Kodiak

Kodiak just signed a deal to haul freight for IKEA in our self-driving trucks! At Forbes, Ed Garsten has a great article situating this latest news in the context of Kodiak’s ever-expanding commercial business, hauling freight coast-to-coast. Kodiak has been on a roll. One of the overlooked aspects of a big win like this is just how much it says about Kodiak’s ability to work with large multinational corporations. Companies like IKEA take their responsibilities to stakeholders — workers, communities, vendors — seriously. These companies typically have a deep set of partner requirements that new partners like Kodiak must meet. Kodiak’s ability to qualify to carry freight for IKEA speaks volumes about the robustness of our performance.

Kodiak Partners with Werner. The latest in a series of partnerships Kodiak has signed to haul freight for major industry shippers. CEO Don Burnette in the New York Times. Don discusses where Kodiak is on the road to autonomy, and why trucking is such a good domain for driverless automation. …

Kodiak just announced its longest delivery run to-date: 5,600 miles from Texas to California to Florida and back to Texas. The route was part of the kick-off of a partnership with 10 Roads, a freight carrier for high-priority USPS parcels. One of Kodiak’s advantages is a lightweight process for building highway maps, that allows Kodiak to map highways for autonomous driving after a single human-driven run. That scalability enabled us to quickly prepare the entire round-trip, coast-to-coast route.

Last week, TechCrunch+ (paywall) interviewed Kodiak CEO Don Burnette. Months ago, when I was deciding whether to I join Kodiak, I spent an hour and a half on the phone with Don. We went over a lot of the same questions that wound up in this interview. …

I joined Kodiak to work on self-driving trucks! I’m so excited to be here 😊 🚛 Last week was my start, and I’m already riding along in the truck and kicking off projects on new and exciting problems. Kodiak has quietly been building an impressive operation tackling middle mile freight…

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Kodiak Island, Afognak Island bigger neighbor, is roughly the size of Connecticut, and is known as The Island Terrific in the North Pacific. The second largest island in the United States, it is exceeded only by the island of Hawaii. …

As a Youth Conservation Corps crew member I have been given the opportunity to connect myself and others with nature. . Here is my story. Over my 16 years of life I have only ever lived on Kodiak Island and have had many opportunities to discover and experience all that…