YardFlow by FreightRoll · 2026
The First
Yard Network System
A standardized operating protocol — not a YMS — that made each of over 20 sites at least $1M+ more profitable. Now rolling out to over 200 more.
The YardFlow Difference
11.5× more value
than legacy YMS.
Legacy YMS is built for the largest 25 sites. YardFlow deploys in 30 minutes at a fraction of the cost — making yard automation accessible to every facility in your network.
Live in production · PRIMO BRANDS · 20+ SITES
Operating leverage,
proven at scale.
Primo Brands retired their legacy YMS (PINC) and standardized on the YardFlow protocol across their North American network — then used that consolidation to absorb additional shipping volume while keeping dock-office headcount flat. One platform, one source of truth, lower licensing costs.
"Your software has enabled us to take on additional volume while remaining headcount neutral in the dock office. That was an integral part of our strategy — and has been proven."
Primo Brands · Operations leadership · in-product feedback
The way it works today
95% of North American yards
still run on paper.
Today · The Paper Process
Three-part NCR forms. Yellow stickies. Radio chatter. Driver hands over their DL at the guard shack and waits. Every facility has its own variant. No timestamp survives the shift.
Tomorrow · One Protocol
Same driver journey at every facility. Every move timestamped. Chain of custody cryptographically signed. Same data, same standard, in every yard you operate.
Ground Source Truth
Same flow.
Every yard.
The protocol is the product. Six modules, one driver journey, network-wide control. Each facility you add tightens variance bands for every other facility in the network.
The Protocol
Six modules. One driver journey.
- Self-service kiosk fallback
- SMS dock + seal dispatch
- Machine-verified gate exit
- Phone or kiosk scan
- Immutable chain of custody
- SMS-deliverable signed copies
- Move queue + dispatch
- OCR + brand-match per frame
- No extra driver action
- Live yard topology
- Exception detection
- Replay any frame, any time
- Action recommendations by state
- Exception routing + escalation
- Protocol optimization over time
- Network-wide alerting
- Scenario simulation
- Compounding network ROI
App-free · web.FreightRoll.com
flowDRIVER
The driver scans a QR. The rest happens for them.
Posted FreightRoll placard at the gate. Driver opens their phone camera, taps the link, lands at web.FreightRoll.com. Auto-recognized identity, auto-populated shipment.
Drop-rules + dock # + seal # arrive over native SMS — the moments that must not miss the driver get pushed to where they already check reflexively.
Final step: MACHINE VERIFIED QR opens the gate. No paperwork, no clipboard, no guard radio.
Passive RTLS · No new hardware lift
flowTWIN
The yard updates itself while the spotter does their job.
A camera mounted on the yard-spotter vehicle streams to FreightRoll's vision engine. Every trailer the spotter passes gets OCR'd, brand-matched, and reconciled to its yard spot — in real time, on the satellite POV.
No new RTLS infrastructure. No transponders. No bolt-on hardware. The yard truck the customer already pays for becomes the RTLS sensor.
"When drivers move trailers around, we passively recognize what they pass and update the system."
— Jake Koppinger · CEO, FreightRoll
Auto exit detection · Fires YMS update
flowGATE
One camera. Zero human action. Chain-of-custody complete.
A single camera at the gate. OCR locks the trailer ID in 3 frames. The system reconciles to its YMS spot, fires the departure event, and clears the dock card.
Driver doesn't tap anything. Guard doesn't radio anyone. Spot 17 just turns available the moment the truck crosses the line.
State machine: SCANNING → SETTLED → EXITING → COMPLETE — each state cryptographically timestamped, defensible from day one.
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What the ops lead actually uses
The operator console
Six attention widgets. One screen. Auto-refreshing every 30 seconds.
Drivers needing attention. Tasks needing attention. Doors needing attention. BOLs awaiting signature. Plus driver messages and empty trailers by SCAC.
Everything an ops lead used to track on a whiteboard — surfaced live, ranked by what's about to breach SLA.
Side nav drills into flowTWIN, flowGATE, dock management, driver comms, the network map. 13 views, one canvas.
Network Effect
Every facility tightens the bands for every other facility.
Customer Voice · Survey #869 · Primo Brands → Walmart
"I lost my paperwork at the shipper. I got in trouble — was losing my load. Then I went back through and found this shipping manifest, downloaded it, and gave it to Walmart the receiver. My company called me missing a page so I just sent them right off my phone. It was easy and it saved my butt.
Network-scale ROI · 50 FACILITIES MODELED · 20+ VALIDATED LIVE
Yard automation,
at network scale.
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