Double handling refers to moving freight more than once before it reaches its final destination. In a traditional warehousing model, product is unloaded from an inbound truck, placed into storage, picked from storage, and then loaded onto an outbound truck. That’s two handling events with a storage interval between them, adding labor cost, time, and damage risk at every touch.
Cross-docking eliminates the storage step. Freight moves from inbound to outbound in a single transfer sequence. One handling event. The platform is what makes that possible at the local level.
