speakers on pallet

Having shipped more than a few, I would say that speaker crates should be in the upright position (as a speaker would normally be in your home) and STRAPPED to the pallet first then shrink-wrapped.  This is the way most palletized loads have reached me over the years and it would appear best practice particularly when I remember that in the shipping distribution centers, these pallets are being moved via lift trucks that sometimes take corners too fast and the load have to deal with alot of
'sway' going around corners.

If your speakers can fit 2 on pallet, same advice but put a couple of additional straps around the crates to strap them together, then strap down to the pallet followed by the industrial roll of shrink wrap treatment.

When I got my Vandersteen 5A's, they were shipped upright bolted to pallets....not a scratch.

Yeah...thanks you guys...I think ill call manufacture...jtbs

Just talked with the boss and woofers up does it...thanks guys again.

My Thiel 2.4 SE were shipped two to a pallet with woofers up. Also, Thiel inserted some heavy foam rubber (appeared to be shipping base for some kind of speaker) in between the speakers. The foam rubber was higher than the boxes so trucking company would not try to put anything else on top of the pallet -smart! The whole thing was wrapped in that saran-wrap stuff.