Walmart finds workaround for driver shortage
Story Date: 11/11/2021

 

Source: THE PRODUCE NEWS, 11/9/21


Walmart announced that Gatik, an autonomous trucking company, is operating daily without a safety driver behind the wheel on its delivery route for Walmart in Bentonville, AR, 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 one of the first times 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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