Integrating Autonomy into the Heart of Trucking Operations
When people talk about autonomous trucking, the focus is usually on the driving—what the truck can see, how it stays in its lane, and what happens when the weather turns bad.
But for fleets, we believe the challenge runs deeper. Before a truck ever moves, it has to be assigned a load, dispatched, tracked, and managed as part of a broader system. That system is the Transportation Management System (TMS)—the central software every fleet uses to run its operation. And no two TMS setups are the same.
Some fleets build their own platforms. Others license off-the-shelf tools and customize them over time. Either way, TMS systems become deeply tailored to each fleet’s day-to-day operations. They're not something you can replace overnight or route around with a new technology.
That’s why Kodiak takes a partner-first approach.
Instead of asking Werner Enterprises to adopt new tools or workflows, we worked directly with their team to integrate the Kodiak Driver into their existing TMS—exactly as it was. The goal: make our autonomous truck behave like any other asset in their fleet. No special processes. No parallel systems. Just a virtual driver, fully visible and dispatchable inside the software they already rely on.
Our collaboration not only made it easier to manage autonomous trucks on Werner’s network—it proved what’s possible when autonomy fits the operation, not the other way around.
