Remote yard monitoring in Longview, Texas

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Rail-served business parks along I-20

Longview sits on I-20 about 125 miles east of Dallas and 60 miles west of Shreveport, with Union Pacific running one of its major Texas crew-change points through the city: an average of 50 through-freight trains, three local freights and eight switch-engine starts move through every day, handling roughly 450 rail cars in the process. The Longview Economic Development Corporation owns and manages three business parks built around that traffic: the 475-acre Longview Business Park, the 704-acre North Business Park, and the newly launched 1,165-acre Bar-K Business Park on US Highway 80, about six miles from I-20. Eastman Chemical Company's plant here, one of the city's largest employers with more than 1,500 workers, adds its own steady flow of tanker and rail traffic to that network.

FBI 2024 data shows Longview recorded 264 burglaries that year, equal to about 315 for every 100,000 residents, above both the Texas and national figures, with the city's overall crime count running close to 27 percent above the national figure. The Gregg County Sheriff's Office said in August 2025 that thefts of side-by-side utility vehicles were rising locally, especially ahead of hunting season, because the machines are compact enough for two people to load and leave with in minutes. The same logic applies to trailers and equipment sitting in a yard: anything that can be driven or towed away quickly is a target once nobody is watching.

A Longview yard doesn't get an occasional drive-by for a look: agents are on every camera live, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, including nights, weekends and holidays. AI person and vehicle detection flags anyone moving among parked trailers or stored equipment once a shift ends, an agent checks the footage, gives a live, instant talk-down through the site's speakers and brings in police along with your own contacts, with video clips and a written report to follow. Gate Operations checks each driver against your pickup lists before the gate opens remotely, and Yard Operations adds trailer damage inspections and visual seal checks on video.

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