
Yard Dwell Time: How to Measure It and How to Cut It
Yard dwell is the number a distribution centre is judged on. Here is where it starts and stops, how to measure it without new hardware, and the four causes worth attacking.

CEO & Founder, TrucksOnTheMap · MBA
Tamas Domonkos is an economist and logistics entrepreneur with 17+ years of experience in European freight and transport operations. As CEO and founder of TrucksOnTheMap, he helps shippers and forwarders secure truckload capacity and track their shipments in real time. Earlier in his career he held commercial and operational roles at Transporeon, Eurogate Logistics and Toyota Peugeot Citroën Automobile (TPCA) — giving him a 360° view of how shippers, carriers and technology meet on the road. He holds an MBA from Donau-Universität Krems and writes about freight visibility, truckload capacity, supply-chain efficiency and the technology reshaping European road transport.

Yard dwell is the number a distribution centre is judged on. Here is where it starts and stops, how to measure it without new hardware, and the four causes worth attacking.

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