Martin Daum rarely equivocates. The CEO of Daimler Truck sets courses the trucking industry often follows. If you ask him a question, expect a straight answer. We did. And so did he.
When Martin Daum talks …Martin Daum is one of those people for whom a paraphrase of the famous line from the 1970s TV commercials by investment bank EF Hutton applies. When the CEO of Daimler Truck talks, the global trucking industry listens.
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Locomation, a leading provider of autonomous trucking technology solutions, today announced an eight-year agreement with Stevens Trucking Company of El Reno, Oklahoma, one of North America’s premier freight carriers. Locomation has previously signed contracts with Wilson Logistics, PGT Trucking, and Christenson Transportation. Stevens currently operates throughout the continental United States with its primary activity in Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio.
Using Locomation’s...
Daimler Truck is installing its own CEO to lead Torc Robotics, ending a 17-year era of Michael Fleming’s leadership. The move folds the independent subsidiary further into the world’s largest truck maker.
Peter Vaughan Schmidt, currently head of Daimler Truck’s Autonomous Technology Group, will become Torc CEO on Oct. 1, Daimler Truck and Torc said Thursday.
Fleming co-founded Torc in 2005 while a graduate student at Virginia Tech. It became part of Daimler in 2019 when the truck maker acquired a...
Aurora Innovation is adding freight giant Schneider to a growing list of fleets testing its Aurora Driver autonomous trucking software.
“Understanding more about an autonomous future is the logical next step to build a network that continues to deliver the best service for our customers,” Rob Reich, Schneider executive vice president and chief administrative officer, said in a press release.
Schneider (NYSE: SNDR) hauls 19,318 loads per day for America’s biggest companies covering more than 9.3...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/aurora-adds-schneider-to-autonomous-pilot-customer-list
Heavy traffic tied to the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles provided ideal conditions for showcasing the sophisticated capabilities of PlusDrive, a supervised autonomous trucking solution on display during ACT Expo, the nation’s premier transportation technology and clean fleet conference.
“We ran into trucks, containers and all kinds of traffic. We tested the merge and lane change features. They all worked well,” said one attendee who test drove a PlusDrive-equipped day cab during the...
Uber Freight and Waymo Via are working together to map out what widespread autonomous trucking will look like.
The digital freight broker and autonomous trucking software developer describe the partnership as a deep collaboration aimed at what Uber Freight head Lior Ron called the “democratization” of autonomy.
Most autonomous trucking today involves software developers testing their products with large fleets on interstates in the Southwest known for long, flat stretches of roads and favorable...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/uber-freight-and-waymo-via-envision-autonomous-trucking-for-all
Legacy trucking companies, once at the forefront of innovation, have fallen behind in the FreightTech arms race in recent years. Freight brokerages are now the trailblazers.
By implementing the latest visibility technologies, brokerages like Loadsmith are now confidently competing with the largest asset-based carriers.
“Digital freight matching and real-time rating and visibility — the greatest advancements in [freight] technology over the last five years — have not been developed by your...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/shippers-take-note-brokers-lead-the-freighttech-charge
While the industry takes steps toward autonomous trucking, Loadsmith is taking giant leaps.
With its sights set on becoming the first fully autonomous trucking company, Loadsmith is leaning further into capacity as a service to bolster its autonomous future.
The third-party logistics platform is taking its largest step yet, recently selecting Mastery Logistics’ MasterMind TMS to power its capacity-as-a-service platform. CEO Brett Suma said the partnership will be integral in equipping Loadsmith...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/loadsmiths-capacity-as-a-service-to-help-launch-autonomous-future
TuSimple Holdings shares, battered since announcing a sudden leadership change earlier in March, rebounded Wednesday after Reuters reported the autonomous truck developer may offload its autonomous trucking business in China.
TuSimple (NASDAQ: TSP), which leads the commercialization of autonomous trucking in the U.S., hasn’t talked much about its China business, which focused on deepwater ports near Shanghai. TuSimple is in talks to sell the unit for up to $1 billion, Reuters said, citing three...
Kodiak Robotics is hauling freight autonomously from Texas to Oklahoma City as part of a partnership with third-party logistics giant Ceva Logistics.
Other than test runs of watermelons that rival TuSimple delivered to the Sooner State from Arizona last May, Kodiak claims the first regular deliveries using autonomous trucks. And they come as Ceva, like other shippers, struggles to find enough drivers.
“At Ceva, we define innovation as the implementation of new ideas with business impact, and our...