NFI Industries · 16 of 300+ yards, mapped from satellite
The Yard Network System, by FreightRoll.
Your yards are the gap in your supply-chain stack. YardFlow fills it.
You have said the goal is a fully autonomous yard. Check the driver in, drop the trailer, pick the next one, route the driver, and validate the load on the way out, with no one in the loop. We want that for you too.
Here is the part nobody says out loud. A yard cannot run itself while a human still works the gate, the lot, and the rows. You cannot automate what the system cannot see. YardFlow is the Yard Network System, the software bridge between your TMS and your WMS. It makes every trailer legible first, which is the foundation the autonomous yard is built on. At Primo, drop-and-hook turns fell from 48 minutes to 24.
- The gapYour TMS runs the road, your WMS runs the building, nothing runs the yards.
- The bridgeYardFlow is the Yard Network System between the two, on one standard across all 300 sites.
- The foundationAutonomy needs eyes and memory. flowGATE sees the trucks, the console remembers every trailer.
- The proofPrimo: turns 48 to 24 min, first ever to commit ~260 sites. Your Allentown yard already runs our BOL.
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.
Using the results Primo measured, we modeled the prize across all 300 NFI yards.
Proven at Primo, modeled across your 300 yards
The problem
The autonomous yard has to see every trailer before it can move one.
You run about 300 yards on roughly 70 million square feet, and you have told us most are still manual.
Six of the 16 we mapped sit open to the road, with no gate at all. A spotter cannot self-drive what the system cannot see.
Why now
You set the goal. The substrate has to come first.
A customer adds ten percent of volume and it ships nothing if the yard cannot turn ten percent more trucks.
The yards you run are the cap on what your customers can move. The goal is a yard that checks in, drops, picks, routes, and validates on its own. That future is real, and it is close. It does not arrive as one magic spotter. It arrives when every trailer, gate, and move is already digital, so a machine can act on it. The freight cycle adds urgency. Pricing power is swinging back to carriers, and the yards that burn a driver's day will pay for it in spot rates. Build the digital yard now and you cut that cost today while you lay the track autonomy runs on tomorrow.
The Yard Network System
One standard between your TMS and your WMS, on every yard NFI runs.
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. You already run a piece of 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. NFI already runs our digital BOL at the Allentown yard you operate for Primo, so you have seen the lightest layer work. The rest of the stack is what rolls next.
“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 Manhattan WMS and your TMS 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. Your spotters and gates keep working.
- Keep your YMSRun alongside PINC, Kaleris, or any local YMS. Switch only if and when you decide to.
- ReadsYour TMS appointments, over standard API or EDI.
- WritesGate and turn events back to your Manhattan WMS, so dock and inventory stay current.
- IT lift
Your own audit
This is NFI's own audit, not a generic benchmark. We mapped 16 of your largest yards from satellite. Here is what the manual handoffs cost today, and where the standard lands first.
- 14 of 14
- Run drop yardswhere the 48 to 24 minute drop-and-hook win lands
- 10 of 14
- Gated, only 4 staffedflowGATE automates the check-in step the booth does by hand
- 14 of 14
- Long entry drives where queues buildpre-arrival check-in keeps the queue off the road
See all 14 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.
