How’s this for a bit of irony—a company that runs trucks that can operate hands-free, striking a deal to deliver goods for a global retailer that specializes on furniture customers have to build themselves?
Just this past August Kodiak and the nation's largest travel center operator Pilot Companies announced a “strategic agreement” to develop services for self-driving trucks at Pilot and Flying J travel centers. The first such truckport to be built at a Pilot center near Atlanta.
“Hiring drivers is challenging for everyone including us. We have a very high standard. It's challenging finding drivers who want to drive long distances over the road in particular and that's specifically the market we're trying to address,” said Burnett. “The folks who come to work at Kodiak come here because they want to be part of a foundational change.”
“Our system could work with an electric powertrain, could work with a hydrogen powertrain we just don't have access to those technologies yet but they're coming soon and we'll definitely be looking to announce that in the future,” Burnette said.
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