We are driving innovation! Built in Houston, TX, we operate our autonomous truck fleet for brokers and shippers. Hauling loads daily throughout Texas.
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Well done Bart!
Humbled to be elected to represent the #CVSA associates as Vice President.
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From our President, Brett Suma: As autonomous trucking scales, tractor count will be an important measure of progress.
But the more important question is: how fully utilized are those tractors?
Autonomous tractors are high-value, capital-intensive assets. Simply putting more of them into service doesn’t create a successful transportation network if they aren’t generating productive miles.
That’s where the go-to-market model matters.
Under Driver-as-a-Service, monetization has several dependencies. The technology determines where the truck can operate. A traditional fleet — already optimized around human drivers — has to adopt and integrate it. And ultimately, the shipper still decides which freight can move autonomously.
Those layers can create a significant utilization challenge.
Scaling autonomous tractors faster than the freight available to utilize them risks creating a large pool of expensive, underused assets.
At Bot Auto , we start with the network.
The Capacity Grid Powered by Bot is built by partnering directly with shippers — the people who control the freight.
We understand their networks, address their operational and safety concerns, identify where autonomous transportation creates value, and build the Capacity Grid around real freight demand.
Then we deploy and operate the autonomous capacity directly for them through Transportation as a Service (TaaS).
That creates an important distinction:
We’re not trying to scale tractors first and solve utilization second. We’re scaling the network, the freight and the autonomous capacity together.
Tractor count will matter.
But ultimately, capital efficiency comes from utilization — and utilization starts with the shipper.
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Diesel prices have reached record levels in the last month and mall carriers across the board are saying “what cost is too much for us to keep hauling?”
Bot Auto is a small carrier, but we also have a superpower in our trucks that allows for strategic navigation of diesel prices: autonomy-boosted fuel efficiency.
Our VP of Commercial Opperations David Stemm wrote about how our team thinks about making it in this diesel market here:
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The benchmark diesel price hit yet another all-time high this week — $6.529 per gallon — while J.P. Morgan's commodity analysts openly admitted they no longer have a baseline view on where energy markets are headed. But futures markets may be sending an early signal of relief.
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For back to back years, Bot Auto has made the @FreightWaves FreightTech 100 list. This award list has the biggest names in freight and we’re honored to be featured as a repeat winner.
2026 was truly transformational for the business. Autonomy went from a pilot program to a revenue engine for the operations team. Leadership was bolstered with the addition of Brett Suma, and Tete Xiao. Bart Teeter kept the team locked in with our safety partners across Texas, like Texas Department of Public Safety.
Now we wait until the Future of Freight Festival in October to see if we can bust into the FreightTech 25, the industry’s most innovative companies. Congratulations to the entire Bot Auto team!
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ICYMI: Last week the Phillips Connect team hosted their September webinar featuring Brett Suma.
The discussion was fantastic! If you didn't have a chance to join, you can request an on-demand recording of the session here:
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"We’re entering the next phase of autonomous trucking: moving beyond development and into real commercial freight operations. At Bot Auto, we’re now moving 350 loads per month across Texas, putting our technology to work every day.
Every load matters. Every mile gives us another opportunity to validate the technology, improve operations, strengthen our network, and prove the economics of autonomous trucking in real-world conditions.
And this is only the beginning.
We’re building toward the Capacity Grid Powered by Bot — a scalable autonomous network designed to grow lane by lane, market by market, and ultimately support our goal of 1 billion autonomous miles annually by 2031.
Physical AI is moving from the lab to the real world.
350 loads a month today. A much bigger network ahead." - Bot Auto President & COO Brett Suma
Read more about Brett's first 100 days with us here:
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Three months ago, Brett Suma joined the Bot Auto team. We knew his addition would come with some big goals. Brett has delivered in his first 100 days, and he's put together his thoughts on what's been built so far, and what's on the horizon.
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The research team at Needham & Company recently put together a white paper about the future of autonomous trucking. The team is exceedingly bullish on the AV landscape, from scalability to investment opportunity.
For Bot Auto, they said "Bot Auto successfully drove cargo from Houston to Dallas with no safety driver on an overnight run in April, with Bot Auto offering the cleanest expression of our thesis, leveraging autonomy to create a lower cost capacity provider and win industry share vs pursuing an autonomy as a service model."
Sign up to access Needham's research on their website here:
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Tomorrow is the day! Join Phillips Connect for their September webinar, "What Your Tires Aren't Telling You."
Brett Suma will be part of the panel to discuss why connected technology is a non-negotiable when it comes to deploying a successful autonomous truck, and how Phillips Connect helps keep the Bot Auto fleet running.
Register for the webinar:
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Join us September 10 at 1 p.m. Eastern Time for a discussion around tires.
Our speakers will break down what separates a fleet that's guessing from one that's knowing, on cost, safety, and efficiency.
September 10, 2026 | 1 p.m. ET
Register here: na2.hubs.ly/H07vGsh0
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When you’re working for large customers like Ryan Transportation, quality delivery service is a non-negotiable.
Jason Lau, Bot’s Director of Business Development, explains how we hit that quality guarantee.
Safety, service, super powered by autonomy.
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Rank change in the Autonomous Trucks Index. @BotAutoAV moves up to No. 3, from No. 4.
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“Remote assistants play a critical role in Bot Auto’s operations, providing a human layer of support and oversight for our autonomous fleet. We’re building out America’s 21st-century supply chain. It needs to be extremely resilient, and that’s why it’s critical that these roles are always kept within the United States,” - @thebrmoore
Thank you to @ThomasWasson and @FreightWaves for highlighting our promise to the American supply chain and to first responders.
It is vital to our mission of supply chain transformation!
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When a first responder approaches a driverless truck on the side of a Texas highway, someone has to answer. Bot Auto says that someone will always be based in the United States. The Houston autonomous trucking company has formally committed to U.S.-only remote assistance operators — the people who communicate with law enforcement and can initiate a vehicle shutdown during an incident — as congressional and regulatory scrutiny of offshore AV staffing continues to grow.
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Thank you @DanaGJournalist and @TruckerTalk for covering our announcement. Special shout out to Major Villarreal and @TxDPS for their work with @BotAutoAV !
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At one point in history, commercialized aviation was a fanciful dream. It took decades to become a reality, and longer to become a commercially viable scaled industry.
In his latest article for Fast Company, Xiaodi Hou explains how physical AI will undergo the same path, from commercialization to scale to widespread adoption.
While aviation took the long road, physical AI and autonomy will be quicker to success; the blueprint has already been laid for transformation, and the players to make it reality are already in place.
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