Loblaw has signed a multi-year agreement with global autonomous vehicle company Gatik to build out a self-driving truck network in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

Under the deal, 50 trucks from Gatik’s autonomous fleet will be deployed over the next year — 20 by the end of the year, with an additional 30 throughout 2026. Loblaw says this is the largest-planned rollout of autonomous trucks in North America, servicing more than 300 of its grocery stores in the region. The companies first teamed up in 2022 to deploy Canada’s first driverless commercial fleet.

As part of this new phase of the partnership, safety drivers will be on board the vehicles before transitioning to “Freight-Only” (driverless) operations across Loblaw’s regional distribution networks in the GTA. The vehicles use the G

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