The roads are mostly mapped for TuSimple to drive autonomously in Texas. Now it is up to commercial property developers to get ready for driverless trucks to come and go from warehouses.
Hillwood Investment Properties, one of the largest commercial real estate developers in the country, is taking suggestions from TuSimple Holdings (NASDAQ: TSP) on how to incorporate the needs of autonomous trucks into current and future facilities.
“If you develop a warehouse that has the right setup, like a...
Before autonomous startups decided to field autonomous trucks before driverless cars, passenger vehicles had an edge in attention and investment. Now it is the lessons learned from robotic trucks that are being applied to Aurora Innovation’s ride-hailing robotaxis.
Aurora (NASDAQ: AUR) is one of two competitors in autonomous truck development that started with autonomous car projects. The other is Alphabet subsidiary Waymo and its trucking offshoot Waymo Via, which evolved from the original...
The holiday season in trucking traditionally sees lower driver activity due to the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. The driver’s home time and geographic location pose a unique challenge to carriers, as larger fleets have drivers domiciled in locations that may be far from their primary high-volume contracted lanes. This leads into an important fleet operations topic: fleet availability percentages and...
Nvidia. Ryder System. Cummins Inc. UPS. Daimler Truck. All have more than one autonomous trucking relationship.
Add to that list Germany-based Deutsche Post DHL, the global provider of international express, air and ocean freight forwarding, contract logistics, and e-commerce services.
After being revealed as a member of the Embark Trucks Partnership Development Program (PDP) in late October, DHL (OTC: DPSGY) is in camp with TuSimple Holdings. It has placed a $50,000 deposit to reserve 100...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/dhl-latest-to-take-on-multiple-autonomous-trucking-partners
PALMER, Texas — Successful autonomous trucking runs have nothing in common. As in nothing happens that the robot driver cannot handle as intended. That includes knowing to slow down for the man who occasionally walks his dog along Interstate 45 south of Dallas.
Aurora Innovation’s autonomous trucks have seen the man and the dog before and the robot Aurora Driver systems learned to brake almost imperceptibly, obeying the Texas law to shift one lane to the left or reduce its speed by 20 mph.
“The...
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Waymo Via is joining the freight-dense Interstate 45 route from Fort Worth, Texas, to Houston in a six-week test of its latest autonomous trucking software for UPS that comes as the package delivery company benefits from extra help for the holiday shipping season.
The human-supervised Class 8 trucks with the Generation 5 Waymo Driver system are the first commercial application of Waymo’s system that will be integrated into Freightliner Cascadias through Waymo’s partnership with Daimler Trucks...
Autonomous truck software maker TuSimple Holdings has surpassed 160,000 robot-driven miles for UPS and is expanding routes for parcel loads to Florida from Arizona and Texas.
“The paid freight part is good, and we like to get paid for our work,” TuSimple CEO Cheng Lu told FreightWaves. “At the end of the day, the revenue we have with UPS relative to UPS and the overall industry is tiny. It’s almost laughable really, given how much they bill every year.
“But being able to map the routes, have...
TUCSON, Ariz. — Autonomous trucking startup TuSimple Holdings doesn’t see itself competing with customers who will buy trucks equipped with its autonomous software. Still, it is growing its own fleet to more than 200 trucks, putting it in the top 20% of freight haulers.
“It’s not our business model that’s driving this,” TuSimple CEO Cheng Lu told FreightWaves during a visit to the company’s operations about 15 miles east of Tucson in the Sonoran Desert.
“We are almost by default the first...
Signs are flashing red for the business combination of autonomous trucking software developer Plus getting to the finish line of its $3.3 billion SPAC merger with Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp. V.
A Sept. 27 Securities and Exchange Commission filing by HCIC (NASDAQ: HCIC)
declares it unlikely the merger will conclude by the “outside date” of Nov. 8. Plus will not comment on the timing of the closing of the business combination.
Competitor Aurora Innovation expects to conclude its SPAC business...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/endangered-spac-public-trading-path-for-plus-could-be-in-jeopardy
SPAC-sponsored autonomous trucking software developer Embark Trucks expects to exceed its first-year revenue target based on 14,200 reservations it has collected from partner carriers including Knight-Swift and Anheuser-Busch.
The reservations more than double the 6,775 reservations that competitor TuSimple Holdings reported through the second quarter for the autonomous International LT Class 8 truck it is developing with Navistar. TuSimple took a $500 deposit on each reservation. Embark is...