Moller-Maersk A/S, the maritime shipping giant that has been diversifying into land transport, is betting that driverless trucks will help make deliveries more reliable. Maersk is experimenting with driverless trucks at its shipping yard in Carson, California and has collaborated with Kodiak Robotics Inc. to test autonomous truck runs from Houston to Oklahoma City with a safety driver aboard. Driverless trucks will help Maersk improve on-time performance in the world, said Erez Agmoni, Maersk's global head of innovation for logistics & services. Wide fluctuations in transit times are caused by factors like drivers' daily hourly driving limit, Agmoni said. The struggle to find more scarce parking spaces before reaching that limit also has an impact. Autonomous trucks will eliminate those restrictions and reduce the time that a customer's merchandise is on the road, he said. Kodiak, Aurora Innovation Inc. and other companies are using sensors and on-board computers to drive trucks with the promise of reducing accidents, cutting fuel consumption, and operating expensive trucks around the clock instead of about 11 hours a day, which is the limit on driver service hours. For the autonomous trucks Maersk is testing in its shipping yard, the company plans to move the trials to a larger site, which will be announced soon, to complete the evaluation. Maersk is seeking to use all autonomous trucks first during the night shift, which Agmoni said is the hardest shift to find workers for. Maersk's CEO, Don Burnette, said his company is on track to start operations without any human on board the truck by the end of 2024. Even if it takes longer than that, Ms. Agmoni said, it's better for us to be on the front line of this and be sure that we understand it.