Gayland Larsen started trucking when he was 22, driving a Peterbilt that he had full control of without all the bells and whistles present in today’s models that he said practically drive the truck for you.
Now 70, he has driven over six million miles, hauling coal and other dry bulk goods for Utah-based Barney Trucking for the entirety of his career. Larsen, who was recognized as Driver of the Year in the trucking category Monday night at the Lytx Protect 2026 user conference held in San Diego, has been part of the industry across decades of change.
He has been part of the industry from the time of paper logbooks to now having electronic logging devices and from a time of empty truck dashboards to now having digital dashboards on tablets inside cabs. On his dashboard is a driver-facing dash camera as well, but he said he easily accepted that change.
“There have been a lot of changes,” Larsen said. "You gotta go with the way the world goes."
Just as drivers like Larsen have to adapt to the changes, so does the technology itself with new and updated solutions to remain competitive, said Lytx’s new CEO Chris Cabrera, who joined the company last July.
“It's incumbent upon us … to be thinking around corners, to be thinking about the next two years, the next five years,” Cabrera told attendees during his Monday keynote.
And more changes are coming.
Dynamic Triggers
Larsen and his fellow drivers at Barney Trucking are in for enhanced risk detection with the addition of Dynamic Triggers coming to Lytx’s Dynamic Risk, a solution that uses machine vision and AI, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather data and real-time driver alerts to help fleets produce better safety outcomes.
Dynamic Triggers, which will be available this summer, gives drivers speed warnings for conditions on snowy or wet roads.
It considers things like Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) guidelines when addressing speed in these elements. The FMCSA says drivers should reduce their speed by one-third of the posted speed limit on wet roads and by half on snowy roads.
“If you're focused on just what the posted speed is, you're going to be exposed to unnecessary risk … Speeding on a bright, sunny day on the open interstate is a very different risk profile than speeding in the snow at night,” said Brendon Hill, Lytx senior vice president of product. “The power here is that we're able to take the rules that the system currently follows, and you can start customizing them so the rules can change based on the context in which your drivers are driving.”
That feature entered beta testing this week with five Lytx customers, including Nussbaum Transportation.
Lytx is applying that technology beyond weather as well.
The system will also be able to identify construction zones, using AI to detect key attributes of those areas like traffic cones, and alert drivers when their speed approaches the construction area’s reduced speed limit.
Using Lytx’s pedestrian detection, the system will also warn drivers to lower their speed in recognized pedestrian environments.
Lytx is also introducing Dynamic Adjust, which allows fleets to define rules for geofenced zones. An example would be an area with a low bridge. Hill said Lytx is also in the process of mapping low bridges across the country using the company’s vast dataset, compiled from millions of Lytx cameras that Cabrera said covers every road across the U.S. every five minutes.
Coach Assist
Lytx’s new Coach Assist feature will launch at the end of this quarter.
Hill said Lytx believes human coaching is the most effective way to change driver behavior, but many coaches are spread thin, lessening their impact.
Coach Assist uses AI to bring a holistic view of all relevant information to a coach’s fingertips so they don’t have to manually search the platform. It even inserts talking points based on those details that the coach can infuse into the conversation with the driver, which also helps standardize discussions, giving drivers a more consistent message from coach to coach.
Hill said Lytx received feedback from new and veteran coaches, sharing that this feature saved them up to 20 minutes ahead of a coaching session. He said this allows coaches to focus their time on drivers who need the most attention.
Within Coach Assist is the multimodal coaching workflow. It brings the power of the AI coach assistant into a simplified self-coaching workflow for drivers, personalized based on what’s relevant to an individual driver based on their data.
It also allows coaches to offload coaching onto AI so they can focus on drivers who need human coaching, and coaches can define within the feature which drivers receive self-coaching based on parameters they set.
Coaches will also be able to give more balanced feedback, with the new capability that lets them send real-time kudos alerts when the AI dash camera recognizes that a driver performed a positive behavior or created a safer situation from a risky event.
For example, maybe the driver came to a complete stop at a stop sign, or a passenger car cut the driver off, but they slowed down to create a safe following distance.
Drivers can also earn streaks as they perform well over time.
Hill said Lytx’s team is conceptualizing a capability that would give fleets the option to upload their company safety policy, letting AI recommend settings within the Lytx platform based on that policy.
360 Visibility
Lytx plans to launch its next-generation 360 Hub Kit in the third quarter of this year.
It allows for the integration of up to eight HD cameras across sides, rear, cargo and blind zones. All footage will be cloud-synced and enhanced with AI for instant detection and response to safety events.
“We're getting sideswiped and can't read the license plate, and the person takes off. We have gas being stolen on the other side of the truck, and we don't even have a camera that can see it. We are backing into things right, left and center,” said Cabrera, noting the concerns he has heard from customers. “If I've heard it once, I've heard it 1,000 times.”
In the final stages of improving algorithms, Hill shared that Lytx’s overlay technology with AI and optical character recognition will identify license plates. That data – along with timestamps – will be added within the metadata of the video so fleets can locate the spot where the vehicle was detected during the event.
Lytx will also offer a standalone AI Smart Camera for areas like the loading dock and equipment like forklifts. It is fully self-contained, ruggedized and weatherproof, only needing access to power to function. The company will also extend its all-in-one AI-powered platform beyond vehicles to fixed-site cameras at yards, job sites and facilities in the first quarter of 2027 to give operators a unified view of moving and stationary assets.
Additional Features
Chief Technology Officer Rajesh Rudraradhya said Lytx is also looking into body camera technology for drivers to detect things like fatigue and provide alerts during safety events as part of that 360 visibility.
Another visibility element is Lytx’s comprehensive, platform-native asset tracking portfolio that offers battery-powered and vehicle-powered trackers for a wide range of fleet assets, including forklifts, loaders, trailers, containers and other high-value equipment.
Several options are available now, and more are planned for release throughout the year. They are designed to provide real-time visibility as well as data insights integrated into dashboards for unified operational management.
And speaking of integrations, Lytx is expanding its all-in-one footprint through a new integration with Platform Science, similar to its partnership with Geotab that launched last year, creating Lytx+. It brought together Lytx’s video safety with Geotab’s telematics, removing the need for multiple systems or vendors.
This new integration brings Lytx’s video safety technology to Platform Science’s Virtual Vehicle platform, connecting drivers, solutions, data and devices into a single system built for enterprise trucking.
Lytx also developed new self-serve capabilities and unveiled the Lytx Support Center that uses AI to guide fleets through support materials for troubleshooting and gives them access to create support tickets and track the status of those tickets and escalate them as needed.
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