Maybe one day your pallets and boxes of new-in products will price, dispatch and deliver themselves to the next distribution hub or store while you attend to more value-added tasks. The Uber-like efficiency of such a seemingly sci-fi-esque reality might not be so far out in the future if you look at what’s happening today in the rapidly developing driverless trucking field. Starsky Robotics, which earlier this summer landed the industry’s first fully unmanned driverless trucking test on a closed seven-mile stretch of Florida highway, announced Thursday that, together with digital freight broker Loadsmart, it had dispatched a driverless truck to haul cargo—with no human intervention involved in the process. Powered by artificial intelligence-based pricing and load matching technology, Loadsmart handled pricing, tendering and booking the freight job, which a Starsky autonomous truck picked up and hauled to its destination. Key to this milestone is Starsky’s newly launched Hutch API, which made the seamless Loadsmart integration possible. “Autonomous vehicles play an integral role in our vision of delivering end-to-end automated shipping and logistics services,” Loadsmart CEO Ricardo Salgado noted. Working with Starsky, he said, will help Loadsmart leap to the “forefront of providing our clients with access to cutting-edge technology so they can advance their supply chain.” Hailing the fully digital end-to-end process achieved with Loadmart, Starsky CEO Stefan Seltz-Axmacher said, “the advances that seem obvious for the ride-sharing services are coming to trucking” for the first time ever. “It’s not uncommon for a traditional trucking company to have five full-time employees involved in dispatching each truck for each load,” Seltz-Axmacher explained. “By integrating e-brokers like Loadsmart, we are eliminating all back office human intervention and making the shipment process seamless, while focusing on ensuring the safety of driverless trucks. With Starsky’s Hutch API…we will be able to autonomously dispatch