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.