Prepared for SalSon Logistics · 13 US sites audited · one network standard
The Yard Network System, by FreightRoll.
Your yards are the gap in your supply-chain stack. YardFlow fills it.
You move the box. Since 1960 you have pulled containers off the Port of New York and New Jersey, transloaded them, and put product on a shelf inside 48 hours. The one place that flow still goes dark is the yard. With over 1,200 chassis and 100 acres of port parking, our read is that finding the next container and matching it to a chassis is manual today.
YardFlow is the Yard Network System, the software layer between your TMS and your WMS. It makes every box and chassis legible at every site, so the next move dispatches itself. At Primo, drop-and-hook turns fell from 48 minutes to 24, on flat headcount.
- 48 to 24 min
- drop-and-hook turn, measured at Primo
- 10
- US sites audited from satellite
- Flat headcount
- no capex, no new hires
- The gapYour TMS runs the road, your WMS runs the building, nothing runs the chassis yards.
- What it doesEZ-Pass at the gate, air-traffic control for chassis and boxes. The next move dispatches itself.
- The proofPrimo: turns cut 48 to 24 min on flat headcount, 100% of the network committed, the first ever.
- The payoffFaster turns, less detention, more boxes through the same gates. No capex.
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
The chassis yard is the last blind spot, run site by site on radios.
The 888 Doremus flagship turns roughly 2,000 containers a week on a 55-acre campus.
The box your next load needs is somewhere in the rows, and our read is that matching it to a chassis is manual. Across the 13 sites we mapped, you park 3,150 trailers and containers. None of those moves run on live data. A radio call and a clipboard are all that stand between a box and its 48-hour clock.
Why now
The freight cycle is turning. The yards that waste a driver day will lose the carriers and the contracts.
Every site you run is a customer promise you have to keep.
You win the next account on cost per box and on how fast a truck clears your gate. The chassis yard is the part of that promise nobody standardized. 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 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 chassis a driver hunts down is added cost on a rate you bid thin. When trucks cost this much, that cost counts double. Standardize the yard and you turn more boxes through the same gates, 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
One standard between your TMS and your WMS, on every yard the network 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. SalSon would be the first port-drayage 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. A network standard across your port terminals 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. Your spotters and gates keep working.
- Keep your YMSRun alongside any local YMS you have. Switch only if and when you decide to.
- 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 SalSon's own audit, not a generic benchmark. We mapped 13 of your US sites from satellite. Here is what the manual handoffs cost today, and where the standard lands first.
- 10 of 10
- Run drop yardswhere the 48 to 24 minute drop-and-hook win lands
- 6 of 10
- Gated with a guard or boothflowGATE automates the check-in step the booth does by hand
- 8 of 10
- Long entry drives where queues buildpre-arrival check-in keeps the queue off the road
See all 10 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.
