Yard management system

A computer-implemented method for remotely identifying vehicles at a distribution center, comprising:

• providing a database storing load information related to a plurality of loads carried by the vehicles;
• acquiring, by a mobile application associated with a user account and executable on a mobile device, load information related to a plurality of loads carrier by the vehicles;
• generating, by the mobile application, a machine-readable representation corresponding to the load information;
• receiving, by a computing device in communication with the mobile device and the database, the load information associated with the vehicle from the mobile device;
• transmitting the status of a load carried by the vehicle from the computing device to a client device associated with the distribution center when the mobile device associated with the driver of the vehicle is detected within a geo-fenced zone associated with the distribution center based on a location signal received by the computing device from the mobile device associated with the driver of the vehicle;
• receiving, by the computing device, from the client device associated with the distribution center, an image of the machine-readable representation scanned by the client device from the mobile device associated with the driver of the vehicle;
• extracting, by the computing device, the load information associated with the vehicle from the image of the machine-readable representation received by the computing device from the client device.