Pallet Calculator

Calculate how many pallets fit in a trailer or truck, and how many of them can be carried within the weight limits of the United States or the European Union.

Vehicle and Pallets

Jurisdiction

Vehicle

Pallet

Each Pallet, Loaded

Length in Width in Height in Weight lb

Loading

Pallets may be stacked on one another Pallets may be turned side-on where more fit that way

30 pallets within the limits30 pallets fit the load space · 76,000 lb gross · 100% of payload

Pallet Count

Pallets on the floor	30
Layers	1
Pallets that fit the load space	30
Pallets within the weight limits	30
Weight of the pallets carried	45,000 lb
Payload available	45,000 lb

The payload available is the payload rating of the body. The pallets are turned side-on, which fits more of them on the deck.

See where each pallet goes, and plan a mixed load, in the load planner.

Open in the Load Planner

Axle Loads

Axle Group	Load	Limit	Margin
Steer Axle	12,242 lb	20,000 lb	+7,758
Drive Tandem	30,907 lb	34,000 lb	+3,093
Trailer Tandem	32,851 lb	34,000 lb	+1,149
Gross Combination Weight	76,000 lb	80,000 lb	+4,000

How the pallets are counted

The calculator first places as many pallets as the load space will hold, along the deck and across it, turning them side-on where more fit that way, and stacking them where they may be stacked. A stacked pallet must rest on at least 80% of its base.

It then searches for the arrangement that carries the most of those pallets within every limit: the gross weight, each axle and axle group, the bridge formula in the United States and the drive axle share in the European Union. Where the weight limits allow fewer pallets than the load space holds, the calculator states which limit prevents more.

Pallets on the floor of each vehicle

The number of unstacked pallets that fit on the floor of each of MaxLoader's vehicles, as the calculator counts them:

Vehicle	Pallet	Pallets on the floor
5-axle tractor and 53 ft semitrailer	48 × 40 in	30
5-axle tractor and 53 ft semitrailer	48 × 48 in	26
5-axle tractor and 53 ft semitrailer	42 × 42 in	30
3-axle rigid truck	48 × 40 in	14
3-axle rigid truck	48 × 48 in	12
3-axle rigid truck	42 × 42 in	12
2-axle tractor and 3-axle semitrailer, 40 t	120 × 80 cm	34
2-axle tractor and 3-axle semitrailer, 40 t	120 × 100 cm	26
3-axle tractor and 3-axle semitrailer, 40 t	120 × 80 cm	34
3-axle tractor and 3-axle semitrailer, 40 t	120 × 100 cm	26
3-axle tractor and 3-axle semitrailer, 44 t, intermodal containers or swap bodies only	120 × 80 cm	34
3-axle tractor and 3-axle semitrailer, 44 t, intermodal containers or swap bodies only	120 × 100 cm	26
3-axle rigid truck, 26 t	120 × 80 cm	18
3-axle rigid truck, 26 t	120 × 100 cm	14

Mixed loads

For a load of pallets of different sizes or weights, or of other cargo, use the load planner. Open in the Load Planner carries the pallets entered here into it.