Gatik becomes first U.S. company to use fully driverless trucks for commercial deliveries

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California-based Gatik announced it is the first company in the United States to deploy fully driverless trucks at scale in commercial operations.

The company said it has more than $600 million in contracted revenue and daily deliveries for Fortune 50 retailers using driverless freight-only trucks. With deliveries in Texas, Arkansas and Arizona, the announcement marks a new era for autonomous trucking, the company said.

“Autonomous trucking is no longer a promise. It’s a business,” Gautam Narang, CEO and co-founder of Gatik, said. “With more than $600 million in contracted revenue, Gatik has proved that autonomous trucking is not only possible but commercially viable, and the fierce demand for our solution reflects how quickly this new model will reshape the future of logistics. Today, we are operating fully driverless trucks across multiple logistics networks and markets, serving the largest retailers and CPG companies in the country. This consistency in real-world operations is a turning point for autonomous logistics.”

Since launching freight-only operations in mid-2025, Gatik has completed 60,000 fully driverless orders without incident. Officials with the company said the trucks have operated day and night on highways and surface streets. Using the company’s Gatik Driver, a safe, scalable and interpretable third-generation autonomous system combining state-of-the-art AI and purpose-built hardware that delivers high-frequency driverless performance in commercial operations.

To date, officials said, the company has logged more than 2,000 hours of driverless operation across multiple logistics networks, and completed more than 10,000 driverless miles on public roads on routes up to 400 miles connecting dense networks of distribution centers, warehouses, and retail stores.

The deliveries operate in the Dallas-Fort Worth region of Texas, the Phoenix Metro area in Arizona, and in Northwest Arkansas. Gatik’s 26- and 30-foot trucks run nearly 24 hours a day moving ambient, refrigerated, and frozen goods between distribution centers and stores. The company said it is preparing to expand driverless operations to new U.S. markets.