Gatik runs medium-duty box trucks with nobody on board on short regional routes between distribution centers and stores. As of October 2026, those driverless runs are in Dallas–Fort Worth, the Phoenix area and Northwest Arkansas, on highways and surface streets, day and night. Gatik doesn’t carry passengers or sell trucks to the public; retailers and consumer-goods companies hire it to move their own freight.
What makes Gatik different from long-haul autonomous trucks
Most self-driving truck companies, such as Aurora and Kodiak, focus on Class 8 tractor-trailers on long interstate runs. Gatik works the “middle mile”: 26- and 30-foot Isuzu box trucks that shuttle goods from a warehouse to stores on repeated routes of up to 400 miles. The same truck can back into a store’s dock, which a big rig often can’t.
Gatik calls its driverless mode “Freight-Only”: no safety driver and no observer in the cab. That’s a stricter setup than Waabi’s Texas runs, which still carry a person in the driver’s seat.
The numbers Gatik has published
From Gatik’s January 27, 2026 announcement, covering driverless operations since mid-2025:
- 60,000 fully driverless orders delivered, which Gatik says were completed without incident
- more than 2,000 driverless hours and more than 10,000 driverless miles on public roads
- ambient, refrigerated and frozen goods
- more than $600 million in contracted revenue
- driverless markets: Dallas–Fort Worth, Phoenix metro and Northwest Arkansas, with Nebraska and Ontario listed as other commercial markets
The release doesn’t give a fleet size or name its retail customers. Gatik also said independent testing and certification bodies reviewed its safety framework before launch, without naming them, and that it briefed FMCSA, NHTSA and state agencies in Texas, Arizona and Arkansas. These are company figures, not independent audits.
How the PepsiCo routes work
On June 8, 2026, PepsiCo and Gatik announced a driverless deployment, FreightWaves reported. The trucks run regional routes from PepsiCo distribution centers to about 250 retail locations, including Walmart and Dollar General stores, in Texas, Arizona and Arkansas. The two companies have worked together since 2022, with driver-out runs since June 2025.
No one drives these trucks remotely. Gatik’s remote supervisors make go and no-go calls, and one supervisor can watch several trucks, but they don’t steer or teleoperate.
How a company signs up
Gatik doesn’t publish rates or a self-serve booking option. Shippers contract with Gatik for recurring routes; the $600 million figure above is the value of those contracts. Gatik names Isuzu, NVIDIA and Ryder as partners. Driverless runs are limited to the markets listed above.
What’s planned
- More trucks: Gatik told FreightWaves it expects hundreds of trucks in 2026.
- Factory-built trucks: Isuzu plans mass production of autonomous-ready trucks at a South Carolina plant in the second half of 2027. Gatik says that could take it to tens of thousands of trucks, a target with no confirmed schedule.
- New markets: Gatik says it will expand driverless operations to more U.S. markets but hasn’t named them.
Gatik’s trucks run on its third-generation system, which it describes as SAE Level 4 within its mapped routes. For the difference between that and the driver-assist systems in consumer cars, see our guide to Mercedes Drive Pilot, a Level 3 system.