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Chatting => Frugal Living => Topic started by: darby on December 24, 2009, 00:03

Title: Blue Pallets
Post by: darby on December 24, 2009, 00:03
Hi,

I have been given some pallets by my employer to build a compost bin with, but they are blue.

I have read that the blue ones are owned by a company, and they will prosecute you if they discover you have them.  :wacko:

As far as I can see I have four options:

Return them
Destroy/burn them
Paint them another colour and use them
Use them as they are

What would you do? Does anyone actually know someone who has got into trouble for using them?
Title: Re: Blue Pallets
Post by: Gwiz on December 24, 2009, 07:33
I'd not use them.
They are owned by a company, and they do charge if you damage/ destroy them.
There is usually some of the plain wood pallets knocking around if you wait a while. :)
Title: Re: Blue Pallets
Post by: DavidT on December 26, 2009, 20:30
They are owned by GKN, and if you use them without permission, and inappropriately ,they will charge you something like £15 per pallet per week.
Title: Re: Blue Pallets
Post by: Ice on December 26, 2009, 20:43
A fee like that seems unpalletable. :lol:

I'll get me coat. ::)
Title: Re: Blue Pallets
Post by: darby on December 26, 2009, 22:16
Thanks, I have returned them to work and got some plain ones now.
Title: Re: Blue Pallets
Post by: gcorb on December 29, 2009, 12:32
Darby you neeed to return the pallets as it is illegal to use them. The pallets are rental only and remain the ownership of CHEP, if you repaint or use them you could be subject to prosecution.
if you call 0161 972 8171 the company will collect free of charge

Hope this helps

Hi,

I have been given some pallets by my employer to build a compost bin with, but they are blue.

I have read that the blue ones are owned by a company, and they will prosecute you if they discover you have them.  :wacko:

As far as I can see I have four options:

Return them
Destroy/burn them
Paint them another colour and use them
Use them as they are

What would you do? Does anyone actually know someone who has got into trouble for using them?
:(
Title: Re: Blue Pallets
Post by: joyfull on December 29, 2009, 15:05
I think some may belong to another pallet company as well (possibly GKN) the correct companies name should be printed on the pallet.
Title: Re: Blue Pallets
Post by: Steven Rowe on January 01, 2010, 12:27
Ill probally get a shouting after this but id just paint them and use them, ive had 100's of those threw my hands over the years, and no one seems to care about them,most of the slabs and stone i use come on these,i ask the supplys if they want them back and most of the answers are "just burn them or skip them" ive even had a "if you return them we'll have to charge you a small handleing fee" :wacko:
Title: Re: Blue Pallets
Post by: Yorkie on January 01, 2010, 15:13
Yes, Steven, you are going to get a shouting at  :mad:

Doing what you suggest (without first asking the owner company of the blue pallets) is just not on - in fact it's probably theft - and we do not condone breaking the law, or encouraging others to do so, on this forum.

There.  End of shout.  :)
Title: Re: Blue Pallets
Post by: arugula on January 06, 2010, 15:44
Round this part of the country the blue pallets are the responsibility of/owned by CHEP. They phone up quite regularly (invariably when one is single-handedly minding the fort and therefore without time for protracted and pointless phone conversations) to arrange collection then they never turn up to take them away!  :mad:
Title: Re: Blue Pallets
Post by: Steven Rowe on January 06, 2010, 17:53
Round this part of the country the blue pallets are the responsibility of/owned by CHEP. They phone up quite regularly (invariably when one is single-handedly minding the fort and therefore without time for protracted and pointless phone conversations) to arrange collection then they never turn up to take them away!  :mad:

Thats what the build centre/keyline tell me when i try to hand them back
Title: Re: Blue Pallets
Post by: stompy on January 07, 2010, 08:34
I would have just used them. ;)

I had 4 given to me by my employer too.
Someone on my site told me much the same thing as yorkie.
So i rang the owners on more than one occation to come pick them up. they still havn't been and it's 4 years on now.

There are thousand of them laid around broken at roadsides, on waste ground all over. they don't seem to want those ones either.
And darby, as your employer gave you them, surely he/she would be liable to pay any charges, not you  :unsure:
Title: Re: Blue Pallets
Post by: spud on January 11, 2010, 13:48
Perhaps you could have sold them on? Blue ones are worth cash money!

Cheers

 ;)
Title: Re: Blue Pallets
Post by: 2peasinapod on January 14, 2010, 10:05
my local "we buy any pallet" type place wont touch em.
Title: Re: Blue Pallets
Post by: compostqueen on January 14, 2010, 12:50
I have some on my plot, been there for years, at the back of my shed where I use them for storing all sorts of things on. No blue pallet police have ever turned up to claim em back, or are they ever likely to.

If I am a criminal, then I shall turn myself in at once. I'm sure the police would be really interested  :tongue2:
Title: Re: Blue Pallets
Post by: bailey on February 14, 2010, 08:54
yep blues are owned by CHEP, and are a rental income,, however it is widely said that you can be prosecuted for using blues ect,, but the company is massive and are not interested in sending trucks out to collect 3 pallets from there 4 here 2 over there..
local buy your pallet companies won,t touch them because they have to pay you for them yet Chep won,t pay them..

alot of deliveries to homes that come on blues the cost of the pallet renatl as such will be incorporated into the charge for delivery or the goods themselves..

I would not worry if you use a few which have been given as such,

i worked at a place that had 1000,s of these and to my knowledge they are still awaiting collection, 2 years after I have arranged collection.
Title: Re: Blue Pallets
Post by: digalotty on February 16, 2010, 22:51
if you go round your local factories and building sites or merchants im sure they will be glad to give you as many pallets as you want within reason and no one is breaking any laws or upsetting anyone  :)
Title: Re: Blue Pallets
Post by: craggy on February 19, 2010, 21:32
if you go round your local factories and building sites or merchants im sure they will be glad to give you as many pallets as you want within reason and no one is breaking any laws or upsetting anyone  :)
pallets are usefull,even if you never use em :nowink: