Then he remembered something he heard seven years prior when working at a pallet-repair factory.
The floor onto which the car was driven is essentially a pallet in an automated warehouse.
An average CHEP pallet travels only 40 miles getting backhauled for every 100 miles it's carrying goods.
Brambles bought CHEP in 1958 and launched pallet pools in the U.K. in 1975 and in the U.S. in 1990.
Shares in the Anglo-Australian industrial services group Brambles have tumbled on worries about the performance of the company's pallet-leasing business.
The company's pallet business - called CHEP - is the world's largest, and accounts for half of Brambles' operating profits.
The candidate, Gov. Bush, will be offered a customized menu of foods designed for his palate, not taken from some pallet.
For her new piece, she has combined donated art supplies a wooden pallet and artists' mannequin dolls with one of her water-damaged paintings.
They saw something moving under a wooden pallet lying on top of the floating wooden pontoon and called in RSPCA inspectors.
The homely, unappreciated wooden pallet is scarcely an object of high technology.
Investors were worried that margins remained under pressure, and that the European pallet business was taking longer than expected to turn around.
Pallet counts were verified, digital photos taken, the trucks loaded and sealed.
The hardware, which ships on a pallet, includes 4-foot-high steel boxes with a built-in desk that sports a rubberized keyboard and rollerball mouse.
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But Edwin avoids consuming caffeine as a rule, and the pallet of Frava had been collecting dust, hidden in one of his cabinets ever since.
Don't think of pallet experts as the most boring people alive.
Yet when Diana and the girls had gone on their vacation and I was able to reclaim my pallet in the garage attic, I felt despicably lonely.
In a shed at the back of the old brewery, there is a cage pallet of their signature 75cl bottles, packed with a new beer, Equilibrista (Italian for tight-rope walker).
As we break down the shipment from tens of thousands of units, to a truckload, then a pallet load, finally to the one single item sitting on the store shelf.
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Huge metallic claws resting on uplit pedestals compete for attention against giant inflatable rats singing love songs to each other and a boardwalk twisted into rollercoaster-like hoops by a pallet truck.
The front and rear multilink suspension has been revised to provide better cornering, body control and, most important, isolation, with a pallet full of hydro-elastic bushings between suspension bits and chassis.
The result is a compact unit with two Humvee-size primary wheels for one soldier or more and up to a 2, 000-pound pallet of gear, extending with today's technologies into also being a soldier's ready robot - big robot - to take on high risk tasks, scouting maneuvers, resupply or deception tactics.
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