Milk Carton Crates - Are You Guilty?

So... do you use plastic milk carton crates on your apparatus? I'm not saying it's a bad thing. It's just funny to think that so many of us use these storage containers even though they have the name of the milk company embossed on the side of the crate. My hunch as to why we all love mile crates is the heavy plastic light weight construction, built in handles and open design so liquid does not accumulate. But... shouldn't we buy these instead of stealing them? Just a thought...

CBz

Got Milk Crates?
By ILAN BRAT
June 6, 2006; Wall Street Journal, Page B1

Bill Kroese hired a staffer and an efficiency consultant last year to help him stop a crime wave.

Their mission: to track missing milk crates.

Rockview Farms, Mr. Kroese's employer, lost 424,000 milk crates in 2005, up from 350,000 in 2004, he says. Replacing them cost the southern dairy business $1.6 million. This year Mr. Kroese, Rockview's safety and loss-prevention director, expects his company's milk crate costs to keep rising -- and he blames most of it on theft. "Where's that black hole out there?" he says. "Where could they all be going?"

We know that some of them are on our apparatus... Just a thought... you can buy mile crates for about $30.00 each commercially... Here's just one advertisement I found online:

The Film & Video Industry Storage Standard!

These crates are the authentic 24 quart 19 x 13 x 11, classic, heavy duty "Milk Crate" used by the film and TV Industry throughout North America. Not the college student dorm model but the genuine milk man crate designed to be abused and carry a ton of gear. Rehrig's dairy crates have a heritage that helps them not only cope, but excel. Engineered to be strong, resilient, high-density polyethylene which stands up to abuse. Use it for cables, lighting, stage boxes -- you get the picture (Do we really need to tell you how to use a milk crate ?!!!)

Features:
Ample Storage Capacity with Minimum Weight
Clean Grid Bottom
Stackable
Size: 19 x 13 x 11
Weight: 4 1/2 lbs

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain

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Permalink Reply by David Hardin on December 4, 2010 at 12:20pm

Brian: The problem is trying to herd the cats! lol

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Permalink Reply by Brian Dumser on December 4, 2010 at 12:22pm

That's where the 500 Austrialian Cattle Dogs come in. THey herd the cats.

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Permalink Reply by BillySFCVFD on December 4, 2010 at 1:47pm

Don't know the web address but I think the ad goes like this. GOT MILK....CRATE?

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Permalink Reply by Norm Tindell on December 4, 2010 at 7:07pm

We are guilty also........but they were given to us by a clerk at a convenience store. Does that reduce our sentence?

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Permalink Reply by Donald Lankford on December 5, 2010 at 2:46pm

We use boxes from PlastixPlus. www.plastixplustx.com

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Permalink Reply by Al "Top" Styles on December 5, 2010 at 3:01pm

A department I was on when I was younger had a dairy plant in our district....They would donate thier "old" ones to us, so we are guilty by association, but man they were sweet to have. Wish I had a place like that now.

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