CJ Logistics America · 28 US sites, mapped from satellite
The Yard Network System, by FreightRoll.
You showed AGVs and autonomous forklifts at MODEX. The automation stops at the dock door. YardFlow is the network layer that carries it into the yard.
At MODEX 2026 you showed a NextGen AI operating system, AGVs, and autonomous forklifts, and the parent is expanding robotics across major centers this year. Inside the building you are sharp. The automation you demoed stops at the dock door, and the yard beyond it is the one stretch nobody put on a standard. Our read is that the gap there is detention you pay and turns a carrier counts against you.
YardFlow is the Yard Network System, the software layer between your TMS and your WMS. The automation stops at the dock door, and the yard is the one part of the operation nobody put on a standard. Primo Brands has implemented the driver journey system wide, cut trailer turn times by 50%, and shipped about 5% more volume on the same dock-office headcount. Faster yards are how you keep the contract and become the shipper carriers pick first. The audit shows where the same gain sits in your network.
- 26
- US sites mapped from satellite
- 2,099
- dock doors across the 28 audited sites
- 48 to 24 min
- trailer turn time, measured at Primo
- The gapYou run cross-dock tight inside. Nothing runs the yards your contracts live in.
- What we doOne digital standard for every site. EZ-Pass at the gate, air-traffic control for the trailers.
- The proofPrimo cut turns 48 to 24 min and was the first to commit 100% of its network to one standard.
- The payoffFaster turns, less detention, fewer escapes. Win the contract and become shipper-of-choice for carriers.
Already live at scale · the Primo Brands network
The Yard Network System runs the yards behind these household brands. Live today, rolling to 100% of the network.
The problem
You run cross-dock tight inside the building. The yard your contract runs through is still manual.
The AGVs you showed at MODEX move pallets on a standard inside the building.
Every yard outside still does it its own way, and that drift is the cost. At Champaign IL, 110 dock doors set the pace for a shipper who counts every minute. A driver who cannot find a door walks into the office to ask. The next truck idles at the gate, and our read is that the detention clock is running. Across the 28 sites we mapped, 22 still hide their freight in drop yards a radio call can barely track.
Why now
You are expanding robotics across major centers this year. The yard is the last part of the operation nobody put on a standard.
Your 2026 plan puts more robots and AI on the floor inside the building.
That is the right move, and it makes the gap outside the dock door louder. The yard is the part of the promise nobody standardized. Every site you run is a contract you have to keep. You win the next one on cost per unit and on how fast a truck gets through your gate. For the first time in four years, pricing power is swinging to carriers as capacity tightens. The next spot market punishes operators whose yards burn a driver's afternoon. Detention starts at hour two and runs $50 to $100 an hour, and carriers now pick their shippers. Every printed gate slip, every forced check-in, every trailer a driver hunts down is added cost on a contract you bid thin. When trucks cost this much, that cost counts double. Standardize the yard and you turn more trucks through the same doors, on the same headcount. That is margin you keep and a renewal you win. A network standard is a service your competitors cannot match site by site.
The Yard Network System
A new layer of your stack, between the TMS and the WMS.
Every yard runs the same jobs, and the same people run them. The Yard Network System gives each of them one standard across every site. The driver checks in from their phone with flowDRIVER. The spotter moves the trailer while a cab camera maps the yard with flowTWIN. The dock coordinator assigns the door from flowYMS. The dock office signs the BOL with flowBOL. The executive watches every yard on flowNETWORK. Under all of it, machine vision reads the truck at the gate and an agent dispatches the next move. Think EZ-Pass at the gate and air-traffic control for your trailers.
The proof · already at scale
No company had ever put its whole yard network on one system. Primo just did. CJ Logistics America would be the first contract-logistics network to take it.
The point is not faster trucks. It is realized production capacity: 5% more volume out the door on the same headcount, capacity those plants could not ship before.
Primo started with one layer: the driver journey. Text the truck instead of checking it in. Paper out of the gate. No more driver-to-dock-office handoff. Across the 24 sites where it went live, those yards shipped about 5% more volume than the sites without it, on the same dock-office headcount. That alone is why Primo committed all ~260 sites to the full Yard Network System, the first national shipper to standardize every yard on one protocol. The YMS is rolling now. Live at 10 plants, every production site by the end of Q3. The 5% came from the lightest touch. The rest is still ahead. CJ runs cross-dock for hundreds of shippers, so one standard across the network is a service no competitor can match site by site.
“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.”
Result measured on the driver-journey layer, before the YMS rollout. Primo is live at 10 plants today, every production site by the end of Q3.
What it touches
A new layer, not a new migration.
YardFlow runs in the yard and talks to the systems you already have. Your TMS and WMS stay the systems of record. Nobody is ripping anything out.
Built for enterprise infosec review. We connect over your standard API or EDI and scope to yard operations, not your ERP of record. Full integration and security review happen in the audit.
- In the yardflowDRIVER (driver app, no install) and flowGATE (camera gate) run on YardFlow. Nothing changes on the warehouse floor.
- ReadsYour TMS appointments, over standard API or EDI.
- WritesGate and turn events back to your WMS, so dock and inventory stay current.
- IT liftOne connection per system. No rip-and-replace, no platform migration.
Your own audit
This is CJ Logistics America's own audit, not a generic benchmark. We mapped 28 of your US sites from satellite. Here is what the manual handoffs cost today, and where the standard lands first.
- 21 of 26
- Run drop yardswhere the 48 to 24 minute drop-and-hook win lands
- 16 of 26
- Gated with a guard or boothflowGATE automates the check-in step the booth does by hand
- 23 of 26
- Long entry drives where queues buildpre-arrival check-in keeps the queue off the road
See all 26 sitesOpen the audit →We are not asking for a pilot. We are asking for a conversation.
A 30-minute call, direct with Casey. We will not tell you which site to start at. We have only seen your yards from orbit. You run them, so you already know which one goes first. We show you what we found, you tell us straight where it fits. 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.
