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Plus, Scania, MAN, and Navistar partner on Level 4 autonomous trucks [Photo: Business Wire]
California’s Plus, German Truck Giant Test Self-Driving Runs Between Dallas and San Antonio
by David Seeley | Mar 12, 2024
Silicon Valley-based autonomous driving startup Plus has announced a partnership with brands of the Munich-based TRATON GROUP. The partners say they're already testing self-driving trucking runs between Dallas and Houston with a safety driver on board—and more runs are coming "in the Texas triangle and I-10 corridor."
by David Seeley |
Jun 8, 2023
Volvo's Fort Worth office will set up the first V.A.S. autonomous freight corridors from Dallas-Fort Worth to El Paso and from Dallas to Houston. The company has already begun manual test runs with partners including Uber Freight and DHL. See who else is rolling autonomous trucks out of DFW—and why North Texas has become a key testing ground "to change the way we move goods on highways."
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The Last Word: Caterpillar’s Denise Johnson on Scaling Self-Driving Trucks to the Aggregate Industry
by David Seeley |
Dec 20, 2022
Last week, Irving-based Caterpillar announced a collaboration with Luck Stone—the nation’s largest family-owned and operated producer of crushed stone, sand, and gravel—to roll out Caterpillar’s autonomous trucking solution at Luck Stone’s plant in Chantilly, Virginia. This will be Caterpillar’s first self-driving truck deployment in the aggregates industry, accelerating its solutions beyond mining, the company said. It expands Caterpillar's autonomous truck fleet to include the exceptionally burly Cat 777 seen above.
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by David Seeley |
Aug 31, 2022
Gatik, an autonomous trucking leader in “middle mile” logistics, continues to expand its strong DFW presence. Today it announced a multi-year partnership with Pitney Bowes, the global shipping and mailing company, that will mean even more self-driving trucking routes on Dallas streets soon....
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Self-Driving Startup TuSimple Teams With Hillwood On Tech Truck Hub at AllianceTexas
by Quincy Preston | Oct 28, 2020
TuSimple's expansion in the AllianceTexas Mobility Innovation Zone will allow the driverless tech trucker to connect its cross-country freight corridor and add new autonomous operations within the “Texas Triangle.”
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 13, 2019
In a new report, Cushman & Wakefield noted that technology is affecting supply chain real estate via drones, robots, 3D printing, and autonomous trucks.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 11, 2019
Dallas-based Hillwood plans to turn its vast acreage in Fort Worth and Denton County into a place called the AllianceTexas Mobility Innovation Zone. There, new transportation technologies can be developed and deployed—from autonomous cars and trucks to high-flying drones and air taxis.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 26, 2017
Technology drives the truck on open highways, but a human driver takes over in city traffic.
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