In the trucking world, trailer spotting is when a truck trailer is parked in a designated spot in the distribution yard, detached from the tractor, and then prepared to be ready-to-go for when its driver arrives. It’s a strategy that boosts efficiency for our shippers because it reduces the amount of downtime truckers have at the docking area. If your current trucking and warehouse logistics partner doesn’t offer Ohio trailer spotting services, it may be time to explore alternative options.

How Ohio Trailer Spotting Helps Streamline Your Processes

Having a trucking service that also offers trailer spotting can make a big difference in the efficiency of how your goods are moved. Some of the ways include:

• Less down time. If we have a shipper that routinely moves high volume (let’s say once daily), trailer spotting allows us to have a carrier enter the yard, drop off a trailer, and pick up the daily load immediately. Trailer spotting ensures an empty trailer is immediately available for whatever needs to be moved right away. It can significantly reduce the amount of trucker downtime and shipment backlogs. Delays can result in products sitting in your yard, putting strain on the warehouse, increases losses, and increases the amount the driver is paid to wait idly. But with trailer spotting, when a driver drops off one trailer, another is already on standby ready to go. Ohio trailer spotting also ensures the warehouse is going to maximize efficiency on the warehouse side of things as well because empty trailers are parked where they need to be for quick loading and fast turnaround. Shippers and carriers benefit.
• Yard management efficiency. In fact, your entire supply chain is going to run more smoothly. Yard management specifically refers to how trucks are organized and moved within the warehouse yard and loading docks. All those trucks need to be positioned, scheduled, loaded, unloaded – with the movement of all items on and off done with care and tracked in real time. Trailer spotting allows us to more easily manage pick-up loads, which in turn helps streamline the entire process.
• Flexibility in scheduling. When it comes to warehousing, trucking, and supply chain logistics in general, something is always changing. But that creates significant challenging when warehouse and trucking schedules of certain assets are locked in. Trailer spotting services allow us to provide additional flexibility, allowing us ultimately to be better prepared for unexpected issues and provide the best service possible for our customers.

In short, efficient trailer movement from yard to dock to outbound staging areas is essential. Our Ohio trailer spotting services ensure your contents are unloaded, loaded, stored, and transported with maximum efficiency. We have four decades of experience working not only with our own internal warehousing and distribution operations, but also with other freight yards and shipping & receiving facilities to ensure your inventory is properly managed and moved with the greatest possible care and speed.

The Ohio trailer spotting professionals at On Time Delivery & Warehouse only operate safety-inspected equipment. We also take preventative maintenance schedules very seriously (to minimize downtime for yard trucks). Onboard communication systems also help expedite the process of moving all trailers in and out. Collectively, our trailer spotting and processing procedures ensure that all trailers are in the right place, at the right time so that your goods arrive at their destination intact, on time, every time.

Contact On Time Delivery & Warehouse by calling (440) 826-4630 or send us an email.

Additional Resources:

FMCSA head commits to boosting oversight of trucking, Sept. 22, 2021, By John Gallagher, FreightWaves.com

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