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This Aurora-McLeod software integration will make it easier for mutual customers to adopt autonomous trucks and pave the way for broader industry deployment of this emerging technology.

Trucking industry veteran Lior Ron is joining autonomous technology company Waabi to help scale the commercial deployment of driverless trucks, the company announced Aug. 12.

The federal government had already approved 657 waivers to allow companies such as Amazon and major utilities to do this in certain circumstances, but the waiver process made it difficult.

Daytime autonomous runs on the Dallas-Houston corridor laid the groundwork for the new overnight service, which more than doubles each truck’s utilization potential.

Dallas will become the second major Texas city with Waymo’s robotaxis, following the company’s move into Austin earlier this year as part of a partnership with Uber.

Steves & Sons began pilot program testing Bot Auto’s retrofitted Freightliner tractors alongside its managed logistics provider, J.B. Hunt Transport Services, in June.

Amazon is gearing up to make as many as 10,000 robotaxis annually at a sprawling plant near Silicon Valley as it prepares to challenge self-driving cab leader Waymo. 

FedEx Freight opened a service center in Greenwood, Ind., at the end of May, the carrier said. FedEx’s less-than-truckload division now has 323 terminals nationwide.

Walmart is adding drone delivery in five new cities in a bid to expand online sales and get goods to shoppers faster.

Uber Technologies named longtime executive Andrew Macdonald its first chief operating officer since 2019, part of an executive shake-up that includes the departure of the company’s top delivery leader.