01 / On-site
Security guard services
A uniformed officer on post at your Gilroy property, keeping the door, the lot and the visitor log in hand.
View detailsWarehouses and distribution
Warehouse security
in Gilroy.
Warehouse security guards for Gilroy distribution centers and truck yards: gate check-in, dock and yard rounds, and coverage that follows your shifts.
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What we cover.
Gilroy sits right on the Highway 101 corridor, and the warehouses on the south end of town move freight at every hour. Trailers stage in the yard overnight, drivers arrive early and late, and a shift change can put dozens of people through the gate in a few minutes.
A gate officer can log drivers, trailers and visitors so you always know who is on the property. Between shifts and overnight, rounds of the docks, yard and fence line cover everything parked outside. On larger yards, live camera monitoring watches ground that would take several officers to walk, with patrol cars for anything that needs a person.
Services
Services for this property type
02 / Patrol
Mobile patrol
Marked patrol cars checking your Gilroy property at unpredictable times all night.
View details03 / Video
Remote video monitoring
Your current cameras watched live during the hours your Gilroy property sits empty.
View details04 / Armed
Armed security guards
Armed officers for Gilroy sites holding cash, valuable stock or equipment that keeps drawing attention.
View detailsShift change at the gate
The busiest few minutes at a distribution building are often the shift change. Workers coming and going, a couple of trucks waiting, a visitor looking for the office. A gate officer keeps track of who comes through, checks drivers against the day’s schedule and keeps the line moving so nobody slips in with the crowd.
Overnight in the yard
Once the building closes, the yard is where the value sits: loaded trailers, empty trailers waiting for pickup, pallets, forklifts and fuel. Patrol officers check that ground on every stop and log each check with the time.
For a large yard, live camera monitoring fills the hours between stops. When a monitor sees movement, a patrol officer goes to look and the event shows up in your morning report. Our guide to securing a warehouse yard overnight walks through seals, lighting and fence checks step by step.
When a sprinkler line is drained
High racking and sprinklers go together, and when a sprinkler line is drained for repair, a warehouse often needs someone walking the aisles until it is back. Fire watch for the outage can be added to an existing plan the same week, with its own timed log.
Reports your operations manager will use
Each morning the report lists every patrol stop and gate entry with its time, plus anything found open, damaged or out of place. When the same dock door keeps turning up unlatched or the same corner of the fence keeps getting tested, the pattern is right there in writing, and you can fix it before it costs you a trailer load.
Docks, forklifts and equipment after hours
An overnight officer at a warehouse checks more than the fence. Dock levelers should be stowed and the dock doors down and locked, forklifts and pallet jacks parked at their chargers, and yard tractors left where the last driver parked them. Each check goes into the log, so the morning crew starts from a known state instead of a guess.
Where a full night post is more than the building needs, patrol stops after hours run the same checklist on a randomized schedule.
Warehouse security costs in Gilroy
Warehouse posts in Gilroy typically run $40 to $48 an hour on published 2026 rates, from $36 for a simple gate post to $50 for busy yards with trailer checks and tight dock procedures. Trucks on the Highway 101 corridor arrive early and late, so gate hours often run longer than the office day.
Take a cross-dock with a gate officer from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday, 72 hours a week. At $46 an hour, that’s $3,312 a week. Instead of a second overnight officer, five randomized patrol stops a night check the dock doors, the trailer rows and the fence, and every stop shows up in the morning log. Sites running a night shift, staging dozens of trailers or holding high-value loads move toward the top of the range, and armed officers can be added.
A few useful answers
Common questions
Can your gate officer log trailers in and out?
Yes. Drivers and trailer numbers are recorded at the gate.
Can coverage follow our shift schedule?
Yes. Hours are set around your shifts and can change month to month.
How do you cover a large truck yard overnight?
With patrol visits, a posted officer or live camera monitoring, matched to the size of the yard.
Do officers check forklifts and dock doors overnight?
Yes. Dock doors, levelers, forklifts and yard tractors are on the round, and anything out of place is noted with a photo in your morning email.
Can patrol check trailer seals overnight?
Yes. Officers look over seals, doors and hitches on trailers parked in the yard and note anything that looks tampered with.
Can you cover a warehouse with nobody on the gate after hours?
Yes. Patrol visits, camera monitoring and alarm response together cover a site that has no gate staff overnight.
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