Plastic pallet

A pallet comprising a one-piece molded plastic platform having a planar upper load-receiving surface and a lower surface, a plurality of elongated wood skids underlying and engaged with selected portions of the lower surface of the plastic platform, said skids being in laterally spaced generally parallel relation to each other and presenting floor engaging, unencumbered planar bottom surfaces, the skids defining sliding supports for said platform of a height and spaced for the accommodation of lift equipment below said platform, and means for fixing the wood skids to the lower surface of said platform, said means for fixing the skids to the platform comprising upwardly opening notches transversely across the upper portions of the wood skids, integral hollow ribs depending from the corresponding selected portions of the lower surface of the platform and completely received within each said skid notch, each rib being elongated and substantially coextensive with the corresponding notch, fasteners engaged through said notch-received ribs and into the skids, the selected portions of the lower surface of the platform, other than said ribs, presenting planar surfaces coextensive with and engaged flat against the tops of the skids said molded plastic platform being capable of slight flexure so as to comform to a superimposed load upon the application of banding straps about the platform and load.