Dock and yard study: every truck, every door, timed
How long do trucks really wait? Which doors carry the load and which sit idle? Your dock and gate cameras already know. We measure weeks of their footage and show you where the time goes, then test fixes on a digital twin.
Gate to door, door to departure, by hour, by day and by door. The mornings where waits pass your target.
Door utilization
Which doors are busy all morning and which sit empty, and how long each door stays occupied.
Yard and gate queues
Trucks waiting at the gate or in the yard, and whether the line reaches the public road.
Detention risk
Visits that run past free time, and the hours they cluster in.
Staging
Lanes behind the doors that fill up, and how long pallets sit before they move.
Blind spots
What your cameras cannot see, and the cheapest re-aim that would close the gap.
Dock door camera: trucks boxed and tracked, a clock on every door. Illustrative example site, not a client.
How it works
Your team exports two to four weeks of footage from the gate, yard and dock cameras (we send step-by-step instructions for your recorder brand). Computer vision detects and tracks every truck and trailer on our own hardware. We check a sample of the counts and times by hand, and every number in the report links back to frames you can look at yourself.
A finding reads like this: "Trucks wait longest at doors 1–4 between 6 and 9 am, when the median dwell reaches 38 minutes; moving two 7 am arrivals after 10 am would cut door turn by about 14 minutes." (Illustrative sample.)
Then: test the fix on a twin
The measured arrivals and dwell times feed a digital twin of your docks. Re-timed appointments, door assignment rules, an extra door or a drop-trailer lot are tested on the model first, with the hours and detention saved, before you change the schedule.
Computer vision detects each truck and trailer in the gate, yard and dock camera footage and tracks it from arrival to departure. Each visit gets timestamps, so dwell is measured for every truck, not sampled.
What is dock door utilization?
The share of time each dock door is occupied by a trailer. Measuring it per door and per hour shows doors that queue while others sit idle.
Do we need new cameras for a dock study?
Usually not. Most sites already have gate and dock cameras. If a question needs a view you do not have, we say so in the discovery call and suggest the cheapest fix.
Will you see our drivers' faces or plates?
We do not use face recognition or identify anyone. People are blurred in anything we keep, and plates are blurred too.
See your own site this way
Start with a free discovery call: your goals, your cameras, and a look at a sample twin. Industrial sites in Lake County and north Cook County, Illinois.
