Autonomous vehicles for B2B short-haul logistics, Gatik, Palo Alto, California, USA

Gatik, a Palo Alto-based startup developing autonomous vehicles for business to business short-haul logistics, has launched a new platform to serve the supply chain’s so-called middle mile – the autonomous box truck.

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Gatik is operating daily deliveries without a safety driver behind the wheel on its delivery route for Walmart in Bentonville, Arkansas, moving customer orders between a Walmart dark store and a Neighborhood Market in its fleet of multi-temperature autonomous box trucks. Gatik’s deployment with Walmart in the state represents the first time that an autonomous trucking company has removed the safety driver from a commercial delivery route on the middle mile anywhere in the world.

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Gatik’s class 6 autonomous box trucks will deliver goods to Sam’s Club locations
in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex to enhance service levels and product flow
within the Georgia-Pacific-KBX on-road transportation network. The operations represent the first time that class 6 autonomous box trucks have been
deployed to disrupt short-haul logistics networks traditionally involving class 8 trucks.

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Gatik’s fully driverless deployment represents the first time that an autonomous trucking company has removed the safety driver from a daily delivery route in Canada, unlocking the true advantages of autonomous delivery for Loblaw’s customers. Autonomous delivery enables Loblaw to operate more routes and make more frequent trips, establishing a supply chain that is safer, more sustainable and more resilient.

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