YardFlow by FreightRoll · 2026

The First
Yard Network System

Your yards are the gap in your supply-chain stack. Your TMS runs the road, your WMS runs the building, nothing runs the yards. The Yard Network System fills that gap, and it made each of over 20 sites at least $1M+ more profitable. Now rolling out to over 200 more.

20+ Sites live 200+ Under deployment $1M+ Per-site annual lift
YardFlow ·by FreightRoll 01 / 14

The YardFlow Difference

11.5× more value
than legacy YMS.

Legacy YMS is built for the largest 25 sites. YardFlow deploys in 30 minutes at a fraction of the cost, making yard automation accessible to every facility in your network. Sized conservatively, on Primo's measured results. The headline is the floor, not the ceiling.

Facilities with a YMS, 25 sites Hard savings $4.7M + production capacity $52.5M · 12.5× return on YF subscription $57.2M
Facilities w/ drops, no YMS, 10 sites Hard savings $1.0M + production capacity $13.1M · 10.2× return on YF subscription $14.1M
Facilities without drops, 15 sites Hard savings $0.8M + production capacity $6.3M · 10.8× return on YF subscription $7.1M
Legacy YMS captures 25 big sites only Spotter efficiency + detention only · the other 25 sites get nothing $7.6M
YardFlow value per year
$87.4M
across 50 facilities · vs. $7.6M from legacy YMS · 7.5-month payback
YardFlow ·11.5× More Value 02 / 14

Live in production · PRIMO BRANDS

Operating leverage,
proven at scale.

Primo started with one layer, the driver journey, before any YMS. Across the 24 sites where it went live, those yards shipped about 5% more volume on flat dock-office headcount, and drop-and-hook turns fell from 48 minutes to 24. That is why Primo committed all ~260 sites, the first national shipper to put its whole yard network on one protocol.

50%
Drop-and-hook turn time cut
48 to 24 minutes, measured at Primo
5%+
More volume on flat headcount
Driver-journey protocol live at all 24 sites, before the YMS
~260
Sites committed, first ever
flowYMS live at 10 of the 24 today, every production site by Q3

"Your software enabled us to take on additional volume while remaining headcount neutral in the dock office. That was an integral part of our strategy, and it has been proven."

Business Solutions Manager, Inventory to Deliver · Primo Brands

YardFlow ·Primo Brands · Year 1 proof 03 / 14

The way it works today

95% of yards still check trucks
in and out by hand.

Today · The Paper Process

Three-part NCR forms. Yellow stickies. Radio chatter. Driver hands over their DL at the guard shack and waits. Trucks take too long to get in and out, and that is production capacity you never get to sell.

Tomorrow · One Protocol

Same driver journey at every facility. Every move timestamped. Chain of custody cryptographically signed. Same data, same standard, in every yard you operate.

Source: FourKites State of Yard Management. Only 5% of yards have automated truck check-in and exit.

YardFlow ·The 95% Truth 04 / 14

Ground Source Truth

Same flow.
Every yard.

YardFlow is the Yard Network System, the software layer between your TMS and your WMS. One standard for every person who touches a trailer, across every yard. Each facility you add tightens variance bands for every other facility in the network.

YardFlow ·The Fix 05 / 14

Who it runs

A solution for every person who touches a trailer.

Driver
Pulls in and checks in from their phone. No app, no guard, no clipboard.
  • flowDRIVER
  • Trucks get in without waiting in line.
Spotter
Moves the trailer to its spot. A cab camera maps the whole yard by itself.
  • flowTWIN
  • The yard always knows where every trailer is.
Dock coordinator
Assigns the right door and sees every dock's live state on one screen.
  • flowYMS
  • The dock is ready before the truck parks.
Dock office
Signs the BOL digitally. Paperless, timestamped chain of custody.
  • flowBOL
  • The paperwork signs itself, and it holds up.
Executive
Watches every yard on one screen, auto-ranked by what is about to break.
  • flowNETWORK
  • One screen runs every site.

Under all five: machine vision reads the truck at the gate, builds a live yard map with no new hardware, and an agent dispatches the next move. EZ-Pass at the gate, air-traffic control for the trailers.

YardFlow ·The Five Roles 06 / 14

App-free · web.FreightRoll.com

flowDRIVER

The driver scans a QR. The rest happens for them.

Posted FreightRoll placard at the gate. Driver opens their phone camera, taps the link, lands at web.FreightRoll.com. Auto-recognized identity, auto-populated shipment.

Drop-rules + dock # + seal # arrive over native SMS. The moments that must not miss the driver get pushed to where they already check reflexively.

Final step: MACHINE VERIFIED QR opens the gate. No paperwork, no clipboard, no guard radio.

FREIGHTROLLFAST PASS
Welcome Henry Walker
PickupCo.
CarrierAnthony Stark · 10880 Malibu Pt
Trailer NumberTT5897841
Shipment548AG109AZ
Read Safety Agreement
YardFlow ·flowDRIVER 07 / 14

Passive RTLS · No new hardware lift

flowTWIN

SPOTTER CAM · position left spotter camera POV
SATELLITE · movement track satellite movement track
YARD SPOTS · 41/62 matched DETECTED · 173 frames MODEL · yolo11m + color extractor

The yard updates itself while the spotter does their job.

A camera mounted on the yard-spotter vehicle streams to FreightRoll's vision engine. Every trailer the spotter passes gets OCR'd, brand-matched, and reconciled to its yard spot, in real time, on the satellite POV.

No new RTLS infrastructure. No transponders. No bolt-on hardware. The yard truck the customer already pays for becomes the RTLS sensor.

"When drivers move trailers around, we passively recognize what they pass and update the system."
Jake Koppinger · CEO, FreightRoll

YardFlow ·flowTWIN 08 / 14

Carrier accountability · Reads truck, chassis, time

flowGATE

It reads the truck, the chassis, and the time. Who took what, and when.

One camera at the exit. Machine vision reads the truck and the chassis on the way out, not just where the chassis sits.

Driver taps nothing. Guard radios no one. The gate pass logs the carrier, the unit, the chassis, and the timestamp the moment the truck crosses the line.

A chassis that exits without a matching load gets flagged to a carrier audit. Every pass cryptographically timestamped, defensible from day one.

EXIT GATE · PASS #57 outbound · 31 frames flowGATE reading the truck at the exit gate TRUCK
Customized Trucking
USDOT4386382
Unit10003
CabWhite · Freightliner
ChassisCMCZ150496 · 53 ft
WhoCustomized Trucking
WhatChassis CMCZ150496
When15:15:38
YardFlow ·flowGATE 09 / 14

What the ops lead actually uses

flowYMS

Six attention widgets. One screen. Auto-refreshing every 30 seconds.

Drivers needing attention. Tasks needing attention. Doors needing attention. BOLs awaiting signature. Plus driver messages and empty trailers by SCAC.

Everything an ops lead used to track on a whiteboard, surfaced live, ranked by what's about to breach SLA.

Side nav drills into flowTWIN, flowGATE, dock management, driver comms, the network map. 13 views, one canvas.

YardFlow
CONSOLE · v3.7
Dashboard
Shipments
Driver Comms
Dock Mgt
flowGATE LIVE
Facility Mgt
US PL Mecosta · Dashboard Live · 30s
Drivers 2 ATTN
Witold Podolak
T925366622
Ulrin Robertson
T925817129
Tasks 220 ATTN
MOVE
32226
MOVE
53643
MOVE
006478
MOVE
51014
Doors 14 AVAIL
D01
READY
D05
READY
D06
EMPTY
D08
LOADING
D09
LOADING
D12
READY
Customer Feedback LIVE
"I lost my paperwork at the shipper... It was easy and it saved my butt.
SURVEY #869 · PRIMO → WALMART
Empty Trailers · SCAC
MEIJ19
HIRS13
HOSD8
RWXD6
BOL Awaiting Sig 16 OVERDUE
T924046250691h
T922936752687h
T922995080682h
T924048976589h
YardFlow ·flowYMS 10 / 14

Network Effect

Every facility tightens the bands for every other facility.

PWN-04PWN-12PWN-21PWN-33PWN-48PWN-51PWN-67PWN-72PWN-88PWN-91PWN-95PWN-99PWN-103PWN-108PWN-114PWN-119
Sites Live
20+
Each at least $1M+ more profitable Year 1
Under Deployment
200+
In active multi-year network rollout
Variance Reduction
63%
Year 1 floor at Primo Water (Deep Model)
Network Compounding
3y
Per-site savings stack as deployment grows
YardFlow ·Yard Network System 11 / 14

Customer Voice · Survey #869 · Primo Brands → Walmart

"I lost my paperwork at the shipper. I got in trouble, was losing my load. Then I went back through and found this shipping manifest, downloaded it, and gave it to Walmart the receiver. My company called me missing a page so I just sent them right off my phone. It was easy and it saved my butt.

Anonymous driver · Phone 509-386-0785 · Self-reported via in-product feedback
YardFlow ·Customer Voice 12 / 14

Network-scale ROI · 50 FACILITIES MODELED · 20+ VALIDATED LIVE

Yard automation,
at network scale.

$87.4M/yr
Total network value
Across 50 facilities · Primo actuals modeled out · floor not ceiling
11.5×
More value than legacy YMS
Every facility · not just the big 25
7.5 mo
Hard-savings payback
3.5 mo when production capacity is counted
165% Year 1 ROI
$1.06M Net Year 1 gain · per site
$292K/mo Cost of inaction
63% Variance reduction · Primo Y1 floor
YardFlow ·Results 13 / 14

Next Step

Ready to standardize?

We are not asking for a pilot. We are asking for a conversation. A 30-minute call, we show you what we found on your network, you tell us where it fits.

1
Network Audit
30 min · Map your facilities to archetypes, surface variance drivers.
2
Rollout Plan
Deployment sequence, timeline, and which sites go first based on payback.
3
Board-Ready ROI
Exportable PDF with your facility assumptions for finance review.
Book the 30-minute audit → Run the ROI Calculator
YardFlow ·by FreightRoll · Industrial Fluidity 14 / 14