How many buckets, containers, and jerry cans fit on a pallet

Buckets taper toward the bottom, so empty ones stack inside each other, and each extra bucket adds only a little height. That's the big difference from jerry cans: a pallet holds 1,920 of the 5.6 L buckets but only 180 of the 5 L jerry cans, less than a tenth as many for a similar capacity.

Jerry cans don't nest: they have a closed body, a neck, and a molded-in handle. A pallet of 5 L cans adds up to 900 L of capacity, and a pallet of 10 L cans to 1,000 L. It doesn't weigh much, about 43 and 42 kg of plastic respectively, but it takes up a lot of space in the truck.

The 250, 385, 400, and 550 ml containers and the 750 ml tray are very light: 13 to 21 g each. How many fit on a pallet depends on the item's shape and packing, so our sales manager gives the exact figure in the estimate. Delis and food delivery services find it convenient to order them in one shipment with buckets for prepped ingredients.

Empty packaging is light: a pallet of 21 L buckets is about 372 kg of plastic, and a pallet of 1 L buckets about 233 kg. Metal bail handles add weight: on the 18 L size the handle weighs 60 g, which adds another 36 kg across 600 buckets. With empty packaging, a truck usually fills up by volume before it reaches its weight limit.