Top Trucking Startups in 2026

KeepTruckin is a San Francisco-based company that serves more than one million drivers and over 100,000 businesses that power the physical economy by equipping them with the technology needed to improve the safety and efficiency of their operations. Shoaib Makani and his co-founders Ryan Johns and Obaid Khan founded the company in 2013 to serve the trucking industry, a workforce that is essential to the economy but underserved by technology. Today, KeepTruckin’s 400,000-strong network of connected vehicles, ranging from small trucking companies to Fortune 500 enterprises, is one of the largest in North America. The products that KeepTruckin builds deliver integrated value for a diverse range of industries, from construction and oil and gas to distribution and moving and storage. At every turn, KeepTruckin provides cutting-edge hardware and software that leverages the latest advancements in AI and computer vision to solve a broad range of problems for businesses with vehicles — spanning video-based driver safety, Electronic Logging Device (ELD) compliance, GPS tracking, dispatch, and fuel and maintenance. KeepTruckin’s series E round valued the company at $2.3 billion, and it currently employs more than 2,400 people worldwide.

Kodiak was founded in 2018 to redefine long-haul trucking using safe and reliable autonomous technology. Between growing e-commerce and a strong economy, demand for trucking is on the rise. The trucking industry faces major problems: a shortage of drivers, difficult working conditions, and extremely high turnover. According to the American Trucking Association, the industry faced a shortage of 51,000 commercial truck drivers at the end of 2017. Long-haul trucking is primed for autonomous technology. Highway driving is more structured and predictable than urban driving. This means there are fewer decisions for drivers to make and a better fit for autonomous vehicles. We believe that autonomous trucks will play a major role in filling the gap while improving safety, enhancing truck driver quality of life, increasing efficiency, reducing congestion and emissions and creating jobs across the economy.

Unlike other electric trucking companies, we offer an electric alternative to diesel fuel instead of an expensive replacement for existing diesel trucks. By just showing up at a SixWheel station, diesel tractor trailers can be converted into 90% electric hybrids faster than it takes to fill up a gas tank.

Trucker Path is the technology leader in the trucking industry: – 33% of all U.S. long haul truck drivers as monthly active users – powerful brand in the trucking industry – first on mobile Often cited as trucker's best friend the Trucker Path app offers crowdsourced navigation and is America's most popular trucking app used by over 550,000 truckers – the number that grew by 30% last year. Trucker Path Truckloads is the freight marketplace used by over 90,000 carriers on the supply side and 700+ freight companies on the demand side. In addition, Truckloads offers InstaPay – financial services that help carriers get paid faster, manage collection and document turnover. Trucker Path's vision is a single platform for the trucking industry that encompasses: – freight marketplace – driver efficiency – financial services and more.

After decades of an antiquated payment system, there is now a modern solution for shippers, carriers, freight brokers and truck drivers.   billions of dollars spent on lumper fees each year, but previous methods of payments were forcing companies to suffer costly delays and put them at a high risk for fraud.   MyLumper has truly brought this valuable industry into the next generation of technology in trucking. We offer the trucking and freight handling (lumper) industry leaders a real-time direct payment platform with shippers, carriers, and 3PLs. By delivering value and insights we enable their trading partners to issue lumper fee payments in a more convenient, efficient and secure manner. *A Lumper fee is a mandatory fee paid for the labor to load / unload a container or to sort-out products. The people that do this work are called Lumpers.

At Truckbase, we empower small to mid-sized trucking companies with easy-to-use online tools to help them thrive. Legacy trucking software was built and priced for large fleets. Truckbase was founded in 2021 with the vision that purpose-built solutions can meaningfully improve the livelihoods of drivers, dispatchers, operations managers, and owners at small trucking companies. We partner with small fleets to build dispatch, finance, and HR tools that are easy to use and can power their growth.

ConMet, a division of Amsted Industries, is a leading global supplier of wheel hubs, aluminum castings, and structural plastics to original equipment manufacturers and aftermarket channels in the commercial vehicle industry. Founded in 1964, ConMet innovation has been critical in designing, engineering, and manufacturing revolutionary technologies for trucks and trailers. Today, ConMet products are standard equipment on most heavy-duty vehicles in North America and have a growing footprint worldwide. ConMet is committed to creating products and services that align with critical customer needs. The development of more efficient products, processes, and technology that transform the way customers run and maintain their vehicles is central to ConMet’s vision.

Based in Silicon Valley, Plus.ai was founded in 2016 by a group of Stanford PhD classmates who saw the strong potential of artificial intelligence to make a big impact on business and society. With trucking being the primary means of shipping in America, the founders decided to focus on self-driving technology to transform the trillion-dollar commercial trucking industry. Plus.ai is one of the most advanced autonomous trucking companies today in terms of technological progress and were the first to obtain California’s Autonomous Testing License. The company has since been working on improving the robustness and safety of its fully functional Level-4 autonomous trucks. Plus.ai closely collaborates with the largest OEMs to build self-driving trucks that are safer than human-operated vehicles. The company operates a fleet of autonomous trucks in pilot programs with the top freight shipping companies.

It turns out trucking is heavily dependent on invoice factoring (payday loans). Companies we work with have mountains of paperwork they must organize, sign, and submit in order to get paid. However, often payment happens 30-90 days after the paperwork submission. In order to get cash sooner, they turn to factoring companies, so they sell off their account receivables at a significant discount and the buyer of the invoice (essentially paper documents) collects the payment instead. Our solution is threefold. 1.)Speed up time to payment by digitizing the workflow. Aka give them an application that helps them get the documents back to their “homebase” quicker. 2.)Make the accounts receivables more valuable by having provenance of the data (a timestamp, location, and authentication via a signature) and 3.)Create a marketplace for the account receivable (tokenized), backed by the digitized documentation.

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