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Autonomous trucks without human drivers are still years away, but Plus shows what is possible on an open road in China.

TuSimple will use Ryder System maintenance terminals as it expands its autonomous freight network from Arizona to Florida by year-end.

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Jeremy Reymer speaks with Jim Mullen, chief administrative and legal officer of TuSimple, about what it is doing to disrupt the trucking industry as we know it and what the vision is for the future of autonomous driverless trucks.

Aurora Innovation gets a $10.6 billion enterprise value, the second highest of four autonomous driving software developers seeking to go public.

Autonomous software provider will evaluate miniature machine for Navistar truck

Supplier readiness is a key to Navistar and TuSimple achieving commercialization of a high-autonomy Class 8 truck in 2024.

AEye’s pencil dot-sized LiDAR sensor can see a half-mile ahead and instantly switch to wide view of traffic cut ins.

NHTSA’s new standing order on autonomous truck crash data is too blunt an instrument, according to a group representing the self-driving vehicle sector.

Professional drivers help teach their robotic successors while evangelizing for the technology among truckers who feel threatened.

Amazon is ordering 1,000 trucks and will pay $150 million for a 20% stake in autonomous truck software developer Plus.

Level setting the descriptions of autonomous vehicles gets simpler as industry coalesces around two main identifiers.

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Outside funding totals nearly $5 billion as Waymo’s expenses rise to expand driverless ride hailing and high-autonomy trucking software.

A new terminal in Fort Worth, Texas, will let TuSimple extend its autonomous trucking network eastward to North Carolina and Florida.

Autonomous trucking software startup TuSimple’s public offering helps boost Navistar Q2 earnings while a trucking recovery leads to added production.

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Kodiak Robotics strikes a partnership with South Korea’s SK conglomerate to move its autonomous trucking software to Asia.

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TuSimple’s autonomous trucks cut 42% off delivery time for a load of watermelons for Los Angeles-based produce giant Giumarra Cos.

Driver surveillance surfaces as a potential downside at a vehicle automation hearing.

Forget the autonomous trucking horse race, Wall Street and competitors are fixated on TuSimple’s “driver-out” pilot in Q4.

Self-driving truck software maker Plus signed its long-rumored SPAC with $500 million cash and $3.3 billion valuation expected in Q3.

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Kodiak Robotics claims the best autonomous trucking software. But the startup trails the sector’s big names in both money and partners.

With TuSimple going public by IPO, a new report says rival autonomous trucking software developer Plus will soon follow via SPAC.

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TuSimple will focus on perfecting its core autonomous trucking technology on the middle mile while it relies on partners for other aspects of the technology and services required.

TuSimple, the first autonomous vehicle software developer to go public, raised $1.1B at $40 per share, above the high-end of its estimated price..

Startup self-driving truck software-maker Embark Trucks sees itself at the center of an autonomous ecosystem driven by fleet and logistics partners.

The first autonomous trucking software company to go public, TuSimple seeks up to $1.5 billion in stock sales.

Self-driving technology startup Embark Trucks develops a universal autonomous driving system that will work in semis from the four largest manufacturers.

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Autonomous trucking startup Plus is beginning production of Level 4 software this year as it works toward 10 billion miles of on-road testing.

Waymo is leveraging software lessons from its autonomous ride-hailing pilots to Class 8 trucks, applying fifth-generation software that debuted on a Jaguar.

TuSimple, the self-driving truck startup backed by fleets, suppliers and manufacturers, filed on Tuesday to become a public company.

A DOT autonomous trucking technology study downplays concerns raised by the FMCSA.

As a love affair with electric vehicle companies fades, self-driving truck startups appear to be the new courtship objects of blank check companies.

Andrew Cox and Seth Holm are back with an episode of Great Quarter, Guys, talking about the biggest consumer news of the week and what a stimulus package could mean for buying behavior.

In today’s edition, we highlight the upcoming public listing for a self-driving truck startup; the market’s impact after the winter storms; and a startup’s earnings reports.

With recent financing from major fleets, TuSimple eschewed the blank check company frenzy to chart its own course to public trading.

Torc Robotics gets millions of gigabytes of data in testing self-driving trucks for Daimler AG. Now it wants Amazon Web Services to make faster sense of it.

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Autonomous trucking company TuSimple establishes a high-powered executive advisory board; takes equity investments from Werner Enterprises and Schneider.

Fresh from its takeover of Uber ATG in December, autonomous vehicle company Aurora has signed an agreement with heavy-duty truck manufacturer PACCAR (NASDAQ: PCAR) to commercialize autonomous Peterbilt and Kenworth trucks.  This collaboration, the latest in the series of deals between self-driving vehicle technology companies and OEMs, will integrate the Aurora Driver and PACCAR’s autonomous […]

A roundup of the latest trade news in the world of freight tech and autonomous trucking. Embark, Kodiak and TuSimple join Self-Driving Coalition Embark, Kodiak and TuSimple became the first companies dedicated exclusively to developing self-driving trucks to join a coalition representing the autonomous vehicles industry. The coalition’s members include Argo AI, Aurora, Cruise, Ford, […]

DOT Chief Elaine Chao announced a plan for autonomous vehicles on her last day at the department.

Kevin Hill and Michael Vincent dive into technological advances and the timeline for deploying AV technology.

Autonomous truck maker TuSimple makes a deal with TRATON GROUP to expand into the European market and KLLM raises driver wages.

In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, the battle lines are being drawn in the regulatory fight over broker transparency. Plus, J.B. Hunt announced several executive changes, and self-driving startup TuSimple secures $350 million in funding.

VectoIQ, the company that led the reverse merger with Nikola, led the raise, according to Forbes.

The collaboration will provide tires and tire management to TuSimple’s budding autonomous freight network.

Industry panel: Autonomous trucks will be phased in gradually, eventually transforming a huge swath of economic activity.

TuSimple has secured property for a new logistics hub in an innovation zone located near the Fort Worth Alliance Airport.

Jim Mullen previously served as the acting administrator and chief counsel for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

The autonomous trucking company partners with Volkswagen’s TRATON Group on a Swedish autonomous truck program.

While startups announce deployment tests of highly autonomous trucks, Daimler Trucks and Torc Robotics are unapologetic about their deliberative approach..

Driverless trucking startup Ike is lining up Ryder System, DHL and NFI Industries to test trucks equipped with its hardware and software.

Waymo joins a growing number of driverless tech firms locating facilities or freight operations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including Aurora, Nuro, Kodiak Robotics and TuSimple.

In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, autonomous-truck startup TuSimple may not be meeting revenue projections, Knight-Swift reports strong Q2 earnings, and a driver misclassification suit against New Prime reaches a $28 million conclusion.

TuSimple may be the country’s largest self-driving truck company, but according to a Wednesday report in the Information, the company is struggling financially.

Texas grows as locus for autonomous truck testing as Aurora Innovation plans to begin Class 8 testing in Dallas-Fort Worth area.

In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, a driver’s training matters more than his or her age when it comes to safety performance; Navistar and TuSimple promise a self-driving truck by 2024, and Convoy opens the door to dedicated freight.

Navistar’s driverless truck coming in 2024 will stick to the highway on long, stop-free runs as fleet customers learn to launch and receive the robotic semis.

Autonomous trucking startup TuSimple is joining forces with Navistar International Corp. to develop self-driving semi trucks.

Partnering with TuSimple, Navistar shaves up to five years off industry timeline for driverless trucks, targeting 2024 to sell autonomous semis.

Navistar is partnering with self-driving technology startup TuSimple to shave up to five years off the timeline for autonomous semis. It is targeting 2024 to sell International-branded driverless trucks.   Navistar International Corp. (NYSE: NAV) took an undisclosed minority stake in startup TuSimple, whose valuation exceeds $1 billion. The 2024 driverless target date vaults Navistar into […]

TuSimple has launched an Autonomous Freight Network with UPS, Penske, U.S. Xpress and McLane Co.

With final approvals in hand, German commercial vehicle mega-supplier ZF Friedrichshafen creates a new division for technology supplier Wabco Holdings, adding 12,000 employees.

The autonomous trucking outfit has so far avoided the economic carnage that has hit other startups in the self-driving industry

The COVID-19 pandemic has created the need for social distancing, even while working. For the freight industry, the adoption of autonomous vehicles might be a good start.

The collaboration will produce cameras, LiDAR, radar, steering and more.

Starsky Robotics believed it had a viable path to autonomous trucking, but investors didn’t agree and the startup ran out of money.

The robotic trucking company will expand its UPS runs to 20 trips per week and has added an extra run between Phoenix and El Paso, Texas.

Plus: The Urban Freight Lab does it again

Brian Aoaeh writes about key trucking events in 2019 and looks ahead to 2020.

“Wow, this is a big differentiator,” University of California San Diego researcher says.

Agency envisions using trucks as launch point for last-mile customers.

Technology deployment specialists Velociti have expanded into the construction markets, giving participants the same support and expertise over-the-road trucking companies have benefitted from since its founding.

The autonomous trucking company announces an additional $120 million in Series D investment.

Daimler Trucks is moving closer to its goal of commercially producing Level 4 autonomous trucks with public road testing in Virginia.

It is the first time a transportation and logistics provider has invested in an autonomous trucking company.

Plus: Amazon-Whole Foods two year anniversary; Japan to build five bullet trains in India; Elaine Chao sells stock in highway company.

The first-ever AV certificate program for truck drivers comes as the industry seeks to allay concerns about technology displacing human drivers.

Daimler Trucks is betting big on autonomous trucks, as the German-based company announced Wednesday, May 29, that it is establishing a global group that seeks to put highly automated commercial trucks on U.S. highways within the next 10 years.

Autonomous trucks will haul postal agency trailers between distribution centers in Phoenix, Arizona and Dallas, Texas.

The autonomous truck company announced a new vision system that will allow vehicles to operate at night and in low light environments.

Bendix is now making its advanced safety systems available for retrofit for models where it was not factory-installed. Plus, U.S. finds little support for postal rate changes, detention time increasing and air cargo boom may be over.

Ike CEO Alden Woodrow and TuSimple chief product officer Chuck Price discuss the value of being the first company to bring a fully autonomous truck to market, the trucking hardware challenge and how to get buy-in from the public and regulators.

The company will use the investment  to grow its commercial autonomous fleet.

“We’re doing this with real commercial shippers and real cargo,”

TuSimple, a Chinese autonomous truck technology startup that is backed by Nvidia with offices in San Diego, has raised an additional $55 million in venture capital.

Graphics processing unit (GPU) manufacturer Nvidia has invested into automated trucking company TuSimple, TechCrunch reports.