Tool
What is on your dock?
Dock Sorter reads what is on your dock and says plainly whether it looks worth selling, worth sorting or just clearing. It shows its assumptions and sends the request with your answer attached.
Tell the sorter what is on your dock
Reads as: worth sorting
Sort first, or sell it as a mixed load
A large mixed pile holds cores, Grade B and a few good 48x40s. Pulling the sound 48x40s to one side before you send the request tends to change how the pile reads.
- Closest condition
- mixed
- Leg
- Add a town or ZIP
- Read from
- Your picks only. No prices, no promises.
How the sorter reads a dock
The sorter has no price list and no inventory behind it. It applies the same reading a pallet buyer applies at a glance: how uniform the pile is, how sound it looks, how many there are and whether it comes back. Your answers are the only input.
| You pick | It reads as | Closest condition |
|---|---|---|
| Sorted 48x40s in good shape | Worth selling | Grade A |
| A mixed pile you have not sorted | Worth sorting first, or selling as a mixed load | Mixed |
| Odd or oversize sizes | Worth selling, with every size listed | Mixed |
| Broken and worn pallets | Just clearing; recurring piles go on a schedule | Core |
| Pallets going out | A buy | Grade B, unless you say otherwise |
What the legs mean
Type a town or ZIP and the sorter names the leg of the junction your dock sits on. Legs group ZIPs by the corridor they sit nearest to: I-44 Southwest, I-40 West, I-35 North, I-40 East and I-35 South. A town it does not recognise gets no leg; the request still goes. The five legs explain each corridor.
What it does not do
It does not quote a price, promise a pickup or confirm that anyone will buy. A reading of 'worth selling' means the description is the kind that gets answered. For why a pile reads one way or another, see what a load is worth and selling mixed loads.
Using the result
The reading is meant to prompt a decision, not make one. If it says worth selling, follow the sell links and describe the stack. If it says worth sorting, put aside the sound pallets first and then decide. If it says just clearing, a short note about count and access is enough.
You can run the sorter more than once. A dock often holds two piles, one better than the other, and each deserves its own reading.
Limits of the reading
The sorter does not see your pile. It reads your answers, so a hopeful answer produces a hopeful reading. Answer as if a stranger would inspect the stack tomorrow.
Questions, answered
Does the sorter store my answers?
The answers travel with the request you choose to send. Nothing is sent until you press the send button.