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Autonomous truck developers are trying to figure out what a proposed ban on Chinese components will mean to them.

The lanes are getting longer for autonomous trucks and the promise of greater profitability is predicted to follow.

Driverless truck developers are looking to third-party validators to back their safety claims.

A second Trump presidency could mean drastic course changes for DOT truck policy if the administration embraces recommendations in The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025.

J.B. Hunt announced the completion of 50,000 autonomous long-haul trucking miles in a collaboration with autonomous trucking company Kodiak Robotics and Bridgestone Americas.

J.B. Hunt and autonomous truck maker Kodiak Robotics have executed more than 50,000 accident-free miles on a long-haul lane between Bridgestone facilities.

Kodiak Robotics is delaying commercial on-highway driverless trucks to focus on autonomy in the Permian Basin.

Perpetually troubled electric van maker Workhorse Group may be in worse shape than it appears. Little cash and slack orders are two factors.

Autonomous trucking regulation is already a state-by-state issue. In California, it may become a community-by-community matter.

Natural gas may be having a moment as an alternative fuel for trucking, but there are a few nagging questions.

Natural gas, battery and fuel cell electric vehicles all vie to displace diesel. Which will win? Maybe all of them.

The arcade game Whac-A-Mole describes state-by-state approach to rules of the driverless road while 50-state solution appears far off.

Ryder System is leasing space at a Houston maintenance facility to Kodiak Robotics for driverless truck operations.

Kodiak Robotics showed its 6th-generation autonomous truck that will begin hauling freight without a driver in Texas later this year.

Nikola is finally putting its fuel cell electric truck in the hands of retail customers like Bill Hall of Coyote Container.

Three companies departed autonomous trucking in 2023 as Aurora Innovation, Kodiak Robotics and Torc Robotics staked leadership claims.

The financial freezeout of startups by investors may be thawing as FOMU — the fear of messing up — begins to subside.

Working under a U.S. Army contract, Kodiak Robotics showed a prototype of its light-duty autonomous application in a Ford F-150 pickup.

Uber Freight has more than 100 shipper companies lined up to run autonomous freight, but the capacity just doesn’t exist yet.

Who is leading, following, emerging or out of the game in autonomous trucking? Here’s an assessment of shifts among the players.

Aurora Innovation opened its Interstate 45 autonomous trucking route between Dallas and Houston as unease and criticism grow.

Can Outrider hold onto its healthy lead in distribution yard autonomy as competition begins to form?

California Gov. Gavin Newsom sided with autonomous technology developers over organized labor and his own party in vetoing AB 316.

The timing in promoting its growing patent portfolio could suggest TuSimple is trying to find a buyer for its U.S. business.

The governor of California appears to favor supporting autonomous trucking technology over labor objections.

On Thursday, self-driving trucking company Kodiak Robotics and Pilot Co. opened their first truckport for autonomous vehicles at the Pilot Travel Center in Villa Rica, Georgia. According to the news release, the truckport will be used by Kodiak to launch and land its autonomous trucks and serve as a hub for drivers to pick and drop off loads for first- and last-mile deliveries.

Could Kodiak leverage some of the work Navistar has in on a redundant chassis for a Class 8 autonomous truck?

The future of Waymo Via had been whispered about for months after parent Alphabet Inc. cut thousands of jobs across the company earlier this year.

Seeking clues in TuSimple’s delayed financials; a case for an autonomous trucking slowdown; and Kodiak Robotics’ dual-use approach to autonomy.

The autonomous industry’s losing streak is growing as Teamsters-backed legislation passes committee after committee in California.

Kodiak Robotics and Drivewyze are working with Texas authorities to make it easier for autonomous trucks to bypass weigh stations.

Losers among transportation startups are rapidly being defined, It will take longer to determine the winners.

Consulting firm Kearney recently released its 34th annual Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) report, “State of Logistics 2023: The Great Reset.” A major theme of the report is the great rebalancing from the carrier-dominated market of the past two years to a shipper-focused one as freight volumes fell against a backdrop of higher truckload capacity. The report notes that total U.S. logistics costs rose 19.6% in 2022 to a record $2.3 trillion or 9.1% of U.S. gross domestic product.

After originally working with TuSimple, Loadsmith picks Kodiak Robotics for autonomous driving systems.

Kodiak Robotics bought a Peterbilt Model 579EV to marry its autonomous system with electric propulsion. It is using the truck in testing.

Kodiak has taken big steps along its commercialization journey with new carrier partnerships and advancements in its self-driving trucking technology.

One of the drawbacks of hydrogen adoption as a transportation fuel is the lack of infrastructure. Guess what? A network of hydrogen fueling already exists.

Driverless trucks have special needs that only humans can perform at terminals where they will drop and hook loads.

Lidar maker Ouster sued Chinese rival Hesai alleging patent infringement, a situation the company has experienced as a defendant.

Kodiak Robotics was shooting for easier maintenance of its autonomous trucks but it made them appear more normal in the process.

Federal guidance from 2019 suggested driverless trucks could skip electronic logging devices. Will that hold up?

Autonomous trucking runs are getting longer and more frequent as Kodiak Robotics and Forward Air begin thrice-weekly Dallas-to-Atlanta roundtrips.

How confident is Kodiak Robotics of the safety of its autonomous system? How about cutting a sensor cable while the truck is running?

Nikola customers will test Plus autonomy on the startup’s battery and fuel cell electric trucks this year and make it standard in 2024.

James Reed is the new COO at autonomous truck startup Kodiak Robotics, possessing tech credentials unrivaled among trucking executives.

As valuations of SPAC-backed startups plummet, one autonomous trucking developer that avoided the FOMO and stayed private is thriving.

It is pretty much acknowledged across the trucking industry that a consolidation of players in autonomous trucking is coming.

Microsoft Corp. is reportedly near an investment in Gatik, the middle-mile autonomous trucking startup.

From a Netflix-worthy docudrama at TuSimple to dueling technology announcements, autonomous trucking took steps toward commercialization.

CEO and founder Don Burnette says “2022 stood as the year that Kodiak really built momentum and gained the trust of the industry.”

It is not exactly a fundraising round, but Kodiak Robotics is generating $49.9 million in autonomous work for the U.S. Army

Separar los problemas de la comercialización de camiones autónomos es cada vez más difícil

The Wall Street Journal reports multiple federal probes of TuSimple’s China dealings after a watchdog set up oversight in February.

One of the most interesting takeaways in the chart above details how traditional freight brokerages that have built and marketed their own apps have taken the lead in downloads over third-party load boards.

Kodiak Robotics and Werner Enterprises completed a 152-hour autonomous freight trucking pilot between Dallas and Lake City, Florida.

How is it that California, the world’s fifth-largest economy and the state most autonomous trucking startups call home, refuses to allow commercial testing of the technology?

Los impactos del frenesí del SPAC y las actualizaciones tecnológicas, a debate el miércoles

The second FreightWaves Autonomous and Electric Vehicles Summit will feature leaders in autonomy and all things electrification.

Kodiak Robotics snagged a strategic investment and is developing an autonomous truck service project with Pilot Co.

Kodiak Robotics is taking a simpler approach to mapping highways for autonomy, focusing on connectivity over detail

Some free money from California to buy down the cost of electric trucks remains, but you better hurry to apply.

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Con un tercer socio, el transportista apuesta por la tecnología para paliar la escasez de conductores

U.S. Xpress is tripling down on autonomy, adding Kodiak Robotics to pilots with Embark Trucks and TuSimple.

As robots take over for human drivers, will they raise or lower the risk of tire blowouts that claim dozens of lives in truck crashes every year?

Truck Tech is a weekly newsletter providing perspective and context on autonomy, electrification and other technologies impacting the fleet ecosystem.

Truck Tech is a weekly newsletter providing perspective and context on autonomy, electrification and other technologies impacting the fleet ecosystem.

Startup Kodiak Robotics is the first to run regular autonomous loads to Oklahoma in a partnership with Ceva Logistics.

Kodiak Robotics CEO Don Burnette says asset utilization is the big promise of autonomous trucks now testing mostly in the southwest U.S.

After moving packages for UPS in converted Chrysler Pacificas, Waymo Via is applying its latest autonomous system to Class 8 trucks in Texas.

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Embark Trucks rings the Nasdaq bell to begin public trading Thursday, but early share redemptions in its SPAC merger cut proceeds by $300 million.

Autonomous trucking software developer Kodiak Robotics raises $125 million in new capital after passing on going public via SPAC.

The Plus supervised autonomy system differs Level 4 testing by competitors, but it puts some automated driving functions within reach of fleets faster.

New-generation autonomous trucks are losing their Frankenstein’s monster image thanks to better-packaged technology designs.

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Truck Talk is a weekly newsletter that offers perspective and context on news in the trucking industry.

Aurora Innovation gets a $10.6 billion enterprise value, the second highest of four autonomous driving software developers seeking to go public.

Kodiak Robotics co-founder and CEO Don Burnette explains why the development of autonomous trucking is poised to leap from the experimentation phase to a viable commercial product during the Autonomous & Electric Vehicles Summit.

Embark Trucks plans to go public at a $5.16 billion valuation with sponsorship by the special purpose acquisition company that backed Lion Electric.

Level setting the descriptions of autonomous vehicles gets simpler as industry coalesces around two main identifiers.

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Bridgestone invests in Kodiak Robotics and sees tire data sharing improving safety of autonomous trucks.

Kodiak Robotics strikes a partnership with South Korea’s SK conglomerate to move its autonomous trucking software to Asia.

Driver surveillance surfaces as a potential downside at a vehicle automation hearing.

Forget the autonomous trucking horse race, Wall Street and competitors are fixated on TuSimple’s “driver-out” pilot in Q4.

Self-driving truck software maker Plus signed its long-rumored SPAC with $500 million cash and $3.3 billion valuation expected in Q3.

Kodiak Robotics claims the best autonomous trucking software. But the startup trails the sector’s big names in both money and partners.

With TuSimple going public by IPO, a new report says rival autonomous trucking software developer Plus will soon follow via SPAC.

In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, could an influx of capacity drive down spot rates? Plus, ArcBest President Tim Thorne is retiring, and federal regulators consider nixing a vision exemption for CDL holders.

DOT Chief Elaine Chao announced a plan for autonomous vehicles on her last day at the department.

Kodiak Robotics, one of a handful of startups aiming to automate commercial trucking, has successfully completed “disengage-free” deliveries on a 205-mile stretch of Texas highway.

Waymo joins a growing number of driverless tech firms locating facilities or freight operations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including Aurora, Nuro, Kodiak Robotics and TuSimple.

TuSimple, Kodiak Robotics among the recipients of PPP loans. (Photo credit: Kodiak Robotics)

The company is one of three autonomous trucking startups to voluntarily describe how it is developing and applying AV technology

Dennis Mooney will help the startup commercialize autonomous trucks

Ike has laid off 14% of its staff

Sources say TQL postponed the start date of nearly 200 of its 400 new hires, citing the economic downturn and COVID-19.

Kodiak Robotics, the Mountain View, California-based autonomous trucking company, has laid off about 20% of its staff, The Information reported Thursday, raising new questions about the ability of autonomous trucking […]