Trucking is a big business with a great many operational challenges. Trucking firms and fleets deal with them every single day and there’s a lot of associated administrative overhead.
So it seems strange to me that startups have not tried to address these operational problems using AI.
This article presents some of what aifleet, a trucking firm with around 200 vehicles, is using to make trucking a better place to work.
Aifleet CEO El Khoury seems to me to be very farsighted, especially in the current state of innovation in trucking.
The new money flowing to AI in logistics seems to be going to applications relating to brokering. It is not going to routing and scheduling.
But it’s routing and scheduling where big efficiency gains can be made. It’s also where the lifestyle of truckers can be improved, an area many big carriers ignore. I think there would be easy pickings for AI-enhanced scheduling and routing practices. aifleet thinks the same.
John Kingston Friday, July 11, 2025
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