packaging shop order?

Usually the 48x36 block pallet, which is the size used for paper and packaging loads. Consumer-goods distributors shipping to retail docks order the 48x40, and both ride the same truck.

Do aviation parts leaving Burbank need heat treated pallets?

If the part leaves the country, yes. Air cargo and ocean freight both require ISPM-15: the wood is heated to 56C right through, kept there for 30 minutes, then marked with the IPPC stamp. We build the pallet to the part's dimensions and heat treat it; allow 7 to 10 business days.

Can you pick up staging pallets and crates from a Burbank stage after wrap?

Yes. We buy reusable pallets from 30 units and pay when we load them, and we haul broken or mixed stock free from 50 units; under that a small charge applies by location. A crew is booked 24 to 48 hours out, and the pickup is priced as its own leg.