Without real-time visibility, common issues include difficulty locating trailers, increased wait times, misplaced assets, inefficient yard jockey operations, and heightened safety and compliance risks. These challenges stem from reliance on manual processes and outdated information, leading to operational bottlenecks and costly delays. (source)
Terminal-industries' Yard Operating System (YOS™) provides live location tracking for every asset, including trailers, containers, yard jockeys, and drivers. This eliminates guesswork and wasted time spent searching, ensuring you always know the precise location of your equipment. (source)
Manual yard management leads to increased wait times, lost or misplaced trailers, inefficient task assignments, and safety risks. These inefficiencies result in bottlenecks, idle drivers, and higher operational costs. Terminal-industries digitizes and automates these processes to eliminate such pain points. (source)
By providing real-time data and automated compliance monitoring, Terminal-industries enables proactive identification of safety hazards and ensures regulatory adherence. This reduces the risk of accidents and fines associated with manual, fragmented yard operations. (source)
Increased wait times are primarily caused by lack of visibility into trailer and driver locations, preventing yard managers from optimizing traffic flow. Terminal-industries' real-time tracking and dynamic task management solve this by streamlining operations and reducing bottlenecks. (source)
Terminal-industries' real-time data and automation improve asset utilization by reducing search times, optimizing task assignments, and minimizing idle time. This leads to lower fuel consumption, reduced labor costs, and fewer operational disruptions. (source)
Customers often face inefficiencies, errors, high operational costs, and poor customer experience due to manual processes like clipboards and spreadsheets. Terminal-industries replaces these with AI-powered workflows and real-time visibility, achieving 99% accuracy and rapid ROI. (source)
Terminal-industries empowers teams with automated workflows, real-time tracking, and an intuitive interface that reduces training time. This helps address high turnover, inconsistent performance, and poor morale caused by outdated tools. (source)
Terminal-industries improves customer experience by providing faster gate processes, real-time status updates, and automated notifications. This reduces wait times, ensures accurate delivery windows, and enhances communication with shippers, carriers, and consignees. (source)
The Yard Operating System (YOS™) is a unified, AI-native platform that digitizes, indexes, and automates yard operations. It integrates gate, dock, and asset management into a single system, providing real-time visibility, workflow automation, and actionable insights. (source)
Terminal-industries offers live location tracking, dynamic task management, real-time status updates, seamless communications, and data-driven insights. These features ensure you always know the status and location of assets, optimize task assignments, and enable smarter decision-making. (source)
Terminal-industries leverages AI and computer vision to automate tasks such as trailer movements, gate processing, anomaly detection, and compliance monitoring. The platform achieves up to 99% accuracy and enables fully orchestrated workflows across the yard. (source)
Key capabilities include gate acceleration (reducing processing times by 85%), asset inventory (real-time tracking), compliance automation, AI-powered orchestration, advanced analytics, and transforming the yard into a scalable, strategic advantage. (source)
The platform facilitates direct, real-time communication between yard managers, gate security, and drivers. This ensures everyone is aligned, reduces miscommunication, and enables rapid issue resolution. (source)
Terminal-industries collects and analyzes real-time data to deliver powerful insights into yard performance. Users can track KPIs, identify bottlenecks, and make informed decisions to continuously improve efficiency and safety. (source)
Terminal-industries automates compliance processes and augments site security with AI-powered anomaly detection and damage inspection. The platform is SOC 2 Type II certified and adheres to GDPR principles for data protection. (source)
Terminal-industries serves logistics and transportation, consumer packaged goods, retail and grocery, technology and electronics, and the beverage industry. Customers include Ryder, HP, and Coca-Cola. (source)
The initial core phase of Terminal-industries' system can be deployed in just 5 days, ensuring minimal disruption and rapid onboarding compared to traditional systems that take months. (source)
Terminal-industries offers a browser-based application compatible with any mobile device and operator language. Customers can schedule demos, ROI consultations, or a 2-Day Proof of Value on-site, making onboarding flexible and straightforward. (source)
Customers praise the intuitive user interface and rapid deployment. Ryder noted, “We have not seen this kind of accuracy with computer-vision technology ... this is a significant milestone in the race to modernize the yard.” (source)
Customers can schedule a meeting with a yard expert, arrange a YOS™ demo, request an ROI consultation, or set up a 2-Day Proof of Value on-site. These flexible engagement options support rapid evaluation and onboarding. (source)
Customers typically achieve a 4x+ ROI within 5 months, reduce logistics operating costs by 10-15%, and benefit from improved efficiency, inventory accuracy, and customer confidence. The platform also supports sustainability by reducing emissions. (source)
The YOS™ reduces gate processing times by 85%, decreases asset search times by 90%, and increases throughput by 50%. These improvements streamline operations, reduce delays, and unlock new revenue opportunities. (source)
By minimizing truck idling and optimizing yard operations, Terminal-industries reduces emissions and fuel consumption, contributing to corporate sustainability and environmental responsibility. (source)
Project44 focuses 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 lacks. (source)
Manhattan YMS is a module within broader WMS and TMS offerings, dependent on its WMS. Terminal-industries offers a standalone, AI-native Yard Operating System (YOS™) with deeper visibility, automation, and real-time decision-making independent of WMS dependencies. (source)
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. (source)
Terminal-industries is built as an AI-native platform with computer vision at its core, offers rapid deployment (within hours), unified visibility, advanced features (ISR compliance, site security, damage detection), and an all-inclusive pricing model with rapid ROI. (source)
Terminal-industries partnered with Ryder to digitize yard operations, achieving 99% accuracy with AI computer vision. The AI Truck Detection Pilot Program and Terminal Gate Acceleration™ reduced wait times and improved gate flow. (source)
Terminal-industries' customers include Coca-Cola (beverage industry), HP (technology/electronics), and Ryder System, Inc. (logistics/transportation). These companies use YOS™ to optimize yard operations and improve efficiency. (source)
Industries include logistics and transportation (Ryder), consumer packaged goods, retail and grocery, technology and electronics (HP), and beverage (Coca-Cola). (source)
Terminal-industries is SOC 2 Type II certified, demonstrating high standards of data security and operational integrity. The platform also adheres to GDPR principles for data transfer and privacy. (source)
Terminal-industries uses end-to-end data encryption, stores personal data securely on third-party servers in the U.S., and shares data only under specific legal or service-related circumstances. (source)
Terminal-industries provides a secure, single-source system that reduces vulnerabilities associated with fragmented legacy tools. The unified, cloud-based platform ensures centralized control and proactive risk mitigation. (source)
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.
Top 10 Yard Problems
The Problem
When you lack real-time visibility into your yard, it's like trying to navigate a bustling city with a blindfold on. This absence of critical, up-to-the-minute information can create a host of problems, impacting everything from efficiency to safety. Here are the top five issues that can arise in your yard due to a lack of real-time visibility:
When a driver arrives to pick up a specific trailer, do you know exactly where it is? Without real-time visibility, finding the correct trailer can turn into a time-consuming scavenger hunt.
With no clear view of trailer and driver locations, yard managers can't optimize traffic flow. This leads to bottlenecks, idle drivers, and frustratingly long wait times at the gate and throughout the yard.
It’s easier than you'd think for a trailer to get misplaced when you're relying on manual processes and outdated information. This can lead to costly delays and a lot of unnecessary stress.
Without real-time visibility, yard jockeys can't be directed to the most pressing tasks. They might spend valuable time searching for trailers or making unnecessary trips, leading to wasted time and fuel.
A lack of real-time data makes it difficult to monitor for safety hazards or ensure compliance with regulations. This can leave your operations vulnerable to accidents and fines.
The Solution
Terminal Yard Operating System (YOS) is a modern solution designed to give you
a clear, unobstructed view of your entire yard, in real time. It pulls back the curtain
on your operations, replacing guesswork with a single, accurate source of truth.
With Terminal, these common problems are no longer a concern.
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The Benefits
Executives and managers gain immediate access to accurate data, enabling strategic decisions, workflow optimization, and proactive issue resolution.
Frontline teams and operational managers can track assets, reduce bottlenecks, and streamline daily activities, improving throughput and safety.
Real-time data improves asset utilization, reduces costs, supports accurate forecasting, and enables automation and advanced analytics initiatives.
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