Kodiak Robotics
The program highlights the potential of autonomous trucking in the real world and eliminates inspections as a hurdle to widespread autonomous vehicle adoption within the trucking industry.

CVSA and Kodiak remove autonomous trucking’s inspection hurdle

Aug. 26, 2024
The autonomous trucking company is the first to pilot the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s ‘enhanced inspection’ program to ensure self-driving trucks and their trailers are road-safe.

Partnering with law enforcement and another transportation technology company, Kodiak Robotics said it successfully conducted 1,000 equipment inspections over 12 months to demonstrate an inspection system for humanless trucks.

Using the Drivewyze fleet technology platform to capture inspection results, Kodiak, a pioneer in autonomous trucking operations, and the Texas Department of Transportation conducted a pilot program of heavy autonomous truck inspections using the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s new Enhanced Commercial Motor Vehicle Inspection program.

The program highlights the potential of autonomous trucking in the real world and eliminates inspections as a hurdle to widespread autonomous vehicle adoption within the trucking industry. 

“The CVSA’s enhanced inspection program lays a strong foundation for autonomous truck safety that has the potential to help raise standards across the trucking industry and make Texas highways safer,” Captain Bart Teeter, Texas Department of Public Safety, said. 

See also: Trucking’s ‘driverless’ era revs up

Kodiak’s AV inspection pilot results 

See also: The current state of autonomous trucking

How the CVSA conducts enhanced inspections 

About the Author

Jade Brasher

Senior Editor Jade Brasher has covered vocational trucking and fleets since 2018. A graduate of The University of Alabama with a degree in journalism, Jade enjoys telling stories about the people behind the wheel and the intricate processes of the ever-evolving trucking industry.    

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