Autonomy
200 autonomous trucks is a dispatch problem in disguise
Autonomy has left the pilot phase. The bottleneck is the operational plane: dispatch, routing, settlement around the driverless truck.
The infrastructure of driving
Notes from the operation plane
Our view on autonomy, routing, payments and compliance, written from where freight actually runs, with links to the sources.
Autonomy
An autonomous-truck permit is an identity problem
Autonomy's real permission slip is the registry that makes permits verifiable, for the truck, the operator, the insurer, the state.
Routing
Google is entering truck routing. That's good news.
Better maps help. The load, the price and the margin still decide which route actually makes money.
Payments
The best owner-operator bookkeeping never has to happen
Bookkeeping as archaeology is a failure of the operation plane. Book revenue and costs at the event, not at month-end.
Logistics
Trade rules change. The ledger that settles the trip doesn't.
When tariffs shift, the system re-prices the next trip instead of re-papering the last one.
Compliance
28,000 revoked CDLs and the case for a registry of record
Licenses, certs and records sit in different drawers. One verifiable registry fixes the gaps where revocation and fraud hide.
Compliance
The court said no to a data grab. The industry needs proofs, not copies.
You don't need all the records to check a license. Issuer-controlled data plus verifiable proofs is the sustainable model.
Fleet operations
An electric fleet is a scheduling problem
The battery is a fuel tank with a schedule. Plan charging like a dock window.
Compliance
When a state digitizes the permit, the lane gains data
A paper office that becomes a data service is the direction of the whole industry.
Payments
Cost is an event, not a month-end number
Book cost at the event and the ledger closes the book, no month-end archaeology.
Compliance
The records are the infrastructure
Don't ask the driver to be honest; make the infrastructure honest.