Gatik is building driverless freight trucks into retail supply routes

Gatik said on January 27, 2026 that it had deployed fully driverless trucks for commercial deliveries at scale. The same release reported $600 million in contracted revenue, giving the company a stronger commercial anchor than a limited autonomy demonstration.

Since freight-only operations began in mid-2025, Gatik reported 60,000 fully driverless orders without incident, more than 2,000 driverless operating hours, and more than 10,000 driverless miles. Those figures put the story inside daily middle-mile freight, not a one-route proof drive.

Gatik operates in the Dallas-Fort Worth region, the Phoenix Metro area, and Northwest Arkansas. Its 26-foot and 30-foot trucks carry ambient, refrigerated, and frozen goods between distribution centers and stores, with some routes extending up to 400 miles across highways and surface streets.

Gatik was founded by Gautam Narang, Arjun Narang, and Apeksha Kumavat with a focus on B2B middle-mile logistics. That narrower market choice is central: fixed retail supply routes can build repeatability faster than open-ended consumer robotaxi service, while still demanding real highway and street autonomy.

The competitive field includes Kodiak, Aurora, Waabi, Torc Robotics, Nuro?s logistics history, Einride, Plus, and human middle-mile carriers. Gatik?s distinction is commercial route specificity: customer supply chains, repeat lanes, and refrigerated or ambient retail goods rather than broad long-haul trucking first.

Public material does not show route-level margin, customer-level order count, route cancellation rate, contract renewal terms, incident reporting by customer, price per mile, service response time, or customer concentration. The disclosed revenue and driverless-order figures are strong, but site economics remain private.

Gatik?s strategic test is whether driverless middle-mile freight can become routine retail infrastructure. If the company keeps converting fixed supply routes into paid driverless orders, it can position autonomous trucks as a store-replenishment layer rather than a speculative long-haul technology.

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