Kodiak and Ahead Air are ‘first’ to function a self-driving truck lane between Dallas and Atlanta 24/6
On Thursday, self-driving truck firm Kodiak Robotics, Inc. and Ahead Air introduced an settlement to function “autonomous freight service 24 hours per day, six days per week (24/6) between Dallas and Atlanta, making three spherical journeys weekly.”
Kodiak says that since August 2022, they’ve used autonomous truck expertise to ship greater than 100 hundreds for Ahead Air clients alongside the 800 mile freight lane between Dallas and Atlanta. Kodiak is making three journeys per week to ship freight in partnership with Ahead Air.
The businesses say that this makes them the “first” to function constant autonomous trucking providers between Dallas and Atlanta.
Kodiak says {that a} security driver workforce stays on board to supervise the self-driving operations.
Tom Schmitt, Chairman, President and CEO of Ahead Air stated, “To serve our clients, we at all times must be on the forefront of exploring rising applied sciences. Kodiak has earned an excellent status in protected autonomous trucking, and this collaboration permits us to discover potential advantages to our enterprise. Whereas we don’t see autonomous vans changing impartial contractor capability, this might doubtlessly be a scalable resolution for sure lanes in our community.”
“We’re proving out our enterprise mannequin by transferring time-sensitive freight throughout hundreds of miles and a number of hours of service by way of our collaboration with Ahead,” stated Don Burnette, Founder and CEO, Kodiak. “The tweener lane between Dallas and Atlanta is lengthy and troublesome to workers, so it completely illustrates how autonomous vans could make the provision chain extra environment friendly and resilient and complement our clients’ human pushed fleets. On the identical time, we’re showcasing the reliability and ruggedness of our autonomous system, which is ready to function for six days straight without having relaxation or recalibration—a big achievement.”
Kodiak has entered into comparable partnerships with different firms, together with IKEA, Werner Enterprises, U.S. Xpress, 10 Roads Specific and CEVA Logistics.
