What a yard visit adds that the manifests leave out
Manifests name destinations. A morning at the gate names the wait, the unofficial staging lane, and the trailer that slept two nights.
The journal
Field notes from the road
Short notes from studies and road days. They are written for people who already keep a yard book, not for a general interest page about 'logistics trends'.
Depot catchments that look round on the wall and are not
A compass circle on a Tbilisi wall map is a lease brochure. The month of drops is a long finger toward one highway and a hole toward the river.
Why the Tbilisi–Poti run bunches at the same hours
Westbound metal does not flow. It bunches at the weighbridge, before the climb, and again when the port's own clock opens.
Read a week of dispatch sheets before you draw a single line
The first day of a study is not a sketch. It is a slow reading of waybills, looking for ghost runs and empty returns that the wall map never shows.