Pallets in Fayette County, TN

BOX 01Country with a freight ramp

Fayette County is mostly small towns. Rossville's population was 1,041 at the 2020 census and the town borders Piperton to the west and Marshall County, Mississippi, to the south. SR 57 links it to Collierville seven miles west and to Moscow eight miles east.

The ramp is why it matters here. Containers and trailers that arrive by Norfolk Southern are lifted to trucks, which spread the freight to warehouses across the Memphis market.

BOX 02What it means for pallets

A pallet buyer in Fayette County is most often a plant or distributor that receives container loads and wants the pallets moved on, or one that wants a steady supply for outbound trucks. See the Rossville page for how container pallets differ and what to write.

For the same railroad at the other end of the metro, see intermodal and rail.

BOX 03A request from the county

Give the nearest town, the road and the count. Fayette County has long distances between towns, so the road matters. SR 57 and SR 194 are the main routes through Rossville, and a building off either is easier to place.

If your pallets come from farms or small businesses, say so; the pile will be small and mixed.

BOX 04A rural county with one busy corner

Fayette County is mostly farms, small towns and light industry. The southwest corner, around Rossville and Piperton, is where the Memphis market reaches in.

Pallets from farms are usually few, mixed and weathered. They are worth describing honestly, because a buyer for clean stock will pass on them and a buyer for cores may not.

BOX 05Distances that matter

Rossville is about 30 miles east of downtown Memphis, with Collierville seven miles west on SR 57 and Moscow eight miles east. A bigger pile justifies a longer drive.

BOX 06Two state routes to know

State Route 57 runs east and west through Rossville, and State Route 194 runs north from it along Main Street. Most buildings in the Memphis edge of Fayette County sit on one or the other.

BOX 07Pallets and the farm economy

Outside the Rossville corner, Fayette County is mostly agricultural. Feed, seed and equipment deliveries arrive on pallets, and those pallets tend to be weathered and mixed. A farm supply store that has accumulated them can describe the pile in the same way as a retail back lot.

BOX 08The county in numbers

Fayette County covers 706 square miles, nearly all of it land, with Somerville as the county seat and Oakland as its largest town. The 2020 census counted 41,990 residents (Wikipedia). A four-lane Highway 64, finished in the early 1990s, drew new residents to the western end, closest to Memphis.

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