NFI Industries, audited.
14 of ~300 facilities (US scope)1,673 dock doors3,709 trailer spots0 rail-served
We core-sampled 14 of ~300 facilities, We mapped 14 of NFI's 300+ North American facilities, its largest and most yard-intensive dedicated DCs, port-logistics terminals, and import warehouses.
Network size: https://www.nfiindustries.com/about-nfi/news/nfi-named-a-2020-top-100-3pl-provider-by-inbound-logistics/ (2020)
Public audit. Not affiliated with NFI Industries. Data from satellite imagery + public records.
We audited NFI Industries’s yards from satellite.
Click any site for its gate, docks, and drop yards. No badge, no NDA, just what a driver sees.
NFI Industries’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.
NFI Distribution Center Moreno Valley CA
No guard. Driver finds the call box, hits the buzzer, waits for someone inside to respond.
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 14 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 NFI Industries’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.
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Only 10 of NFI's 14 audited yards sit behind a truck gate, and 4 run a staffed booth. The rest sit open to the road, so trailers roll in unchecked.
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The 14 yards hold 1,673 dock doors and room for about 3,709 trailers, and not one is rail-served. Every load moves by truck.
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The 14 sites span five yard types, from Savannah port logistics to Inland Empire DCs and Lehigh Valley cross-docks, each with its own gate routine.
Turn what you saw into a number for finance
This audit is the evidence. The model is the math. Open the calculator seeded with NFI Industries’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/nfi 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.
