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Aurora Innovation launched its second-generation autonomous truck fleet on the International LT Series platform, rated for one million miles, with 30 trucks already running 20-plus hours daily in Texas commercial freight.
Pony.ai and GAC Commercial Vehicle debuted a Level 4 autonomous heavy truck at IAA 2026 with 70% lower hardware costs and 30% lower freight cost per ton-kilometer, targeting volume production before year-end.
PepsiCo deployed 41 fully driverless Gatik trucks in Arizona, Texas, and Arkansas to deliver Frito-Lay products to Walmart and Dollar General — the largest autonomous commercial delivery fleet in U.S. history, backed by a $600 million multiyear commitment.
At ACT Expo, leaders from Torc, Kodiak, and Gatik declared autonomous trucking has moved from proving technology to proving scale — with Gatik completing 60,000 driverless commercial orders for Walmart.
McLane Company, Berkshire Hathaway's $50 billion food distributor, is running Aurora Innovation's autonomous trucks on live freight routes across the Sun Belt — one of the largest Fortune 500 commercial autonomous vehicle commitments yet.
Goldman Sachs Research projects autonomous trucks will undercut human-driven freight on cost-per-mile by 2028, falling from $8.60/mile today toward $2/mile by 2035 — backed by commercial revenue data from Aurora, Kodiak, Gatik, and Bot Auto.
Goldman Sachs projects autonomous trucks will undercut the all-in cost of human-driven freight by 2028 — a crossover point that reshapes the economics of the entire trucking industry.
While autonomous trucks grab headlines, AI is already reshaping the $906 billion trucking industry at the operational layer — from freight brokerage automation to predictive maintenance.
Maas Auto completed a 3,379-km fully autonomous freight run from Long Beach to Georgia in three days — the world's longest self-driving freight haul, on the actual commercial supply chain.
Kodiak AI has launched its first driverless freight operations outside the Sun Belt, running autonomous trucks on Interstate 70 in Ohio and Indiana — one of North America's busiest freight corridors.
Kodiak AI deployed autonomous trucks on I-70 through Ohio and Indiana — the first driverless freight operation outside the Sun Belt and the most significant geographic proof point yet for commercial autonomous trucking.
Kodiak AI completed its first fully driverless freight runs in Ohio and Indiana via Interstate 70, proving autonomous trucks can operate in northern freight corridors beyond Sun Belt highways.