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The documentation you linked to gives the solution in the first section. It states that until localisation is successful, the transform errors will occur. It asks you to do one of the following to fix this:

There are two ways to send an initial guess of the vehicle pose to the system:

Select pose graphically in RViz.

Publish a pose in the terminal.

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