Driverless Truck Partnership Hits 50k Miles

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The August recruiting data reveals fewer people are actively looking truck driving jobs … but those that are looking are doing so with high intent. On the freight side of things the WoW numbers for loads and spot increased but still fall far short of YoY and 5-year averages. Plus we’ll talk to Jason Miller about the increase of containerized imports and what if anything that means for the economy moving forward.

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Driverless Trucking Program Hits 50,000 Miles

J.B Hunt Transport Services, Inc., Bridgestone Americas, and Kodiak Robotics launched a driverless truck partnership this past January. J.B. Hunt transports trailers to and from Bridgestone and Kodiak utilizing Kodiak’s autonomous driving technology for the 750 mile long-haul stretch of the weekly deliveries. The collaboration recently hit a milestone – logging over 50,000 driverless long-haul miles.