The Lock Ridge Group
About
NOT A PALLET COMPANY. NOT A BROKER. YOUR ADVOCATE.
We spent years sorting pallets inside national retail distribution centers. We know how pallet companies and brokers operate — and we know what that's costing you.
Now we work exclusively for warehouse GMs and regional managers who are done overpaying.
We audit your pallet spend. We identify what you're losing on core returns, scrap pricing, and sorter conflicts of interest. We build you a strategy that cuts costs, recovers revenue, and reduces labor hours — without selling you a single pallet.
Our clients save millions. You can too.
You don't need another vendor. You need someone who knows the other side of the table.
That's us.
Our services
Consult/ Train
Our proprietary Quality Pallet Audit examines your sorting method, your pallet turnover cadence — daily, weekly, monthly — and the internal data points that reveal exactly where your program is leaking money.
No assumptions. No generic recommendations. Just your numbers, analyzed by people who have done this work from the inside.
You walk away with:
• A comprehensive forward plan tailored to your DC
• Targeted training recommendations for your team
• Sorter position guidance that puts the right incentives in place
• Pallet pit workflow improvements that cut labor hours and increase recovery
More ROI. Less waste. A stronger operation — and the kind of results that get noticed at the national level.
The Sorter = Pallet Cost Saving
Not by accident. By design.
Here is something your pallet company and broker already know — and are counting on you not figuring out:
The sorter controls every pallet that moves inside your facility and everything that leaves it.
*That is not a dock function. That is a financial control point.*
When the pallet company offers to put their sorter in your building, they are not doing you a favor on payroll tax and insurance. They are planting the person who decides what your pallets are worth — and you are more than likely being billed for their hours. That alignment is not an accident.
We flip it.
We come in, assess your current sorter position, and build a specific plan around it — training, workflow, daily and monthly goals — designed to do one thing: reduce the number of pallets you have to purchase.
When your sorter is trained right, grading for your benefit, and tracking recovery against real targets, the volume of purchased pallets drops. Every month. Measurably.
That is not a theory. That is what happens when the most important position on your dock finally works for you.
From Cost Center to Profit Center
That is not a strategy. That is surrender.
Here is what we know from working inside distribution centers: a well-run pallet operation — with the right sorter, the right grading process, and the right buyer relationships — does not just reduce your costs. It generates revenue.
Your overflow pallets have value. Significant value. The question is whether that value flows to you or to the pallet company picking them up for next to nothing.
We are built to make it flow to you.
But this step comes second. Not first.
We earn the right to build a profit center by proving ourselves on the fundamentals: the Quality Pallet Audit, the sorter position restructure, the workflow improvements that measurably reduce your purchased pallet volume. When you see those results — when the savings are real and documented — the trust is there to go further.
From that foundation, we build together. No added staff. No new complexity. A managed overflow pallet program that turns what was once a yard problem into a monthly revenue line.
Your pallet problem becomes a profit center.
That is the whole point.
That is the partnership we are here to build.














