Lights-Out Yard Episode 7: "Confessions of a Yard Veteran: Lights-Out, One Go-Live at a Time"

Everybody wants the autonomous yard. Almost nobody can tell you what has to happen on Tuesday to get there. The gap between the dream and the gatehouse is where most yard automation quietly stalls, and it does not stall on technology. It stalls on process nobody ever wrote down.

In this episode, join Terminal CMO Josh Kivenko and special guest Travis Derocha, VP of Implementation at Terminal, who has run yard implementations from all sides: carrier, shipper, and tech vendor. He does not think the Lights-Out Yard arrives as a product launch. He thinks it arrives one decision at a time, as a site earns the right to hand off work it used to run by radio. Travis maps what that path looks like from inside a go-live: which decisions a yard can safely automate in the first ninety days, which ones still need a human in the loop, what has to be true at the gate before anything downstream holds up, and why the hardest part is never the technology.