Yard automation that scales
One system for every person
who touches a trailer.
YardFlow is not just a YMS. It is one standard operating protocol for every yard. Same driver journey, same steps, same proof, at every facility.
The protocol is the product.
One trailer · five seats · one standard
EZ-Pass at the gate, air-traffic control for the trailers.
See it from each seat
The same yard, switched between the driver, the spotter, ops, and machine vision.
The five roles, one standard
Role 01flowDRIVER
Stop paying people to talk to truck drivers.
It is 2026. Text them. It is faster. No app to download, no guard shack, no clipboard, no training: the driver checks in from the cab and gets routed wherever they need to go, a door or a drop spot. Handles all scenarios. Gate or no gate.
Trucks get in without waiting in line.
- Nothing to download; carriers and drivers onboard themselves
- The camera reads the truck and whatever it pulls on arrival: a trailer, or a chassis with or without a container
- Routed to the assigned door in one message
- SCANPlate ABC-1182
- VERIFIEDChassis 53291
- ROUTEDDoor D7
no app · no guard · 0:42 at gate
Role 02flowVISION
Know where every trailer is. Without the pucks.
Trailer tracking the old way is a tag on every trailer and a reader on every post: cumbersome, expensive, and still wrong. Ours is passive. A camera in the spotter cab maps the yards from the moves the spotter already makes, with a fraction of the hardware and deployment time, and better accuracy.
The yards always know where every trailer is.
- A live yard map built passively from real moves
- No tags, no readers, no manual counts
- More accurate than RFID, with a fraction of the hardware
Role 03flowYMS
Every yard needs a brain.
Not the top quartile. Every one. The right door is assigned and the DC watches every dock at once, on screens that stay live instead of minutes behind. Easy to learn, and built to pay for itself at low-volume yards too.
The dock is ready before the truck parks.
- Every door's live state on one screen, and it stays fresh
- The right door assigned the moment a truck checks in
- Exceptions surface first, before they breach
D1
loading
D2
staged
D3
open
D4
loading
D5
breach
D6
staged
1 breach risk surfaced first
Role 04flowBOL
Paper is expensive. Chasing it is worse.
Three copies of a BOL is embarrassing and costly, and the cost lands later, when a billing dispute sends someone back to the warehouse to find it. The BOL is captured and signed in the driver flow, timestamped, with a chain of custody that holds up. Digital from the gate to the dock.
Signed, timestamped, and it holds up.
- BOL captured and signed inside the driver flow
- A digital chain of custody, timestamped
- Works with the BOLs and the WMS you already have
- Gate in08:14:22
- Door D708:31:05
- BOL stamped09:02:47
digital · timestamped · holds up
How it works
One engine under all five roles
flowGATE
Cameras read the truck and whatever it pulls: a trailer, or a chassis, bare or carrying a container. Check-in and exit happen on their own.
flowVISION
Computer vision on the spotter truck builds a live digital twin of the yards. No tags on the trailers.
flowAI
An agent dispatches the move, alerts the driver, and surfaces the exception first.
EZ-Pass at the gate, air-traffic control for the trailers.
Today
- Every yard does it its own way
- Radios, clipboards, and a guard shack
- Nobody knows where the trailer is
- Detention starts at hour two
On the standard
- One standard at every yard
- EZ-Pass at the gate, no clipboard
- The live twin always knows
- Production capacity you could not see
Role 05flowNETWORK
Capacity you never knew you had.
Plants rarely run out of machines. They run out of trailers at the door. Inefficient yards cap what every plant can ship, and the cap is invisible until it lifts: about 5 percent more volume on flat headcount, measured, with no new line and no new people. Every yard you run on one screen, one standard, so a fix at one yard lands at all of them.
Site
Local proof
Adoption
Network benchmarks
Adoption
Predictive patterns
Network
Cross-site learning
The receipt
Proven in production, not in a deck
“Your software enabled us to take on additional volume while remaining headcount neutral in the dock office.”
Business Solutions Manager, Inventory to Deliver, Primo Brands
Integrations
Fit Into Enterprise Reality
Partial data. Mixed systems. Operational nuance. We integrate around the workflow, not the other way around.
Connectivity Surface
Integration Path
Start fast, scale deliberately
Pilot
Minimal Integration
Manual appointment entry. File upload for trailer inventory. No TMS/WMS dependency required.
Wave 1
Core Integration
Appointment sync from TMS. Event webhooks to WMS. Scheduled data exports to BI.
Scale
Full Integration
Real-time bidirectional sync. SSO/SCIM. Network-level visibility. Enterprise reporting.
Pick a time and you are on the calendar.
Thirty minutes, direct with Casey Larkin. Pick an open time below and you are booked.
None of these times work? Email me at casey@yardflow.ai or call or text me at 410-236-7434, and we’ll find one.
Casey Larkin, YardFlow. Jake Koppinger, our founder, joins when it helps.