Pallets in Hernando, Mississippi

BOX 01The county seat

Hernando is the seat of DeSoto County. US 51 and I-55 pass through it north to south and I-69 crosses east to west. The city lies about 25 miles south of Memphis by I-55 or US 51, and the completion of I-269 is credited with boosting local jobs and investments (Wikipedia).

BOX 02A growth town, not a warehouse belt

Much of the DeSoto County warehouse story is told north of here, in Olive Branch and Southaven. Hernando's own growth is residential and commercial: new subdivisions, shopping, offices and light industrial buildings. That changes the pallet picture from large piles to many small ones.

Construction and fit-out are a source of their own. A new store or tenant space receives fixtures, flooring and appliances on pallets, and the contractor wants them gone after the delivery is unpacked. Those are often odd sizes, single-use, and sometimes new.

BOX 03Reading a Hernando pile

BOX 04Your request

Give the street ZIP code, the count, the sizes you can measure and whether the pile is in a yard or on a dock. For a bigger buyer market, see Olive Branch.

BOX 05The beltway starts here

The southern terminus of I-269 is at the I-55 and I-69 junction near Hernando, where MS 304 also meets the interstates (Wikipedia). The segment from there to MS 305 opened on October 26, 2018, completing the route and connecting I-40 with I-55.

The article credits the completed beltway with boosting local jobs and investment in the city. New commercial buildings mean new fit-out and construction deliveries, and those arrive on pallets.

BOX 06A short request from the county seat

"About 60 pallets, mixed sizes, left after a store fit-out in Hernando; roughly half broken; on the sidewalk side of a rear lot with truck access." That is a request in two lines. The county seat has many of these, because new buildings generate piles that the contractor does not want to keep.

BOX 07Hernando and the state line

Hernando is about 25 miles from Memphis, so a truck from there reaches Southeast Memphis in well under an hour in normal traffic. That distance makes Hernando piles more portable than their small size would suggest.