Calculate how many pallets fit on a truck, 53 ft trailer or 26 ft box truck using standard pallet and trailer sizes, or enter your own dimensions.

Preset sizes are typical. Enter measured inside and loaded pallet sizes for an exact count; stack only when height and load ratings allow.

Typical inside sizes; real trucks vary. Edit the length and width for your truck.

Include any load overhang in the pallet size.

Optional payload limit

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Pallets Per Truck Formula

Distinguish the shipment average A from a truck’s modeled capacity C:

A = T / N

Nrequired = ceil(T / C)

Tcapacity = C × N

Variables:

  • A is average pallets per truck; C is the capacity per truck for the selected loading model
  • T is the total number of pallets
  • N is the number of trucks used or available; Nrequired is the rounded-up number needed at capacity C

Average pallets per truck = total pallets / trucks used. Required trucks = ceil(total pallets / capacity per truck). The dimension model compares straight, rotated and mixed parallel longitudinal lanes of identical loaded footprints. It does not search every packing arrangement. Stacking, door clearance, available height, axle loads, legal payload and securement require separate verification.

What is Pallets Per Truck?

Pallets per truck refers to how many pallets are loaded on each truck. Depending on context, it can mean either (1) the truck’s maximum pallet capacity (limited by interior dimensions and/or allowable weight) or (2) the average pallets per truck for a shipment (total pallets divided by the number of trucks used). For example, a clear floor 630 in long and 100 in wide allows a straight 13 × 2 grid of 48 × 40 in loaded footprints, or 26 floor positions. This is an arithmetic example, not a specification or guaranteed capacity for a 53-foot trailer. Actual clearances, loading method, height, axle loads, securing and payload can change the usable count.

How to Calculate Pallets Per Truck?

The following steps calculate the shipment average. Select Average pallets per truck in the calculator to reproduce them.

  1. First, determine the total number of pallets.
  2. Next, determine the number of trucks available.
  3. Next, use the average formula: A = Total Pallets / Number of Trucks.
  4. Finally, calculate the Pallets Per Truck.
  5. After inserting the variables and calculating the result, check your answer with the calculator above.

Example Problem:

Use the following variables as an example problem to test your knowledge.

Total number of pallets = 150

Number of trucks available = 5

A = 150 / 5 = 30 pallets per truck on average. This does not verify that any particular truck can carry 30 pallets.