Kodiak Robotics, Forward Air begin Dallas-Atlanta autonomous runs

Kodiak Robotics and Forward Air Corp. are beginning thrice-weekly autonomous freight round-trip runs between Dallas and Atlanta using teams of safety drivers to comply with hours-of-service regulations that likely won’t apply to driverless trucks. Mountain View, California-based Kodiak expects to pull the driver on specific routes in 2024. But for now, the biggest cost of…

Food giants cash in on ‘pet parents’ buying gourmet meals for ‘fur babies’

As historic inflation slams the U.S., consumers are flocking to bad beer and Walmart-brand cream cheese. But retailers have noted one shockingly recession-proof category: pricey pet food. “People are more willing to down trade for themselves than they are to down trade for their children,” Hunter Williams, partner at consulting firm Oliver Wyman, told FreightWaves….

Ousted TuSimple co-founder says frustrated employees came to him

TuSimple co-founder Xiaodi Hou claims his forced resignation from the autonomous trucking software startup came in retaliation for refusing to support the compensation package for Cheng Lu, the CEO he pushed out a year ago but who was rehired in November. In a LinkedIn post, Hou claimed current and ex-employees of the autonomous trucking startup…

Amazon-funded startup tackles storage issue as key in hydrogen trucking

HOUSTON — Consensus in the hydrogen transportation ecosystem — is it too early to call it an industry? — can be hard to come by. When it comes to talking about hydrogen fueling trucks, the one widely held belief is the infrastructure challenges remain immense to allow it to be a reliable and extensively available…