Autonomous Trucks
The truckport will also serve as a pick up and drop off location for first- and last-mile deliveries before or after autonomous trucks handle the long-haul route. Autonomous truck tech company Kodiak Robotics has partnered with Pilot Company to open the first “autonomous truckport” at the Pilot Travel Center in Villa Rica, Georgia. The facility, just west of Atlanta, will be used by Kodiak to launch and land its autonomous trucks. Autonomous trucks then communicate the outcome of that inspection, as well as other relevant safety information, to roadside enforcement officers. The Villa Rica truckport will Kodiak’s 18,000-mile-long autonomous deployment network -- a set of mapped routes for self-driving trucks.