Yard management for food & beverage distribution.
In food and beverage, a trailer that sits is a trailer burning reefer fuel and free-time. Vantage times every gate in and out, tracks how long each reefer has been in the yard, and warns you before detention starts — on a phone, no hardware, from $149/mo.
Food and beverage yards run hot: high inbound volume, tight dock windows, and refrigerated trailers that cost money for every hour they idle. When arrival times live on a clipboard, you cannot prove a driver waited, you cannot see which reefer has been sitting longest, and detention becomes a monthly argument you usually lose.
What food & beverage distribution yards actually need
- Reefer dwell visibility — sort the yard by oldest trailer, pull the ones bleeding fuel first
- Gate timestamps that survive a detention dispute
- Carrier self-scheduling to smooth the morning inbound spike
- Temperature-sensitive priority — flag loads that cannot wait
- Offline-first — the gate keeps recording when wifi drops
Transparent price, no hardware
Vantage publishes pricing — $149 Lite, $349 Pro (adds C-TPAT), $649 Scale — with a 14-day free trial and no setup fee. There's nothing to install, so you can be live in a day and add sites without a project plan.
Frequently asked
Does Vantage track refrigerated trailer dwell?
Yes. Every trailer carries a live dwell clock from the moment it is gated in, so you can sort the yard by oldest and clear reefers before free time expires and detention starts.
Can it handle a heavy morning inbound rush?
Carrier self-serve appointment booking spreads arrivals across the day instead of the inbox, and gate check-in takes seconds per truck, so the morning queue stops backing up onto the road.
Do we need special hardware for a cold DC?
No. Vantage runs on the phone in your gate clerk's hand — no RFID, no kiosks, no sensors to install or keep working in a cold, wet environment.
See your yard's detention number first.
Free calculator, then a 14-day trial. No hardware, no sales call required.
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