Vancouver · Cross-Docking
Cross-Docking in Vancouver
Inbound to outbound without touching a rack, across twenty dock doors and four grade doors on East Broadway.
Cross-Docking in Vancouver, the short version
Inbound to outbound without touching a rack, across twenty dock doors and four grade doors on East Broadway. Cross-dock works when the timing is right and costs you money when it is not. We will tell you which one your freight is before you commit to a pattern. Twenty dock doors matters more here than square footage does. A cross-dock fails when no door is free at the moment the freight lands, which is a scheduling constraint rather than a space one.
Vancouver facility
- Facility size
- 200,000+ sq ft
- Clear height
- 12 to 20 feet
- Loading
- 20 dock doors + 4 grade doors
- Sprinklers
- ESFR
- Racking
- Engineered racking installed
- Power
- 2,000 amp, 600 volt service
- Available footprints
- 1,000 to 25,000+ sq ft
- Security
- 24/7 CCTV and overnight security
- On-site climate
- Ambient and heated
- Chilled and frozen
- Rolls Right Cold Storage, Vancouver
- Highway access
- 4 minutes to the Trans-Canada
- Port access
- 14 minutes to GCT Vanterm
- Operating since
- 1976 (Coquitlam), Vancouver expansion following
Capabilities
Our cross-docking capabilities
- Live unload to live load across twenty dock doors
- Sort, consolidate and rebuild loads in transit
- Short-term staging when the outbound is not ready
- Retail DC delivery with booked appointments
- Onward line haul on our own trucks, including the daily Calgary lane
- Container de-stuff straight to an outbound trailer
We also run cross-docking in Calgary.
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Get a quote
Get a cross-docking quote in Vancouver.
Tell us the volumes and the timeline. A real number back within 48 hours.
How onboarding works
From first call to first pallet.
Same process whichever service you start with.
Tell us what you move
Pallet count, how often it turns, what's in it, and where it ships. Five minutes on the form or ten on the phone.
Day 0
We quote it
Storage, handling in and out, container work and freight, every line visible. If the building doesn't fit your product we say so here, not later.
Within 48 hours
Walk the floor
Come and see it. A site tour is the fastest way to know whether a building works for you, and we'd rather you looked before you signed.
Your schedule
Credit and agreement
A standard credit check and a signed agreement. No procurement marathon, no five-year lease.
2–3 days
First receipt
Your first inbound is walked by a supervisor, not handed to whoever's on shift. After that it's routine.
Days, not months
FAQ
Cross-Docking in Vancouver, questions
How long can freight sit?
Hours rather than days is the point of cross-docking, but we have the floor to hold it if the outbound slips. We will tell you when a pattern is really short-term storage rather than a cross-dock, because they price differently.
Can you consolidate from multiple suppliers?
Yes. Inbound from several vendors, sorted and rebuilt into one outbound load is a normal pattern here.
Do you cross-dock to Calgary?
Yes. The Calgary lane runs six days a week on our own equipment, so freight can come off an inbound here and be on that trailer the same day.
Can you cross-dock straight out of a container?
Yes, and it is one of the more useful patterns we run. The container comes off the port on our own chassis, gets stripped at the dock, and goes onto the outbound without ever being put away — which removes a storage line and a handling line at the same time. It only works if the outbound is booked before the container lands, so tell us the timing early.
Worth reading first
Tell us what you move.
Pallet count, how often it turns, where it ships. A real number back inside 48 hours, and a straight answer about whether we're the right building.