Industry · Transportation
Stop cargo theft before the load leaves the yard.
Tec-Tel designs, installs, and runs cameras, gate LPR, and AI cargo-theft analytics for trucking terminals, logistics yards, and transit depots. FMCSA and TSA-aware. NDAA-compliant. 15 years as a national security integrator.
- NDAA-compliant
- Platform-agnostic
- 1,000+ deployments over 15 years
§01 What we install in transportation
Coverage built for the way a yard actually runs.
What a terminal gets after Tec-Tel commissions the system, and what your terminal manager, safety lead, and dispatch see from day one.
§ How we work
Cargo theft is a six-figure annual line for a lot of carriers. We put LPR on every gate and trailer-movement alerts across your terminals, with verified response, so an unauthorized load gets a live monitoring agent before it leaves the yard.
How Tec-Tel works in transportation
§02 How a Tec-Tel deployment works
Five steps, one accountable team.
Walk every yard before we quote
No quote-by-aerial-photo. We come on site, talk to your terminal manager and safety lead, and document gate, yard, and dock coverage.
Standardize across terminals
One or two camera platforms. One access platform. Twenty terminals get one VMS and one runbook, not twenty.
Size the network for outdoor + scale
Yard cameras need PoE-plus, hardened housings, and fiber backhaul across acres. We touch infrastructure before cameras.
Tune analytics for yard contexts
Trailer-movement and proximity analytics need on-site calibration. Outdoor lighting and weather change the model; we tune for it.
Hand off with a runbook
Your team gets a written ops doc: escalation tree, retention rules, dispatch integration, who calls Tec-Tel for what.
§03 How we deploy
Three yard types. Three tailored builds.
No two transportation operations get the same install. Here's what we deploy across the three most common builds.
Carrier or 3PL terminal with gate, yard, dock, fuel island
- → Gate LPR with DOT-number + driver reconciliation
- → Trailer-movement detection outside dispatch windows
- → Dock-door + yard-jockey proximity safety
- → 24/7 verified-response monitoring
National carrier or 3PL across many terminals
- → Standardized camera spec across terminals
- → Central VMS, regional install + service crews
- → Cargo-theft pattern alerts shared across the network
- → Dispatch-system integration for trip-record clips
Bus or rail transit agency, depot + maintenance bays
- → TSA / FTA-aligned platform + depot coverage
- → NDAA Section 889-compliant (federal transit funding)
- → Maintenance-bay safety analytics
- → Incident retention for claims + agency reporting
§04 Compliance buyers ask us about
Frameworks we build to.
Federal Motor Carrier Safety. Yard + gate coverage and retention designed to support a DOT compliance review or a CSA-score incident inquiry.
For passenger transit: Transportation Security Administration + Federal Transit Administration security expectations on platform, depot, and vehicle coverage.
Transit agencies and carriers taking federal funding hit Section 889. NDAA-compliant cameras + switches, documented BOM.
Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism. For cross-border carriers: documented yard and container coverage aligned to C-TPAT minimum security criteria.
Questions buyers ask us
FAQ
- How much does a transportation security install cost?
- Cost depends on yard acreage, gate count, dock and fuel-island coverage, and existing infrastructure. Outdoor yards cost more per camera than indoor sites (hardened housings, fiber backhaul, PoE-plus). A multi-terminal carrier rollout amortizes per-site through standardized design. We scope the yard on the consultation and come back with a defensible per-terminal budget. That scope is the free consultation.
- Can you cover large outdoor yards?
- Yes. Yard coverage is most of what we do in this vertical. Hardened cameras, PoE-plus, fiber backhaul across acres, and LPR at every gate. We design the network for outdoor scale before placing a single camera.
- Does this help with cargo theft?
- Directly. AI flags trailer movement outside dispatch windows, kingpin tampering, and seal-breaks, then 24/7 verified-response monitoring confirms before the load is on the highway. CargoNet tracked roughly $455M in US and Canada cargo theft losses in 2024, a record; broader industry estimates run far higher once unreported theft is counted. Yard coverage is one of the cheapest mitigations.
- Does it integrate with our dispatch / TMS?
- Yes for most modern stacks. Gate and fuel-island cameras tie to dispatch records via event bridges so a damage claim or chargeback has the clip one click from the trip record. Direct integration depends on your specific TMS.
- Are you NDAA-compliant for transit agency funding?
- Yes. Transit agencies and carriers taking federal funding hit NDAA Section 889. We install NDAA-compliant manufacturers only and provide a documented BOM with serial numbers for your funding compliance file.
Book a free assessment
Tell us about your terminals. We'll come back with a plan.
The Tec-Tel team walks your terminals with you, then comes back with what your yards need, what FMCSA and TSA expect, and a defensible per-terminal budget.
- Tell us how many sites you run and what's already in place. We'll show you what a build or upgrade looks like.
- Straight answers from the team that does the work. We're platform-agnostic, so you get the system that fits your sites, not one brand's catalog.
Since 2010 · 1,000+ deployments nationwide · ISN-accredited
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