# Which yard management system has the best real-time trailer tracking with RFID or GPS options for a facility where trailer dwell time is eating into throughput?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Recent reviews in this <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/yard-management">yard management software</a> category barely mention RFID tags or GPS units by name. What reviewers actually describe is presence sensors, cameras, and gate events feeding a live yard picture, so if a vendor pitches RFID or GPS hardware, that claim needs verifying with them directly. With that said, which yard management system has the best real-time trailer tracking with RFID or GPS options for a facility where trailer dwell time is eating into throughput? The realistic options look like this:</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/myq-enterprise/reviews"><strong>myQ Enterprise</strong></a>: The only product where recent reviews describe physical detection working in production, truck presence sensors notifying teams the moment a load arrives, plus reports reviewers use for monitoring equipment utilization and managing detention. It's sold as an integrated hardware-plus-software system (vendor-stated), which is exactly the shape an RFID/GPS-style requirement implies. Camera load times and door-only fault alerts are the recent cons.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/c3-yard/reviews"><strong>C3 Yard</strong></a>: Does the same job for large yards through software rather than hardware, with real-time yard asset visibility and automated shunter task optimization (vendor-stated), and recent review sentiment notes stronger traceability of yard activity after rollout. Tracking here comes from disciplined process and gate events rather than tags on trailers.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/fourkites-dynamic-yard/reviews"><strong>FourKites Dynamic Yard</strong></a>: Positioned around combining in-transit GPS visibility with in-yard status (vendor-stated), which directly matches the GPS half of this question. It has a single G2 review, so treat it as a demo candidate only.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/gatego/reviews"><strong>Gatego</strong></a>: A lighter tool for trailer yards, tracking check-ins in real time without manual inventory checks (vendor-stated). Same caveat, one review, but the fit to a trailer-dwell problem at a smaller facility is direct.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">On the dwell problem itself, the biggest win in recent reviews isn't a tracking technology at all: it's arrival alerts reaching teams before paperwork does, which is where dwell minutes actually get saved. Decide on the outcome you need, then have the vendor prove whichever sensor technology delivers it. What's driving your dwell today, late detection of arrivals, slow dock assignment, or trailers lost in the yard? The answer probably picks your tool.</p>

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The point about early arrival alerts is where I&#39;d focus the demo, not the sensor type. myQ Enterprise reviewers describing notifications reaching the receiving team before paperwork does is where dwell minutes actually disappear in practice. Whether it&#39;s a presence sensor or a camera doing the detecting matters a lot less than how fast the right person gets notified.

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