AI @ Ryder
Summary
- Ryder has progressively integrated AI and autonomous technologies into its logistics and transportation operations between 2021 and 2025, with key partnerships including Georgia Tech and Aurora focusing on autonomous trucking and fleet maintenance.
- By 2024, Ryder advanced to piloting AI-powered yard operations with Terminal Industries achieving 99% accuracy in tracking trucks and trailers, and has established a Silicon Valley AI technology lab to drive innovation in supply chain and logistics solutions.
- Recent efforts in 2025 emphasize AI-driven predictive analytics and generative AI applications to optimize route planning, demand forecasting, autonomous robotics, and supply chain disruption mitigation, aiming to reduce costs and improve customer experience.
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4 AI Use Cases at Ryder
Predictive Analytics2025
Route Optimization2025Customer Facing
Yard Digitization2024
Timeline
2025 Q4: no updates
2025 Q3
Ryder's recent communications continue to highlight AI and supply chain innovations, although specific new AI projects or technologies are not detailed in the available information for this quarter.
2025 Q2
Ryder actively leveraged AI-driven predictive analytics, machine learning, and risk modeling to enhance demand forecasting, route optimization, and proactive supply chain disruption mitigation for cost savings and efficiency improvements.
2025 Q1
Ryder highlighted generative AI applications to improve logistics including route optimization, demand forecasting, and autonomous robotics with increasing adoption across the trucking and brokerage sectors.
2024 Q4: no updates
2024 Q3
Ryder and Terminal Industries launched a pilot using AI and computer vision to digitize yard operations, achieving 99% accuracy in truck and trailer identification, significantly improving operational efficiency.
2024 Q2
Ryder executives convened to establish a center of excellence for artificial intelligence aimed at evaluating and prioritizing AI initiatives across the organization.
2024 Q1: no updates
2023 Q4: no updates
2023 Q3
Ryder intensified AI investments by opening a Silicon Valley technology lab and published insights on AI revolutionizing supply chains, focusing on enhanced warehouse solutions and distribution management.
- Ryder: Revolutionizing Supply Chains with Artificial Intelligence
- Ryder: Is AI Turning Supply Chains into Disruptors? (White paper)
- Heavy Duty Trucking: Ryder Silicon Valley Lab Developing AI-Driven Logistics Technology
- thescxchange.com: Ryder opens Silicon Valley technology lab to prepare for waves of AI
2023 Q2: no updates
2023 Q1: no updates
2022 Q4
Ryder collaborated with Aurora to pilot on-site fleet maintenance for autonomous trucks, embedding Ryder technicians at Aurora's terminal to maximize utilization.
2022 Q3: no updates
2022 Q2: no updates
2022 Q1: no updates
2021 Q4
Ryder partnered with Georgia Tech to conduct the industry's first data-driven study on the impact of autonomous trucking, marking a foundational move into autonomous vehicle technology.