Driverless Trucks Are Here. The Real Question Is Who Runs the Network Around Them

Autonomous trucking stopped being a science project this year.

A driverless truck excels at long, predictable highway miles between two fixed points, but freight does not start or end on the interstate.

The likely model is a hybrid network in which human drivers handle local pickups and deliveries while autonomous trucks run the long middle legs between transfer hubs.

None of that requires buying an autonomous truck, and all of it pays off with human drivers too.

Find the lane in your network where a driverless middle mile would matter most, because someone else is already looking for it.