TuSimple will focus on perfecting its core autonomous trucking technology on the middle mile while it relies on partners for other aspects of the technology and services required.
Isuzu trucks will install technology from autonomous vehicle startup Gatik on its medium-duty N-Series truck models.
As the number of places where product flows increases, naturally, smaller, more frequent inventory replenishment runs are created. Whether it’s middle-mile solutions from DC to store or DC to DC or it’s home delivery, the location of endpoints is dispersing and the size of shipments is decreasing.
Autonomous vehicle startup Gatik has announced it will deploy electric trucks as part of its autonomous testing in New Orleans with partner Walmart.
Speaking at the FreightWaves Cold Chain Summit, Gatik’s head of operations Sam Saad said the company is moving closer to having truly driverless vehicles on roadways by next summer.
Pilot in partnership with Gatik will run robovans on a two-mile route between a distribution center and retail store in Arkansas.
Changing distribution patterns could spell trouble for intermodal, report says.
