ISEE has partnered with Holman to lease, retrofit and maintain yard trucks that run ISEE’s driverless system in North America. Holman, a fleet leasing and services company, is also a strategic investor in ISEE.
Holman will retrofit trucks with ISEE’s autonomy system before delivery and provide financing and fleet management. Customers can use trucks they already own, lease trucks from Holman, or buy autonomous-ready trucks supplied by ISEE.
“First of all, you have to figure out where to get the truck. Either buy it, or lease it, or rent it,” Debbie Yu, ISEE’s president and co-founder, told FreightWaves. ISEE then has to fit its autonomy system, deploy the truck at the customer’s site and maintain it, Yu said. She said handling retrofits in-house would require ISEE to hire technicians outside its expertise.
Yu said multiple Fortune 100 customers want to deploy thousands of autonomous yard trucks over the next couple of years. Holman launched its robotics unit last December to combine financing with lifecycle management for robotic equipment.
Outrider, a rival autonomous yard truck maker, signed a five-year agreement with YMX Logistics the same week. YMX will finance and operate Outrider fleets and lead customer rollouts.
Factory-built ISEE trucks are due to enter serial production in 2027 through TICO, a terminal tractor maker that partnered with ISEE in 2025. ISEE will continue working with other yard truck makers on diesel, alternative-fuel and electric models, Yu said.
