Yard Moves in the Yardor Yard App

Claim a yard move on your phone, run it step by step — scan to verify the equipment, confirm the pick with a photo, drop it at the target — and report an exception with a reason when the move cannot go as planned.

A yard move takes one piece of equipment — a trailer, a container, a tractor — from where it sits now to where it needs to be. In the Yardor Yard App, moves live under the Moves tab in the bottom bar. You claim a move, run it on the phone while you walk the yard, and the office sees the same task move through its states on the web.

The moves list: the pool and your tasks#

The Moves tab is split in two: the claim pool — moves nobody has taken yet — and My tasks, the moves already yours. Each section carries a count, and a task that somehow arrives twice is shown once. Tap a task to open it. If the list cannot refresh, the last synced copy stands in and the screen shows when its data is from, with a stale mark once it is old.

Claiming a move#

Claiming is one big button on the task — and it is an online action. The claim is sent the moment you tap, not queued for later: offline, the app tells you a connection is needed instead of claiming silently. If someone else took the same move first, the app shows the server’s reason in plain words and refreshes the list, so you never set off on a move that is no longer yours.

Running a move#

The run screen keeps the essentials big: the equipment number, where it starts from, and where it is going, with a colour block for the task’s current state and a row showing which evidence photos are already attached. The steps follow the state — Start, then Pick, then Drop — and starting and finishing each take no more than two taps. A move that was reported as an exception shows its reason on this screen and offers Resume instead of the normal next step.

Scan to verify: start and pick#

Starting a move, and again when you hook the equipment, the app asks you to scan the equipment number. The number it expects is printed large at the top. Scan it, or type it in the manual field and tap Check. A wrong number stays on this screen with the error in red — you fix it on the spot and scan again; a right number takes you straight back to the run screen with the step confirmed. There is no way to wave a mismatch through, because the whole point is proving you are moving the right equipment.

Confirm the pick — and photograph it#

1. At the equipment, open the pick confirmation. It shows the equipment number and the from → to of this move one more time.
2. Scan the equipment number if the screen asks for it, and take the pick photo — the same gate photo screen used at the gate, one photo of the hooked equipment.
3. Tap Pick to confirm. The photo travels with the confirmation, so the office can see the right equipment was hooked.

Dropping at the target#

Take the equipment to the target shown on the run screen and open Drop. The screen names the target spot in large type; confirm the drop there — and if your move uses a drop photo, take it on the same photo screen — and the task completes. What you confirmed on the phone is what the yard board and the office list show.

Reporting an exception#

Sometimes the move cannot go as planned — the target is taken, the equipment will not move, or it is not where the list said. Do not improvise a different drop and do not just walk away: open Report exception from the run screen. A reason is required; pick the one that fits:

• Target spot occupied — something else is sitting where this equipment was supposed to go.
• Equipment fault — the vehicle or equipment has a problem and cannot be moved safely.
• Vehicle not found — the equipment is not at the place the task says.
• Other — anything else; the note below carries the detail.

Add a note if it helps, and a photo if the phone offers one — a picture of the occupied target settles most arguments. One tap submits the report. The task then sits on hold, showing the reason, until it is resumed from the run screen or sorted out by the office; it does not count as done, and it does not disappear.

Yardor features used in this article#

• Yard App bottom bar → Moves (claim pool and My tasks)
• Move run screen → scan check, pick confirmation with photo, drop, exception report