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Catch a yard trailer's free time before it runs out

Trailers pile up free time while nobody is watching the clock between shift changes. This app checks each trailer against its carrier agreement and flags the moment detention charges start.

For the yard managerLogistics & Transportation · Cross-domain

Why it matters

Today's manual process, and the same job with the app

A yard or dock manager at a trucking or logistics yard, watching every shift.

✕Today's manual process

1Walk the yard report at shift change, one trailer visit at a time.
2Read the gate log to find when the clock really started, and every stop along the way.
3Decide who caused each stop the carrier or the yard, by memory and judgment call.
4Miss one and a detention charge either goes unbilled or gets disputed and lost.
Every trailer walked and judged manually

✓With the app

1The clock is read the moment it really started, straight from the gate log.
2Carrier stops are separated from the yard's own delays, automatically.
3Free time is checked against the carrier agreement on file, every few hours.
4The event opens once the moment it's earned, never twice, for a manager to confirm.
One event opens, exactly once, automatically

See it work

One real case, from the recorded run, step by step

A trailer waiting at Dock 12 for almost six hours has just crossed its four-hour free time limit.

Catch a yard trailer's free time before it runs outReference appBuilt to be shaped to your process
  1. 1The reading 5.75 hours have now elapsed; before this check the visit was reported clear.
  2. 2What doesn't count 0.75 hours were the carrier's own delay; 4.00 hours of free time are allowed.
  3. 3What it found Detention has opened on this visit, past its free time.
  4. 4The proof 5.75 hours minus the 0.75-hour break minus 4.00 hours free time leaves 1.00.
  5. 5Who acts next The event opens now, for a yard manager to confirm.

For engineers

How it is built, and how we measured it

All fourteen steps of the build are written up, from the business case to running it in your own environment.

Kit overview →
0 of 28billable events missedmeasured in 06 Evals →
0 of 92events opened twice by mistakemeasured in 06 Evals →
0.66% offerror in the reported totalmeasured in 06 Evals →
$0.45to check all 120 readingsmeasured in 07 Unit cost →

The build, step by step

14 steps

Make it yours

What you see is a reference app. We shape it to how you work.

Every part of it is built to change, and none of it means starting over.

Your rulesYour own free-time terms, hourly rate and which stops count as chargeable.
Your recordsYour gate log, appointment times and yard notes, in the format you already keep.
Your systemsConnects to your yard management or gate system; events post where you already track them.
Your screensThe visit list, the fields and the wording your own yard team already uses.

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