GXO Logistics · 30 US sites, mapped from satellite
The Yard Network System, by FreightRoll.
You put an autonomous truck inside the building. Outside the door is the yard nobody automated. YardFlow standardizes it.
In March you put your first AI-driven autonomous truck on the floor in France, powered by KION and NVIDIA, and your CEO took it to GTC. Inside the building you are years ahead. Outside the door is the yard that same wave of automation never reached, the gate-to-dock handoff a driver still walks on foot. That gap 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. It puts every site on one standard so trucks move through faster, the way your autonomous trucks move freight through faster inside. Primo Brands committed all ~260 of its sites to it. At one plant, side by side on the same gate and the same trucks, drop and hook turn time went from 48 minutes to 24, and that protocol now runs across all 24 live sites. Those sites shipped about 5% more volume than comparable sites without it, on the same dock-office headcount. Faster yards are how you keep the contract and become the shipper carriers pick first.
- 20
- US sites mapped from satellite
- 2,282
- dock doors across the 30 audited sites
- 48 to 24 min
- trailer turn time, measured at Primo
- The gapYour robots run the building. 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 automated the building. The yard your contract runs through is still manual.
Every yard you run does it its own way, so the network drifts.
At Conair Hagerstown, 378 dock doors in one building feed off a single truck gate sequenced by radio and clipboard. 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. The autonomous truck you just put on the floor never sees that queue.
Why now
You are taking AI to the warehouse floor. The yard your contract runs through is the next place it has to go.
You just piloted an autonomous truck and put your CEO on the GTC stage to say it.
The yard outside that same door 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. GXO 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. GXO runs more yards than any pure-play operator, 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 GXO's own audit, not a generic benchmark. We mapped 30 of your US sites from satellite. Here is what the manual handoffs cost today, and where the standard lands first.
- 16 of 20
- Run drop yardswhere the 48 to 24 minute drop-and-hook win lands
- 8 of 20
- Gated with a guard or boothflowGATE automates the check-in step the booth does by hand
- 16 of 20
- Long entry drives where queues buildpre-arrival check-in keeps the queue off the road
See all 20 sitesOpen the audit →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 on your network, 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.
