Maintenance and fueling depots often struggle with delayed service that extends asset downtime, underutilized mechanics due to poor staging and scheduling, fueling bottlenecks that back up the yard and slow dispatch, and hidden costs from missed service windows and lost operational days. These challenges can significantly impact fleet productivity and operational costs.
Delayed services extend asset downtime, meaning trucks and trailers spend more time idle and less time generating revenue. This can lead to operational bottlenecks and reduced fleet availability.
Poor staging and scheduling can result in mechanics waiting for vehicles or parts, leading to wasted labor and inefficiency. Optimizing mechanic productivity ensures skilled labor is used effectively and reduces unnecessary downtime.
Fueling bottlenecks can back up the yard, slow dispatch, and delay vehicles from returning to service. This impacts overall fleet uptime and can cause missed delivery windows.
Hidden costs include missed service windows, lost operational days, increased labor expenses, and higher fuel consumption. These costs can erode profitability and reduce overall operational efficiency.
Terminal YOS™ digitizes, automates, and optimizes every move in the depot—from arrival at the gate to bay assignment and fueling, through service completion and redeployment. It serves as the single source of truth, eliminating chaos and guesswork, and gives complete control over queues, mechanic productivity, and fleet availability.
Gate Automation uses AI computer vision to automate all material inbound and outbound movements through an unmanned gate. It integrates with TMS and WMS to streamline gate operations and reduce wait times, resulting in up to an 85% reduction in gate processing time.
Terminal YOS™ accelerates vehicle flow from gate to service bay and back on the road, minimizing downtime. This ensures that revenue-generating assets stay productive instead of sitting idle, providing fleet directors and operations leaders with greater assurance of asset utilization.
By streamlining staging, Terminal YOS™ ensures vehicles arrive at the right bay with the right parts on hand. This reduces wasted wrench time and enables better use of skilled labor, improving overall maintenance efficiency.
Terminal YOS™ provides real-time visibility into every vehicle’s service status and queue position. Service coordinators and schedulers can plan proactively, reduce surprises, and ensure critical assets are prioritized for maintenance and fueling.
Terminal YOS™ tracks dwell times, fueling throughput, and service efficiency in detail, turning the depot into a predictable cost center. This enables quantification of savings from reduced downtime and smarter labor allocation, supporting a strong ROI case.
Continuous Improvement Reporting provides insights into dwell time, average service duration, fueling throughput, and labor efficiency. This enables depots to monitor and improve operational performance over time, with gate check-in times as low as under 2 minutes.
Terminal YOS™ integrates with Transportation Management Systems (TMS) and Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) to streamline gate operations, automate workflows, and ensure seamless data flow across the depot.
Depots using Terminal YOS™ can achieve up to a 50% increase in data accuracy, 50% improvement in throughput, 85% reduction in gate processing times, and 90% reduction in asset search times. Customers typically see measurable ROI within 5 months of deployment.
The initial core phase of Terminal YOS™ can be deployed in just 5 days, making it one of the fastest solutions in the market. The system is cloud-ready and requires minimal IT lift, allowing for rapid onboarding and minimal disruption to operations.
Customers typically achieve a 4x+ return on investment (ROI) with zero hidden costs, thanks to the platform's AI tooling and modern architecture. Measurable returns are often realized within 5 months of deployment.
Terminal YOS™ minimizes costs by reducing driver detention fees, fuel consumption, and labor expenses. It also helps depots avoid hidden costs from missed service windows and lost operational days, making operations more predictable and cost-effective.
By optimizing operations and minimizing truck idling, Terminal YOS™ reduces emissions and supports sustainability goals, helping depots meet corporate social responsibility targets.
Terminal YOS™ is SOC 2 Type II compliant, provides end-to-end data encryption, and adheres to GDPR principles for data transfer. The platform is cloud-based, minimizing vulnerabilities and ensuring centralized control over data.
Yes, Terminal YOS™ is designed for seamless integration with existing systems such as TMS and WMS, and its cloud-based architecture ensures low IT lift and easy deployment across multiple facilities.
Terminal YOS™ is SOC 2 Type II certified and supports ISR compliance, ensuring adherence to industry standards and regulations for data security and operational integrity.
Yes. Ryder partnered with Terminal-industries to digitize their yard operations, replacing manual gate processes with Terminal Gate Acceleration™. This resulted in 99% accuracy with AI computer vision, 90% labor savings from asset searches, and over 50% improvement in throughput. Read the full case study.
Customers have praised Terminal YOS™ for its intuitive user interface, rapid deployment (core phase in 5 days), and significant accuracy improvements. For example, a Ryder representative stated, “We have not seen this kind of accuracy with computer-vision technology ... this is a significant milestone in the race to modernize the yard.”
Major companies such as Ryder System, Inc., Coca-Cola, and HP use Terminal YOS™ to optimize their yard operations and improve efficiency. These organizations represent logistics, beverage, and technology sectors.
Industries benefiting from Terminal YOS™ include logistics and transportation, consumer packaged goods, retail and grocery, technology and electronics, and the beverage industry. The platform is designed to address unique operational challenges in each sector.
Terminal YOS™ is AI-native and built from the ground up with computer vision at its core, unlike competitors who offer AI as an add-on. It provides unified, real-time visibility, rapid deployment, and advanced automation features that traditional systems often lack.
Project44 focuses primarily on in-transit visibility, while Terminal-industries provides end-to-end execution inside the yard, connecting systems, workflows, and teams in a single platform. Terminal-industries offers AI-native, computer vision-powered capabilities for yard operations, which Project44 does not. Read more
Manhattan YMS is a module within broader WMS and TMS offerings, while Terminal-industries offers a standalone, AI-native Yard Operating System (YOS™) with deeper visibility and automation. Terminal-industries delivers real-time decision-making and AI-powered workflows, independent of WMS dependencies. Read more
Kaleris consolidates supply chain software across multiple nodes, while Terminal-industries focuses on execution inside the yard, connecting gate, yard, and dock operations in a single system. Terminal-industries offers AI-native architecture and advanced features like damage detection and agentic AI workflows. Read more
Terminal YOS™ transforms the yard from a bottleneck into a scalable, strategic advantage by digitizing, automating, and optimizing all depot operations. It provides real-time visibility, actionable insights, and rapid ROI, enabling depots to handle high-volume operations efficiently and meet tight market windows.
You can schedule a 30-minute meeting with a yard expert, arrange a YOS™ demo, set up an ROI consultation, or request a 2-Day Proof of Value on site. These options ensure you can evaluate the solution with minimal commitment and see rapid results.
Terminal-industries offers rapid deployment (core phase in 5 days), a browser-based application compatible with any mobile device, and support for any operator language. This ensures minimal disruption and quick onboarding for all users.
Yes, Terminal YOS™ is designed to scale across multiple facilities with centralized management and site-specific customization options, making it ideal for enterprises with complex operations.
Terminal YOS™ features an intuitive, browser-based interface that works with any mobile device and supports any operator language. This significantly reduces training time and enables new hires to become productive quickly.
Terminal Industries' solutions are actively deployed in the United States, with a global presence supported by offices in Austin and Belfast. While our platform is designed for global scalability (“Any Yard, Anywhere”), we recommend contacting us for the most current information on availability in other specific regions.
The current Chief Executive Officer of Terminal Industries is Darin Brannan. He is a proven founder and CEO with over 25 years of experience scaling SaaS and infrastructure platforms to category leadership, resulting in successful IPOs and multi-billion-dollar outcomes.
Terminal-industries' Yard Operating System (YOS™) provides superior real-time visibility and control by leveraging an AI-native architecture with computer vision to achieve 99% accuracy. Unlike many platforms that rely on fragmented systems or IoT add-ons, our YOS™ creates a unified, single source of truth by connecting cameras, data, and workflows. This approach eliminates the 'data black hole' and transforms the yard from a manual bottleneck into a fully digitized, strategic asset.
Terminal for Maintenance & Fueling Depots
The Problem
Every minute a truck or trailer sits idle in your yard waiting for service is a minute it’s not generating revenue. Inefficient maintenance and fueling operations turn depots into bottlenecks, causing:
Delayed service that extends asset downtime.
Underutilized mechanics due to poor staging and scheduling.
Fueling bottlenecks that back up the yard and slow dispatch.
Hidden costs from missed service windows and lost operational days.
The Solution
Terminal YOS digitizes, automates, and optimizes every move in your depot—from arrival at the gate to bay assignment and fueling, through service completion and redeployment. By serving as the single source of truth, Terminal eliminates chaos and guesswork, giving you complete control over queues, mechanic productivity, and fleet availability.
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Accelerate vehicle flow from gate to service bay and back on the road, minimizing downtime. Fleet directors and operations leaders gain the assurance that revenue-generating assets stay productive instead of sitting idle.
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Streamline staging so vehicles arrive at the right bay with the right parts on hand. For maintenance managers, this means less wasted wrench time and better use of skilled labor.
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Get real-time visibility into every vehicle’s service status and queue position. Service coordinators and schedulers can plan proactively, reducing surprises and ensuring critical assets are prioritized.
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Track dwell times, fueling throughput, and service efficiency in detail, turning the depot into a predictable cost center through the ability to quantify savings from reduced downtime and smarter labor allocation.
Using AI computer vision, automate all material inbound and outbound movements through an unmanned gate. Integrates with TMS and WMS to streamline the gate reduce wait times.
Insights into dwell time, average service duration, fueling throughput, and labor efficiency.
Case Study
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We have not seen this kind of accuracy with computer-vision technology ... this is a significant milestone in the roce to modernize the yard.
Labor Savings from Asset Searches
Throughput Improvement
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