A California-based autonomous trucking company will begin a Dallas route in partnership with century-old business equipment firm Pitney Bowes.
Gatik, which operates a hub in Fort Worth, Texas, signed a multi-year agreement with the Connecticut-based company known for its postage meters and other mailing equipment and services. Gatik wouldn’t disclose the routes it’ll travel for Pitney Bowes, but it recently began operating autonomous 26-foot box trucks to 34 Sam’s Club locations in Dallas-Fort Worth.
The company’s medium-duty self-driving box trucks will work in an operational loop across Pitney Bowes’ ecommerce logistics network in Dallas, making multiple deliveries a day beginning early next year. The goal is to speed deliveries and drive down transportation costs.
