Waabi has raised $200 million in an oversubscribed Series B round, led by Uber and Khosla Ventures, the company announced. Waabi plans to launch fully driverless trucks in Texas by 2025.
On Wednesday, autonomous trucking startup TuSimple went private after voluntarily delisting from Nasdaq following two years of stock and boardroom drama. FreightWaves’ Alan Adler writes, “TuSimple was the first autonomous trucking company to demonstrate driverless operations on an open highway. One of its trucks traveled 80 miles with no human on board from Tucson, Arizona, to Phoenix in December 2021.”
The industry’s first autonomous trucking marriage between TuSimple and Navistar is the first to end in divorce.
Small fleets make up 90% of the nation’s carriers. Waymo Via and C.H. Robinson used beer runs to familiarize them with autonomous trucking.
FreightWaves has partnered with Locomation for a one-hour webinar tomorrow, April 7 starting at 2 p.m. ET to discuss how Locomation’s human-guided approach to autonomy will build capacity and cut costs […]
To discuss how autonomous freight helps increase capacity and profit, FreightWaves is partnering with Locomation for a one-hour webinar starting at 2 p.m. ET on Tuesday, December 14. Featured speakers include Locomation’s Tekin Meriçli, Co-founder and CTO, Glynn Spangenberg, Chief Commercial Officer, and Tom Kroswek, VP of Business Development & Strategy.
By Tom Kroswek Vice President, Strategy & Business Development Tom Kroswek is a logistics and engineering professional with 30+ years of experience in supply chain engineering, transportation analysis, inbound manufacturing […]
