Cost per trip lets you compare buying, renting, closed loops and plastic on one basis. For a one-way pallet it is price plus disposal minus buyback; for loops it spreads the price across the trips each pallet actually makes and adds retrieval, handling, repair and loss.
Add tare freight, the cost of hauling the pallet's own weight, to every model.
See also
- Closed loop
- A pallet program in which the same pallets circulate between known locations and come back to the owner.
- Tare weight
- The weight of the pallet itself, as opposed to the goods it carries.
- Break-even dwell
- The dwell time at which a pooled pallet costs the same per trip as an owned one.