Autonomous Trucks
One such organization is the Nawiinginokiima Forest Management Corporation (NFMC), the Sustainable Forest License (SFL) holder for the Pic and White River Forest Management Units in Ontario. One of the NFMC’s goals is to manage the forest according to their forest management plan. The company will be providing the software and hardware technology for a pilot project testing the use of autonomous logging trucks. Notarbartolo believes that other sawmills and forest management companies should look into autonomous trucks as a possible solution to the driver shortage. In fact, the NFMC might turn its attention to testing autonomous harvesting once the current pilot project is finished, he says.