Lights-Out Yard Episode 5 - "Lights-Out, Eyes Open"

A yard that runs itself has to defend itself. And right now, the yard is losing. Cargo theft across the U.S. and Canada surged past $725 million last year, a 60% jump, while identity fraud complaints climbed 438% and the FBI now names carrier impersonation the dominant way freight gets stolen.

In this episode, join Terminal CMO Josh Kivenko and special guest Ryan Arroyo, SVP of Product & Engineering at Terminal, as he lays out a bold thesis: the lights-out yard cannot run on trust. Security, custody, and fraud prevention were never separate problems for a pile of point tools or a bloated enterprise stack, they were siloed only because the technology couldn't yet bring them together. Physical AI changes that. When the system can see who's at the gate, verify the driver, vet the carrier, and prove what left, every gate event becomes a real-time decision, not an alert filed after the truck is gone. This isn't bolt-on security, it's a structural shift where the system that runs the yard is the system that secures it. The lights-out yard won't just move trucks on its own. It'll know exactly who it let in and be able to prove what's on the way out.