Tractor Supply Company, audited.
10 facilities audited1,119 dock doors2,390 trailer spots1 rail-served
We core-sampled 10 of ~10 DCs, all 10 operating distribution centers, from the 900,000 square foot Navarre flagship to the newest Maumelle AR DC
Network size: Tractor Supply FY2025 Form 10-K, Item 2 Properties (SEC, filed 2026-02-19) (2025-12-27)
Public audit. Not affiliated with Tractor Supply Company. Data from satellite imagery + public records.
We audited Tractor Supply Company’s yards from satellite.
Click any site for its gate, docks, and drop yards. No badge, no NDA, just what a driver sees.
Tractor Supply Company’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.
Tractor Supply Distribution Center Franklin KY
Truck queues at the gate. Guard checks paper BOL, runs the plate, types data into a screen, prints a gate pass.
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 10 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 Tractor Supply Company’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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Nine of Tractor Supply's 10 DCs sit behind a truck gate and 7 run a staffed booth. That is tighter yard control than most grocers we have mapped.
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All 10 DCs sit on rural, open-field sites, where trailers stage outside the fence line before a single gate. The check-in pinch is the choke point.
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The network holds 1,119 dock doors and about 2,390 trailer spots across 10 sites, and only one touches rail. Nearly everything moves by truck.
Turn what you saw into a number for finance
This audit is the evidence. The model is the math. Open the calculator seeded with Tractor Supply Company’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/tractor-supply 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.