Kodiak AI

Driverless technology for heavy trucks, piloted for log haulage with West Fraser in Alberta.

Timber logistics & traceabilityMountain View, United StatesFounded 2018

Kodiak AI develops AI-powered autonomous driving technology for Class 8 trucks under a driver-as-a-service model. The Kodiak Driver retrofits virtual-driver hardware and software onto existing trucks and operates without anyone in the cab. Customers include freight, oil and gas, and forestry operators, with commercial driverless deployments in West Texas and a logging pilot launching with West Fraser in Alberta.

What Boreal Tech Brief reported

  1. #04519 May 2026 · Launch

    Kodiak AI Puts Driverless Trucks on West Fraser's Alberta Log Routes

    Kodiak AI (Nasdaq: KDK) will run trucks equipped with the Kodiak Driver on West Fraser Timber's log-hauling routes in Alberta later this year, moving timber from forest sites to one of West Fraser's processing facilities. It is Kodiak's first international deployment and its first push into logging, after scaling to twenty driverless trucks in West Texas's Permian Basin by the end of 2025. FPInnovations facilitated the deal. Logging roads are remote, uneven, and rough, a markedly harder operating envelope than oilfield highways, and a useful test for the claim that the Kodiak Driver is industry-agnostic.