Driverless trucking’s carriers start to sign – next test: which signatures bind

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Autonomous-trucking companies are moving from feasibility discussions toward carrier commitments, but the deals differ in how binding they are. Kodiak has a binding agreement for 75 trucks, while Aurora’s plans for 1,000 remain non-binding and depend on production, financing, driver economics, and federal regulation.

A month after the debate started shifting from whether a truck can drive itself to whether the business can scale, carriers are committing to own driverless trucks themselves: Kodiak has a binding agreement for 75 trucks, Aurora non-binding plans covering 1,000. Turning those plans into trucks depends on production keeping pace, cash lasting until it does, and a per-mile split that rising driver pay and a pending federal rulebook are ... The post Driverless trucking’s carriers start to sign – next test: which signatures bind appeared first on The Loadstar.