PortDwellr replaces the clipboard, the walkie-talkie, and whoever's working the gate that day with a closed loop of AI agents that check trucks in, sequence the queue, assign the dock, and settle every dispute — on their own.
| # | Carrier | Type | Status | Wait |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 014 | Sandia Freight | Dry Van | Queued | — |
| 015 | Coastal Intermodal | Flatbed | At Dock 3 | — |
| 016 | Rio Grande Dray | Drop & Hook | Queued | — |
| 017 | Bluewater Transport | Dry Van | Checked In | — |
A clipboard. A walkie-talkie. And whoever happens to be working the gate that day. Drivers park on the street and wait to be waved in. Nobody can see their place in line. Appointment windows get argued about at the gate instead of enforced by the system. A container disappears into the yard for a week and there's no record of why.
None of this is a people problem. It's a tooling problem — and it's the default state for almost every small and mid-size yard in the country.
PortDwellr isn't a scheduling calendar with a chatbot bolted on. It's a native, autonomous loop — each agent hands its output directly to the next, and the last agent feeds what it learns back into the first. No dispatcher has to run it by hand.
Every truck checks in by QR code or text the moment it arrives. No app to download, no kiosk line to stand in.
The queue orders itself by arrival time, appointment window, and trailer type — fair, visible, and the same for everyone.
Dock doors and yard space are assigned in real time, so nobody blocks a bay or a parking spot again.
Arrival, dock assignment, unload start and end, departure — every touch is timestamped, so detention disputes settle themselves.
The system studies its own throughput — bottlenecks, peak hours, staffing gaps — and feeds it back into tomorrow's queue.
Drivers check in from the cab. No app, no account, no waiting to be noticed.
Every driver and every gate clerk sees the same queue, in the same order, at the same time.
Windows are enforced automatically — no more fee disputes over who arrived early or late.
Bays and yard space are assigned live, based on what's actually open right now.
A defensible, timestamped record of every stage — from gate to departure.
Trucks per hour, bottlenecks, staffing gaps — the numbers no operator currently has.
Big distribution networks already have dock scheduling platforms — sold on multi-site contracts with month-long integrations. PortDwellr is built for the yard down the road from them: the family-run drayage lot, the port-adjacent cross-dock, the flatbed yard running five to fifty trucks a day on nothing but instinct.
See the loop running on your own gate manifest in under a week.