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An improved load bearing pallet includes an upper deck formed from a sheet of thermoplastic material with a load engaging surface and an opposing, substantially parallel lift engaging surface. Ridges, channels, depressions, and legs, are formed in the sheet with corresponding features being necessar

An improved load bearing pallet includes an upper deck formed from a sheet of thermoplastic material with a load engaging surface and an opposing, substantially parallel lift engaging surface. Ridges, channels, depressions, and legs, are formed in the sheet with corresponding features being necessarily defined by the sheet on the opposite side. The pallet preferably includes a peripheral channel formed around a periphery of the upper deck and nine legs positioned in three rows of three creating two gaps on each side of the pallet for the tines of a fork lift to enter to lift the pallet. A plurality of strengthening ridges and channels are formed in the load bearing surface of the upper deck, with corresponding channels and ridges necessarily formed in the lifting surface of the upper deck, to resist bending and folding of the pallet. A reinforcing member received within the peripheral channel includes a steel core encapsulated within a thermoplastic coating that is molecularly bonded or cross-linked to the molecular structure of the thermoplastic material of the pallet. A lower deck or other support structure may be coupled or molecularly bonded to the upper deck. The lower deck may also include ridges, channels, depressions, legs, and reinforcing members. The pallet includes runners coupled to the legs of the decks, a stack of decks with runners, and a method for stacking decks when the decks are not in use. The pallet further includes modular dual deck pallets to allow ease of transportation and storage.

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1. A pallet comprising:a single sheet comprising a rigid but formable material, a load bearing surface on a first side of the sheet, and a lifting surface on an opposite second side of the sheet, wherein the lifting surface is substantially parallel to the load bearing surface; a plurality of depres

1. A pallet comprising:a single sheet comprising a rigid but formable material, a load bearing surface on a first side of the sheet, and a lifting surface on an opposite second side of the sheet, wherein the lifting surface is substantially parallel to the load bearing surface; a plurality of depressions in the load bearing surface corresponding to an equal number of legs extending from the lifting surface; a runner coupled to at least two of the legs, each of the at least two legs comprising a recessed portion and an exposed portion, the runner including a flat bottom runner surface, the runner being disposed in the recessed portions of the at least two legs such that the bottom runner surface is substantially flush with the exposed portions of the at least two legs; and a plurality of top channels and top ridges formed in the load bearing surface wherein each top ridge formed in the load bearing surface corresponds to a bottom channel formed in the lifting surface and each top channel formed in the load bearing surface corresponds to a bottom ridge formed in the lifting surface.