Kodiak recently announced publicly a project that I have been helping to lead for the better part of the year – driverless industrial trucking in the West Texas Permian Basin. We’ve partnered with Atlas Energy Solutions, a top purveyor of proppant, the sand necessary for oil fracking.
Don Burnette, our CEO, has consistently emphasized the necessity of Kodiak becoming a self-sustaining, revenue-generating business. Our industrial business, with companies like Atlas, will make that happen.
West Texas is a different environment than I-40 through urban East Texas. In many ways, the domain is simpler – slower speeds and less traffic. But there are new challenges, such as two-way bidirectional roads and intersections. Expanding the Kodiak Driver to this domain has been a lot of fun.
David Silver 