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Ryder adds Kodiak Robotics to its autonomous trucking dance card

When it comes to autonomous trucks, Ryder System Inc. plays the field, forming — and sometimes ending — relationships with practically every startup contending for leadership in the medium- and heavy-duty driverless space.

Its first commercial partner appears to be Kodiak Robotics, which is paying for space at an existing Ryder maintenance facility in Houston. The truckport opened in December and enables Kodiak to launch and land autonomous trucks and transfer freight on routes between Houston,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ryder-adds-kodiak-robotics-to-its-autonomous-trucking-dance-card

Ryder acquires IFS to boost supply chain business

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Ryder System Inc. is acquiring Impact Fulfillment Services Holdings LLC, a contract packaging,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ryder-acquires-ifs-to-boost-supply-chain-business

Truck electrification is much more than picking a charger

You can buy a charger for an electric vehicle from any number of suppliers. But it’s an incomplete purchase without knowing when the charger is operating, how much juice it can put out at a given time and whether or not it’s occupied.

“The last conversation I’m having is ‘Let’s pick the right hardware, how to deploy it cost effectively, and let me help you operate it so you get the SLA (service life agreement) you want,” Rich Mohr, ChargePoint Holdings Inc. senior vice president for North...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-electrification-is-much-more-than-picking-a-charger

How soon will we see an autonomous trucking shakeout?

It is pretty much acknowledged across the trucking industry that a consolidation of players in autonomous trucking is coming. Money is tight. Borrowing is expensive. Share prices and corresponding book values are in the dumper. 

The coming shakeout

No single factor proves a shakeout among autonomous trucking players is coming. But an accumulation of evidence suggests that not all of today’s entrants will survive as independents.

PitchBook writes of mobility tech in its 2023 Industry and Technology...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-soon-will-we-see-an-autonomous-trucking-shakeout

Microsoft reportedly planning Gatik investment

In a tough fundraising environment for technology startups, Microsoft is reportedly nearing an investment in middle-mile autonomous trucking company Gatik.

Privately held Gatik, the middle-mile developer of autonomous trucking software, last raised $85 million in a Series B round in August 2021. Gatik’s Class 3-6 driverless box trucks operate revenue-generating routes in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Ontario, Canada.

Partnership would follow Gatik’s business model

Microsoft would invest $10...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/microsoft-reportedly-planning-gatik-investment

Ryder: State of the Industry January report

New year, same trends — freight demand is unlikely to taper in the first half of 2022. 

In its “State of the Industry” report for January, FreightWaves recaps Q4 and highlights the trends that are likely to have an impact in the first half of this year. Presented in affiliation with Ryder System Inc., the report dives into the trucking, intermodal and ocean markets and features FreightWaves SONAR data, highlighting key industry metrics to paint a clearer picture of the changing market.

Current...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ryder-state-of-the-industry-january-report

Study: Autonomous trucking transfer hubs promise huge cost savings

A Georgia Tech study funded by Ryder System Inc. suggests huge cost savings for autonomous trucks using a network of autonomous transfer hubs that gain efficiencies beyond avoiding the cost of pay and benefits for human drivers.

Ryder (NYSE: R) provided order data from its dedicated transportation solutions operation in the Southeast to researchers at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Miami-based Ryder has alliances with four...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/study-autonomous-trucking-transfer-hubs-promise-huge-cost-savings

Truck Talk: Delayed gratification edition

Tesla delays the Semi for a fourth time. Is Elon Musk losing his first-mover edge in electric trucks? Low-mileage used trucks are hard to get. So why are major players adding storefronts to sell them? And is that a transforming Mack Truck — or not?

Lost advantage or …

With its fourth delay to planned production in late 2023, a case can be made that the Tesla Semi electric truck is losing the first-mover advantage it claimed from its reveal in late 2017.

Or maybe not.

“If Tesla can make a 400- to...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-talk-delayed-gratification-edition

Ryder storms deeper into trucking autonomy in tie-up with Waymo Via

Ryder System, Inc. will provide maintenance for Waymo Via as the Google-backed autonomous driving software developer begins revenue-generating freight runs in Texas from a new transfer hub that Ryder helped design.

Miami-based Ryder (NYSE: R) also is working with Waymo Via rival TuSimple to share some of its 500 maintenance facilities to help TuSimple expand its autonomous freight network nationwide.

“The startups love to work with Ryder because we have this diversity,” Karen Jones, Ryder...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ryder-storms-deeper-into-trucking-autonomy-in-tie-up-with-waymo-via

Breakthroughs and misconceptions: 9 questions with ChargePoint’s Rich Mohr

Rich Mohr spent a quarter-century at Ryder System Inc. working to solve challenges for fleets, some of which they didn’t even know they had.

Earlier this year, Mohr took his talents from Miami to the West Coast, where he is helping newly public electric charging station manufacturer ChargePoint Holdings (NYSE: CHPT) figure out how to make fleets comfortable with moving to battery-powered trucks. For all the hype about the great electric truck migration, it’s not that easy.

At Ryder (NYSE: R),...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/breakthroughs-and-misconceptions-9-questions-with-chargepoints-rich-mohr

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