Kodiak signs first highway deal for 75 driverless trucks

Deliveries to DTL Transport are scheduled to start in 2028, adding an on-highway customer to Kodiak's asset-light model.

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Primary source: TechCrunch

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The 75-truck agreement gives Kodiak a customer-owned Driver-as-a-Service deployment on public highways. Deliveries are scheduled to start in 2028, and the contract value was not disclosed.

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Kodiak AI has signed its first binding commercial deal to supply driverless trucks for public highways, agreeing to deliver 75 vehicles to DTL Transport starting in 2028. For founder and CEO Don Burnette, the agreement is a step toward a business in which Kodiak sells autonomy to carriers instead of owning and operating their trucks, as [TechCrunch reported on October…

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