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Author: Bob Haugen <bob.haugen@gmail.com>
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+#Cross Docking
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+Excerpted from this [wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-docking).
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+> Cross-docking is a practice in the logistics of unloading materials from an incoming
+semi-trailer truck or railroad car and loading these materials directly into outbound
+trucks, trailers, or rail cars, with little or no storage in between.
+This may be done to change the type of conveyance, to sort material intended for different destinations,
+or to combine material from different origins into transport vehicles (or containers)
+with the same destination or similar destinations.
+
+> Cross-dock operations were first pioneered in the US trucking industry in the 1930s[citation needed],
+and have been in continuous use in less-than-truckload (LTL) operations ever since.
+The US military began using cross-docking operations in the 1950s.
+Wal-Mart began using cross-docking in the retail sector in the late 1980s.
+
+> In the LTL trucking industry, cross-docking is done by moving cargo from one transport vehicle
+directly onto another, with minimal or no warehousing. In retail practice, cross-docking operations
+may utilize staging areas where inbound materials are sorted, consolidated,
+and stored until the outbound shipment is complete and ready to ship.
