01Partner
Book
Carrier books a slot with the facts you need before arrival.
How it works
One visit lifecycle on the yard management system.
Carriers see a simple partner flow. The yard keeps the full picture — booking rules, gate capture, yard assignment, AI-assisted exception checks, freight, automated closeout, and audit-ready history on the connected yard platform.
02Rules
Check
Yard rules flag missing documents or schedule risk early.
03Gate
Gate
Guard captures driver, trailer, lane, and freight in one place.
04Yard
Move
Yard stages the truck and assigns a door — everyone sees it.
05Done
Close
Printouts, gate-out, and history close on the same update.
Carrier view
Book once. Follow the full story.
After booking a slot, partners see whether the yard accepted the request, when the truck arrived, when it left, and when something went wrong.
Yard view
Run the yard from one place.
Gate and yard staff update the visit as work happens — times, door, freight lines, and alerts stay in sync for everyone who needs them.
Shared status
No more guessing where the truck is.
Each step sends a real-time update on the visit lifecycle. The yard, gate, warehouse, and carrier read the same orchestrated timeline on the connected yard platform.
At each step, everyone sees the same update:
- RequestCarrier books; the yard knows what is coming
Slot, carrier, trailer, PO, and required documents land in the appointment queue before the gate is surprised.
Auto confirmReview first - GateGate-in captured once
Driver, trailer, lane, freight, and uploads go in once — not a separate guard log the warehouse never sees.
- Yard & dockStaging, door, and dwell on the map
Spot assignment, door B08, and how long the truck has waited — visible to yard jockeys and dock teams on the same live update.
- PartnerCarrier sees the same status
Booked, at gate, staged, at door, and gate-out — without calling the yard for every update.
Industry pressure
Waiting at the yard is expensive — and well measured.
These numbers are from transportation and supply chain research — not customer results from us. They explain why gate, yard, dock, and closeout need to stay in sync.
39.3%Stops where drivers reported detention
In 2023, drivers said they waited more than two hours beyond schedule on 39.3% of stops (ATRI, using 2023 detention data).
When gate-in, staging, and door time stay in sync, yards and carriers argue from facts — not from different spreadsheets.
ATRI, Costs and Consequences of Truck Driver Detention, 2024135M+Hours lost to detention (for-hire trucking)
For-hire trucking lost more than 135 million driver hours to detention in 2023.
Most of that waiting happens between the gate, the staging lot, and the door — often with no shared view.
ATRI, 2024$15BEstimated annual detention cost
ATRI estimates $11.5B in lost productivity and $3.6B in direct costs tied to detention in 2023.
Invoices get disputed when nobody agrees what happened on site — gate time, door, dwell, and documents.
ATRI, 20246.2%Higher crash risk when dwell rises
U.S. DOT OIG cited research estimating a 6.2% higher expected crash rate when average dwell rises 15 minutes.
Pressure at the gate and dock does not stay inside the yard — it follows drivers back on the road.
U.S. DOT Office of Inspector General, 2018On a busy yard, this is what breaks
- Carrier calls asking “where’s my truck?”Live status everyone sees — gate, staging, door, gate-out.
- Guard log ≠ what the warehouse seesSame gate-in time, lane, and trailer ID for yard and dock teams.
- Trailer sits in staging — nobody owns the waitStaging zone and dwell aging visible before detention.
- Door B08 on paper, truck at another bayDoor assignment and yard map presence on the same live update.
- ERP updated after the truck leftPrintouts, attachments, and ERP events go out at gate-out.
Gartner & data quality
Why data quality shows up at the gate
Gartner has reported that poor data quality undermines supply chain decisions and predictive tools — and that many yards remain a visibility gap between the warehouse and the road.
The yard is often a “black hole” where companies lack visibility to activities, inventory, and equipment.
Gartner, Market Guide for Yard Management (summarized in industry publications)
$12.9MAverage annual cost of poor data quality per organization (Gartner, 2020 enterprise survey).
Wrong gate time, door, freight line, or departure means partners and ERP get the wrong story.
We do not invent these savings. When gate times, door, dwell, and documents stay connected, yards and carriers act before delay turns into disputes and phone calls.
Industry research — not customer results from FlodockSources: ATRI (2024, 2023 data), U.S. DOT OIG (2018), Gartner (2020; Market Guide for Yard Management)