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Gatik has completed more than 60,000 driverless orders for Walmart. Aurora is targeting 200 driverless trucks by year-end. A sweeping industry analysis shows the autonomous freight sector has passed the pilot phase — what is emerging is a layered AI stack across existing logistics infrastructure.
Parallel Systems reached $100 million in total funding and is moving to commercial operations in 2026 with autonomous battery-electric railcars running on existing freight infrastructure—targeting the drayage market overlooked by autonomous trucking.
Electric truck maker Harbinger acquired autonomous-driving startup Phantom AI, betting that combining EV powertrains with self-driving software positions it ahead of Goldman Sachs' projected 2028 cost-parity crossover.
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.
Volvo Autonomous Solutions and global logistics firm DSV have launched autonomous freight operations on the Dallas-to-Houston corridor in Texas, integrating Aurora's self-driving stack into commercial freight flows.
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.
Waabi is pursuing complete door-to-door autonomous trucking — urban streets, loading docks, depot operations — while Aurora and Kodiak stick to highways. The harder bet could win by capturing the full unit economics that highway-only autonomy cannot.
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.
Kodiak AI is actively hauling commercial freight for Roehl Transport on the Dallas-Houston corridor — four roundtrips per week — with fully driverless highway operations targeted by end of 2026.
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.
C.H. Robinson reports its AI agents have completed more than 3 million shipping tasks, while Aurora targets 200+ driverless trucks by year-end — marking the end of the pilot phase in freight AI.
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.
PlusAI and other autonomous trucking developers are signing operational contracts with freight carriers in 2026, moving from technology demonstration to commercial deployment in a sector valued at $575.7 million.
The autonomous freight industry has left the pilot phase. Aurora, Plus.ai, and Waabi are deploying driverless trucks at commercial scale across Sun Belt routes in 2026, marking the sector's first true mass-deployment phase.
Humble Robotics emerged from stealth with a $24M seed round and a ground-up cabless autonomous electric hauler targeting dock-to-dock freight on fixed routes — a narrower use case that may prove more deployable than general autonomous trucking.
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 completed its first autonomous trucking deployment outside the Sun Belt, operating driverless commercial trucks on Interstate 70 — one of North America's busiest freight corridors.
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.