The second FreightWaves Autonomous and Electric Vehicles Summit will feature leaders in autonomy and all things electrification.
Locomation has an eight-year agreement with Stevens Trucking to operate autonomous relay convoys on four interstate routes.
Kodiak Robotics snagged a strategic investment and is developing an autonomous truck service project with Pilot Co.
Schneider is joining fleets testing highway autonomy, starting commercial pilots in supervised Aurora Innovation trucks this week.
With a long list of heavy-hitting customers that include Walmart, Loblaw and most recently Georgia-Pacific, Gatik has demonstrated that commercially successful autonomous delivery is happening first in a constrained environment, on fixed, repeatable short-haul routes.
Kodiak Robotics is taking a simpler approach to mapping highways for autonomy, focusing on connectivity over detail
Embark Trucks and BYD demonstrated what using electricity rather than diesel looked like in drayage with an autonomous truck.
Waymo Via will reserve billions of miles of future autonomous trucking routes for digital load matching by Uber Freight.
Volvo will work with DHL Supply Chain to test hub-to-hub autonomous trucking using Class 8 VNL tractors retrofitted by Aurora Innovation.
U.S. Xpress is tripling down on autonomy, adding Kodiak Robotics to pilots with Embark Trucks and TuSimple.
Ever willing to try something new, Werner Enterprises teams aligns with Aurora Innovation on 600-mile supervised autonomous freight runs in Texas.
Editor’s note: Corrects location of ride-hailing fleet to Dallas-Fort Worth instead of Arizona Aurora Innovation has added a 600-mile autonomous route between Fort Worth and El Paso, Texas, testing its Aurora Driver Beta 2.0 lane on the middle leg between Atlanta and Los Angeles, one of the nation’s busiest commercial freight thoroughfares. The new-generation Peterbilt […]
Gatik’s Gautam Narang will be an industry keynoter at The Future of Supply Chain event.
At the press conference announcing the deal, the first user of the Locomation technology, Wilson Logistics, gave an update on what it is doing in the autonomous space.
TuSimple’s stock price has tanked in recent weeks, and a published report says the autonomous truck developer may sell its China business unit.
Startup Kodiak Robotics is the first to run regular autonomous loads to Oklahoma in a partnership with Ceva Logistics.
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Aurora Innovation is trying to prove it has thought through issues surrounding autonomous trucking as it targets late 2023 to launch its Horizon system.
Waymo Via and C.H. Robinson are the latest dance partners seeking to choreograph autonomous trucking.
FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Opportunities for automation abound over the middle and last miles SPEAKER: Sam Saad, VP of strategic initiatives for Gatik BIO: Saad currently heads up strategic initiatives for Gatik, a company offering AVs for B2B short-haul logistics. He has a 15-year track record of delivering complex projects across diverse sectors. Prior to Gatik, […]
TuSimple says its autonomous trucking software is “feature complete” and it will expand driverless trucking beyond a pilot program.
Outrider is adding autonomously precise backing of trailers to the dock to its range of driverless services in distribution yards.
Embark Trucks’ connection with Knight-Swift will lead to the installation of high-autonomy software by the end of 2022.
TuSimple advances its commercialization timetable for driverless trucking and adds intermodal freight for Union Pacific at the Port of Tucson in Arizona.
The roads are mostly mapped for TuSimple to drive autonomously in Texas. Now it is up to commercial property developers to get ready.
Truck Tech is a weekly newsletter providing perspective and context on autonomy, electrification and other technologies impacting the fleet ecosystem.
With Aurora Driver 2.0, the self-driving developer plans to field the first robotic ride-hailing minivans along with Class 8 trucks.
TuSimple achieved its goal of sending a Class 8 truck with no one in the cab on a nighttime run along Interstate 10 in Arizona.
German shipper and delivery service DHL reserves 100 TuSimple autonomous trucks six weeks after joining Embark Trucks’ partner program.
Kodiak Robotics CEO Don Burnette says asset utilization is the big promise of autonomous trucks now testing mostly in the southwest U.S.
Aurora Innovation acquired Uber’s advanced technology group last year. Now it is piloting autonomous integration with Uber Freight.
AV manufacturers are quickly building evidence to prove the safety of autonomous driving technology.
Self-driving trucking company Embark plans to begin hauling freight for customers between Houston and San Antonio next year.
Aurora Technology pledges to be first to take the driver out of an autonomous truck in late 2023, but its freight ambitions are modest at present.
Revenue is not the point in TuSimple’s partnership with UPS, which holds the autonomous trucking startup to its third-party shipper standards.
Redeploying drivers to get loads to and from transfer hubs promises huge savings, according to a Ryder System-funded study with Georgia Tech.
In the disruptive world of autonomous trucking, TuSimple says it has to haul freight to prove the technology works.
Aurora Innovation and Embark Trucks will soon join TuSimple Holdings as stocks betting on the future of driverless trucks.
With 14,200 reservations for its autonomous trucking software, Embark Trucks predicts it will surpass the first-year revenue target.
Both candidates said that organizing Amazon is a top priority, noting that Amazon and UPS workers’ futures are at stake.
TuSimple is sitting on $1.5 billion in cash as it ramps up hiring and expands its autonomous freight network.
TuSimple will use Ryder System maintenance terminals as it expands its autonomous freight network from Arizona to Florida by year-end.
Kodiak Robotics co-founder and CEO Don Burnette explains why the development of autonomous trucking is poised to leap from the experimentation phase to a viable commercial product during the Autonomous & Electric Vehicles Summit.
