Volvo Group Venture Capital AB has revealed an investment in U.S.-based company aifleet, a trucking company leveraging AI-technology to reshape the future of trucking. The company focuses on truck utilization and driver satisfaction.
“aifleet is addressing inefficiencies in the trucking industry in a differentiated manner, building technology and proving out its capabilities through their own fleet operations,” said Joe Darcy, investor at Volvo Group Venture Capital.
“Not only are they increasing the utilization of the trucks on the road but also making sure drivers have an optimized working environment.”
Founded in 2020, aifleet operates in the U.S. full-truckload (FTL) segment of the trucking industry, where a truck’s full capacity is bought to ship larger freight between set destinations. The segment is currently fragmented and challenged by low driver utilization and facing issues like empty miles in the supply chain.
“The U.S. full-truckload (FTL) market size is $400 billion, but it’s a massively inefficient and fragmented market with half a million carriers, where even the biggest has less than 1% of the market. As truck utilization has trended downward since 2018, aifleet has developed technology to mitigate the utilization problem to radically improve trucking efficiencies, while bringing real humanity back to the driver experience,” said Marc El Khoury, co-founder and CEO of aifleet.
“We are excited about Volvo's investment and we are looking forward to continuing to leverage our technology to create a more sustainable fleet and industry.”
Powered by its proprietary AI-technology, aifleet is building a trucking fleet focused on increased driver satisfaction that boost truck utilization with planning tools and algorithms.
“We’re excited about the opportunity to collaborate with aifleet,” said Stephen Roy, chairman of Volvo Group North America and president of Mack Trucks. “The Volvo Group is committed to driving innovation and more sustainable transportation solutions, and it’s clear that aifleet, leveraging their unique technology, shares our ambition.”