The Autonomous Trucks Are Coming for the Lane, Not Necessarily for Your Business

CDL & Trucking News · · Source: FreightWaves · By Adam Wingfield · 6 min read at the source

Driverless trucks are taking over the middle mile, but every lane they run still needs a carrier on both ends of it. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)
Driverless trucks are taking over the middle mile, but every lane they run still needs a carrier on both ends of it. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)

If you’ve spent the last year watching driverless trucks rack up miles on the lanes you used to run and felt something between anger and dread, that reaction is fair, it’s shared by most of the industry, and it isn’t paranoia, because the deployment timeline that always seemed to sit five years out has quietly […]

Reported by Adam Wingfield for FreightWaves (Fleet and Maintenance), originally published October 6, 2026.

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Topics: Fleet and Maintenance, Playbook: Equipment, Maintenance & Tech, The Future of Freight

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