Distribution yard monitoring in Shafter, California

Local and live

Warehouses along 7th Standard Road and Santa Fe Highway

Shafter sits on State Route 43, 18 miles west-northwest of Bakersfield, with Highway 99 to the east and Interstate 5 about 13 miles west. The city's International Trade and Transportation Center was built to give the Central Valley a link to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and a city-run rail facility with more than 10,000 feet of track ties it to BNSF. The city's market guide puts the Wonderful Industrial Park, on 7th Standard Road and Santa Fe Highway at the Bakersfield border, at about 10 million square feet and 10,000 jobs, with 25 million square feet forecast within 10 years.

Cargo theft has been moving toward the southern valley. Verisk CargoNet reported an 82 percent jump in cargo thefts in Kern County in 2025 as thieves shifted away from Los Angeles County, where incidents fell 11 percent. Shafter's police department has 41 sworn officers for a city of about 38 square miles that its market guide expects to keep growing. For a distribution yard, the exposure is trailers dropped for the weekend, tractors parked along the fence and drivers arriving for pickups when no one is at the gate.

Sigma's agents can take on both the gate and the yard at a Shafter distribution site. They see each arriving truck, speak to the driver through the gate speakers, check ID against your pickup lists and open the gate remotely, logging every entry and exit. Yard Operations adds trailer damage inspections, visual seal checks on video and parking reports, and after hours AI person and vehicle detection sends movement to a live agent, who verifies it, gives a live, instant talk-down and calls police.

Also covering Bakersfield, Wasco, Oildale, Rosedale, North Shafter, Myricks Corner, Buttonwillow, McFarland.