News / DHL invests in India's logistics sector boom with SmarTrucking service

DHL has entered India’s crowded digital trucking market with the launch of DHL SmarTrucking.

Under the newly formed Corporate Incubations board department, SmarTrucking aims to build an IoT-enabled owned fleet of 10,000 trucks within 10 years.

Juergen Gerdes, board member for Corporate Incubations, Deutsche Post-DHL Group, said: “We expect to transport 100,000 tonnes of cargo and cover a distance of approximately four million km across India daily.”

Over a three-month pilot period covering 2.7m km, DHL said SmarTrucking’s IoT-tech and data-driven route optimisation helped cut ...