Daimler Truck North America, audited.
16 of ~19 facilities (NA scope)562 dock doors1,944 trailer spots6 rail-served
We core-sampled 16 of ~19 plants, DTNA's locations page lists 19 North American truck/bus plants and parts distribution centers; we satellite-audited 16 of them.
Network size: https://northamerica.daimlertruck.com/company/locations (2026-06-19)
Public audit. Not affiliated with Daimler Truck North America. Data from satellite imagery + public records.
We audited Daimler Truck North America’s yards from satellite.
Click any site for its gate, docks, and drop yards. No badge, no NDA, just what a driver sees.
Daimler Truck North America’s stack is connected. The yards never were.
Your TMS runs the road. Your WMS runs the building. The yards are the tier between them, and they were never on the network.
Every truck gets re-keyed, re-queued, and re-found at each step. The lost time lives between the steps, which is why no single tool ever fixed it. The audit below is that gap, measured on your real yards.
A real audited site, played gate→dock→exit on the true yard geometry. Switch sites with the picker.
Memphis Parts Distribution Center - Memphis TN
Driver rolls past the gate, looks for instructions on where to drop.
Movement durations are honest floors set by yard geometry; the uplift lands on the wait fields (queue + dispatch + secondary checkpoints). “Today” timings reflect the radios-and-clipboards world; “With YardFlow” reflects the protocol acting end-to-end. We may be wrong about parts of this, your actual numbers will tell us where.
What the handoffs cost across your network, and what removing them is worth
Read from satellite + Street View across all 16 facilities. At a comparable network, Primo Brands cut drop-and-hook turns from ~48 to ~24 min. Set your real volumes and margins in the calculator to put a number on it.
What surprised us reading Daimler Truck North America’s network
Three patterns held across the sites we sampled. None of them show up on a facility list. All of them change how the yard runs.
- 01
Cleveland NC truck manufacturing is 200 acres. Daimler builds Freightliners here.
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6 of 16 audited sites are rail-served. Heavy truck inbound runs on railcars.
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1,944 trailer spots across 16 audited sites. Finished trucks stage drive-away, not van-load.
Turn what you saw into a number for finance
This audit is the evidence. The model is the math. Open the calculator seeded with Daimler Truck North America’s audited yards, set your real volumes and margins, and it sizes the opportunity to the dollar.
This deep-dive is the evidence behind the /for/daimler-truck-north-america memo.
Are these your yards?
Tell us where we got it wrong, or see what 15 minutes of orchestration looks like on your worst site.
We are not asking for a pilot. We are asking for a conversation.
A 30-minute call, direct with Casey. We show you what we found across your yards, you tell us straight where it fits and where it does not. If the call goes well, we talk pilot. If not, you keep the analysis.
None of these times work? Email me at casey@freightroll.com or call or text me at 410-236-7434, and we’ll find one.
Casey Larkin, YardFlow. Jake, our founder, joins when it helps.
