PepsiCo and autonomous trucking company Gatik announced a multi-year partnership on June 8 to expand self-driving freight across PepsiCo's North America food and beverage supply chain. The companies described it as the largest commercial autonomous freight deployment to date.
Gatik's autonomous trucks are already operating for PepsiCo across Texas, Arizona, and Arkansas. The two companies first began working together in 2022, and the new agreement scales that relationship into a long-term commercial deployment.
The deal targets PepsiCo's regional transportation networks, where products move from site to site on short, repeated lanes between plants and distribution centers. PepsiCo said these networks are high-frequency and time-sensitive, and central to keeping products flowing to customers.
Gatik's trucks run fixed, repeatable regional routes rather than long-haul lanes. The company said the trucks are designed for deliveries across both highways and surface streets, with the ability to add or remove stops and adjust routes day to day in response to demand. Gatik said it operates at more than 98 percent on-time delivery.
Jim Farrell, Senior Vice President of Supply Chain at PepsiCo, said the company needs a supply chain that is safe and reliable, and that Gatik brings the technology, commercial experience, and scale to add capacity and strengthen service.
Gautam Narang, chief executive and co-founder of Gatik, said autonomous trucking reaches commercial scale when it operates inside one of the most demanding supply chains in the world, and that the partnership shows Gatik is becoming central to how large companies move goods.
PepsiCo said its approach is grounded in responsible workforce planning and continued investment in its people. The company said it and Gatik are focused on adding capacity in high-demand regional networks that are hard to staff. PepsiCo operates one of North America's largest private fleets.
The same technology is already rolling out in the Greater Toronto Area. In September 2025, Gatik and Loblaw, Canada's largest retailer, signed a five-year agreement to deploy 50 autonomous trucks across Loblaw's regional distribution network in the GTA. Twenty trucks were set for deployment by the end of 2025, with another 30 by the end of 2026, in what the companies called the largest planned rollout of autonomous trucks in North America. The fleet serves more than 300 Loblaw stores, including Shoppers Drug Mart and No Frills locations, and operates on short middle-mile routes of roughly 40 to 50 miles carrying both dry and refrigerated goods.
Gatik and Loblaw deployed Canada's first driverless commercial fleet in Brampton in 2022. The GTA expansion runs under Ontario's Automated Commercial Motor Vehicle Pilot Program, a framework the province's Ministry of Transportation introduced in August 2025 to allow autonomous medium-duty trucks on public roads. The trucks begin with safety drivers on board before transitioning to fully driverless, freight-only operations.
The PepsiCo agreement adds to a series of autonomous freight deployments in regional and middle-mile lanes over the past year, the short-haul segment where driverless trucking has reached commercial operation first.