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Autonomous Addition: Yet Another Company Will Pilot Self-Driving Truck Runs in North Texas
by Lance Murray | Sep 9, 2025
International will start piloting its autonomous on-highway tractor along the I-35 corridor between Laredo and Dallas with "select fleet operators." The Illinois company joins a long list of innovators who have tested self-driving 18-wheelers on North Texas highways.
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."
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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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Waymo Via and J.B. Hunt Announce Long-Term Alliance, More Pilot Runs on I-45
by David Seeley | Jan 14, 2022
The expanded collaboration will lead to multiple pilot tests of robotically driven freight on I-45 between Fort Worth and Houston "in the same lane" as those conducted in 2021. The two companies plan "to complete fully autonomous transport in Texas in the next few years."
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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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