News / Volvo backs the Trucksters 'Pony Express' truck relay system

Spanish company Trucksters, a pioneer of ‘relay trucking’, this week announced €33m in Series B venture capital funding, that includes investment from Volvo’s venture capital arm.

Key to the Madrid-based company’s offering is its proposed ‘relay’ system, which would break longer truck journeys into a sequence of short hops – giving drivers time to sleep, eat, and wash.

Trucksters spokesperson José Ángel Sanz told The Loadstar that in its digitalisation-enabled incarnation, the relay system would offer truckers – “the ...