Yard and dock automation ROI calculator
ROI calculator
What does the yard cost you today?
Put in your own numbers and the calculator does the arithmetic. Every percentage it shows is derived from the assumption table below it — change an assumption and the percentage, the money and the report all move with it.
Your operation
Currency
What kind of yard is this
Who runs the yard
PeopleHours · value · rate
Gate and check-in
45 h · $40112%
Yard coordinator, duty manager, planner
119 h · $1,07040%
Shunters and spotter drivers
no people — not counted
If a role does not exist in your yard, or is done by a contractor you do not pay by the hour, enter 0 — that line then produces no gain at all.
Total on the yard4
What the yard costs you today
Estimated monthly saving
Released capacity, valued$1,375
153 h · 0.7 FTE
Detention paid to carriers$1,400
Your own vehicles waiting in the yard$1,144
30 min × vehicle
Rescuing a late load$240
Per site, per month$4,159
All sites, per year$49,906
An estimate produced from the numbers you entered. We confirm the real baseline together in a thirty-minute call.