TIRpark vs Rig Hut
Rig Hut and TIRpark attack the same problem, a truck yard run on paper and trust, from opposite ends. Rig Hut is a cloud operating system for gated yards: cameras read plates, gates open from drivers' phones, bookings and payments flow through the platform. TIRpark is a phone-first system for attendant-run yards: the attendant's Android is the camera, the gate book and the register, and it keeps working with no internet. Both are honest tools. Which one fits depends on what your yard actually looks like.
Rig Hut fits when
- Your yard has, or is getting, IP cameras and a mechanized gate
- You want online booking, a branded reservation site and marketplace demand
- Customers pay by card or ACH through a platform, not in cash
- You want dynamic pricing and fleet invoicing handled for you
- Reliable internet at the yard is a given
TIRpark fits when
- An attendant, not a gate arm, runs your yard
- Part of the money arrives as cash and you need it traceable to a person
- The site has weak or no connectivity, or no power at the entrance
- You want to start today with zero hardware and a free first month
- You need the record and the billing more than you need booking demand
Side by side
| Rig Hut | TIRpark | |
|---|---|---|
| Runs on | Cloud platform + IP cameras + smart gate hardware | One Android phone |
| Plate recognition | Via connected IP cameras (RH Vision) | On the phone, from a photo, offline |
| Works offline | Not advertised; cloud-based | Yes; syncs when signal returns |
| Cash workflow | Not advertised; card/ACH through the platform | Cash and card, every payment under an attendant PIN |
| Attendant accountability | Not advertised; the model centers on automation | Per-person PINs, per-shift totals, patrol audits |
| Online booking / demand | Yes: white-label booking site, marketplace, AI phone agent | No; pairs fine with a marketplace for demand |
| Gate access control | Yes: gate access tied to payment status | No gate needed; control lives in the record |
| Dynamic pricing | Yes, occupancy-based rate rules | No; you set the rates |
| Pricing | Not published; demo-based sales | First month free, then one subscription per lot |
| Time to start | Onboarding plus camera/gate integration | Install the app, set rates, check in the next truck |
Two different bets on what a yard is
Rig Hut was founded by operators who ran third-party truck parking facilities, and it shows: the product formalizes a yard into something closer to self-storage, where software, cameras and a smart gate replace day-to-day human presence. Plates are read by connected IP cameras, drivers open the gate from their phones, access is granted while the account is paid and revoked when it is not, and a branded booking site plus marketplace listings bring demand. Its public materials describe dynamic pricing that adjusts rates as occupancy climbs, multi-tenant fleet invoicing, and a 24/7 AI phone agent that takes bookings.
TIRpark makes the opposite bet: that a large share of real yards are, and will stay, attendant-run, cash-accepting and unevenly connected, and that the leverage is not removing the human but making the human auditable. The attendant photographs each truck, the plate reads on the device, the day bills on a sliding 24-hour window from arrival, debt sticks to the plate, and every payment carries the PIN of the person who took it. No cameras, no gate, no internet required.
Where Rig Hut is genuinely strong
If your yard is gated, wired and card-based, or you are building toward that, Rig Hut's integration story is real: access control tied to payment status closes the classic hole where an unpaid truck keeps re-entering on a shared gate code, and the booking layer solves demand, which no record-keeping tool does. A large facility formalizing fleet contracts will also value platform invoicing and occupancy-driven pricing.
The costs of that model are structural, not flaws: it presupposes camera and gate hardware, connectivity, and payments routed through the platform, and pricing is quoted through a sales process rather than published. For a gravel lot with one attendant and a cash box, that is a lot of machinery in front of the actual job.
Where TIRpark is genuinely strong
TIRpark's edge is the environment most software ignores: the yard with no power at the entrance, patchy LTE, a night attendant, and money that partly arrives as paper. Recognition runs on the phone, so check-in, billing and payments continue with zero connectivity and sync later. Cash gets what it almost never gets, attribution: per-attendant PINs, live per-shift totals, and a patrol mode that reconciles what is standing on the ground against the record.
What TIRpark does not do is bring you customers or open a gate. If online booking demand is the bottleneck, a marketplace solves that, and it combines cleanly with TIRpark keeping the ground record; if a smart gate is the plan, Rig Hut is the more natural fit.
Descriptions of Rig Hut reflect its public materials as of July 2026 and may change; verify details with the vendor. Rig Hut is a trademark of its owner. TIRpark is not affiliated with Rig Hut.
Try the phone-first side of the table
TIRpark's first month is free, with no card and nothing to install, so the cheapest way to settle this comparison is one real shift on your own yard.
