DockQueue
A dock scheduling and yard management platform that lets carriers self-book dock appointments, assigns the right door on arrival, and tracks every trailer's dwell and detention live.
// The dock schedule board — a live door-by-door timeline, upcoming appointments with status and dwell, plus yard capacity and on-time arrival KPIs.
Figures from the engagement, shared under NDA.
We publish them unchanged and can’t break them down any further here. The reference build you can open runs entirely on sample data.
If you read one part of this page, read these 4 lines.
- Puts all 24 dock doors on one live timeline instead of a whiteboard
- Lets carriers self-book slots against real door capacity, ending arrival pile-ups
- Runs a detention free-time clock so overruns get caught before they're invoiced
- Attributes every trailer's dwell to a named stage — gate, yard, door or load
What it does — and which part of it we built.
DockQueue replaces the whiteboard and the guard-shack phone with one live dock schedule.
Carriers self-book inbound and outbound appointments against real door capacity; on check-in the system spots each trailer to the right door and logs its yard location; and every trailer's dwell and detention free-time clock run in real time. BuildspaceLabs designed and built the MVP front end — a facility-wide dock-door timeline board for the yard coordinator and a per-appointment detail file for the trailer at the door — turning an appointment book and a stream of gate and door events into a workflow the dock can act on minute by minute.
Every screen here is from the reference build, not the client’s system.
The captions say what you are looking at. Every name and record on them is sample data.
What the engagement left the client with.
- Delivered a production-quality MVP of the dock schedule board and appointment detail view in a 7-week engagement
- Consolidated appointment booking, door assignment, yard tracking and detention into a single coordinator workflow
- Gave yard coordinators a live view of door utilization, dwell and detention exposure across 24 doors
- Established a reusable design system (door timeline blocks, status pills, detention clock, dwell bars) for the product's next surfaces
The stack was picked per constraint, not per house habit.
7 technologies across 3 layers — the shape of the stack follows the problem.
Every feature in the build (6)
- Dock-door timeline board with every door as a row against a 06:00–18:00 axis, appointments colour-coded by inbound and outbound
- Carrier self-booking against live door capacity, with reefer, hazmat and load-type matching on assignment
- Real-time yard and trailer tracking with per-trailer spot, state and dwell
- Live dwell breakdown by stage (gate, yard, door, load) measured against a target time
- Detention free-time clock per trailer with alerts before an overrun becomes a charge
- Yard analytics — door utilization, on-time arrival rate and detention exposure trended over time
Don’t take our word for it — it is running in the frame below.
This is the same page the provenance block links to: our reference build for DockQueue, with its own look, copy and motion. Scroll inside it, or open it full-screen.
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