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THE DOOR HAS TO STAY OPEN
Warehouse security is the inverse of the problem most properties present. The building does not move. The walls are concrete, the racking is bolted down, and the fence has been in the same place for eleven years. What moves is everything and everyone inside it, and almost all of them have a legitimate reason to be there.
That is the exposure. A distribution center runs on doors that open. Forty dock positions, inbound and outbound, and a driver at each one you have never met and will never see again. Temp staff hired for peak, badged on a Monday, working the pick line by Tuesday. Trailers left in the yard overnight holding freight that belongs to somebody else, which means the loss is not only yours to absorb but yours to explain. A fence protects you from the people who were never supposed to come in. It does nothing about the ones you invited.
Loss at a warehouse rarely looks like a break-in. It looks like a count that comes up short at the end of a shift, and no one is able to say when. It looks like a pallet that walked out on a legitimate BOL for a load nobody ordered. Almost every serious loss traces back to a moment when someone had access they were entitled to and nobody was recording what they did with it. We build coverage around access and accountability first, and the fence line second, because that is the order in which warehouses actually lose things.
WHERE WAREHOUSES ACTUALLY LOSE
A driver and an employee agree on a count, and the paperwork never disagrees with them.
Freight sitting in the yard overnight belongs to a customer, and the loss becomes a claim.
Seasonal hires get badge access before anyone has watched how they work.
Tractors, containers, and empties move through a gate that nobody is standing at.
Electronics and pharmaceuticals leave in a jacket, not on a pallet.
Vendors, inspectors, and maintenance walk in on familiarity rather than credentials.
WHY CHOOSE STONEWALL
Presence where freight changes hands, not a patrol car circling an empty lot.
Written records of who entered, when, and on whose authorization.
Staffing that scales when your headcount doubles and your risk doubles with it.
Angles on the dock face, the yard gate, and the high-value cage, positioned for the footage a claim needs.
Washington-based oversight that understands how a shift actually runs.
Daily incident reporting written to be usable in a claim, not filed and forgotten.
HOW WE START
We design coverage around the way your job site actually operates - not a generic patrol contract.
01
We talk to your operations manager about shift patterns, peak calendar, and what has come up short.
02
We walk the dock face, the yard, the cage, and every door that opens without a camera on it.
03
Post orders, access procedure, patrol routes for the yard, and who gets called when a count is wrong.
04
Coverage revisited before peak, after peak, and whenever your throughput changes shape.
WHAT WE ACTUALLY DO
Coverage should follow the freight. These are the pieces, combined in whatever mix your operation supports.
A posted officer where trailers arrive and depart, checking that paperwork matches what moves.
Credentialed entry for drivers, vendors, temps, and contractors, with a log that survives an audit.
Regular checks on parked trailers, seals, and empties, on routes that vary night to night.
Cameras aimed at dock doors, the yard gate, and high-value storage, with retention long enough to matter.
Someone watching the yard at 2 a.m., rather than pulling footage after the trailer is gone.
Additional officers through the months when your floor is full of people nobody has worked with before.
WHY IT MATTERS
The stolen pallet is the cheapest part of a warehouse loss. The expensive part is that the freight was not yours. A shortage on a customer's load becomes a claim, a chargeback, and a conversation with a shipper deciding whether to keep routing volume through your building.
Then there is what a loss does to a facility internally. An unexplained shortage means an investigation, which means interviewing people who work for you and finding that nothing was recorded well enough to clear any of them. The cost is a crew that stops trusting the shift next to it. Access controlled properly from the start costs less than any of that, and it protects your people as much as your inventory.
A short load becomes a chargeback and a renegotiated contract.
Shippers move volume to facilities that do not lose it.
Repeated shortages become a line item at renewal.
An unrecorded loss means suspecting everyone and clearing no one.
Unresolved theft corrodes a floor faster than the loss itself.
Missing access records surface at the worst possible moment.
INDUSTRIES WE SERVE
Construction
Warehousing and Distribution
Manufacturing
Retail
Office Buildings
Hospitality
Healthcare
Education
Financial Institutions
Data Centers
Parking Facilities
Events and Venues
Gas Stations
Government
Parking Facilities
READY WHEN YOU ARE
Tell us how your facility runs, or request a security consultation and we will walk the dock with you. No obligation. We'll actually respond.
