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[Photo: Volvo Autonomous Solutions]
Volvo Autonomous Solutions Partners With DSV on Self-Driving Freight Runs Between Dallas and Houston
by David Seeley | May 13, 2026
Sweden-based V.A.S. is launching autonSweden-based V.A.S. is expanding its Texas operations by launching autonomous transport services for Denmark-based DSV between Aurora’s terminals in greater Dallas and Houston. It will be deploying Volvo's Autona/freight solution on the I-45 runs, with a safety driver behind the wheel on all trips for now.omous transport services for Denmark-based logistics company DSV between Aurora’s terminals in greater Dallas and Houston, deploying Volvo's Autona/freight solution on the I-45 runs. For now, a safety driver will be behind the wheel on all trips.
by David Seeley |
Feb 25, 2026
Founded in 2023 by the co-founder and former CTO of TuSimple, Bot Auto will soon be adding to a growing array of "trucker-out" 18-wheeler operations flowing in and out of Dallas-Fort Worth. Its competitors operating in North Texas include Aurora, Gatik, Torc Robotics, Kodiak Robotics, Waabi, and Volvo Autonomous Solutions.
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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.
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by David Seeley |
Jun 25, 2024
After years of successful Dallas-Houston Uber Freight runs using Aurora's self-driving truck technology, the companies have launched Premier Autonomy—giving "hundreds of carriers" priority access to autonomous truck capacity through 2030.
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Kodiak's sixth-generation, driverless-ready semi-truck. [Photo: Kodiak Robotics]
Kodiak Unveils First ‘Driverless-Ready’ Semi-Truck Designed for Scaled Deployment, Plans Commercial Runs on I-45 This Year
by David Seeley | Jan 9, 2024
Planning to launch driverless operations between Dallas and Houston later this year out of its Lancaster hub, Kodiak says its sixth-generation driverless-ready semi-truck bristles with redundancies for safe operation—building on the
Mountain View, California-based company's five years of real-world testing.
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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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by David Seeley |
Apr 3, 2023
With the latest beta release of its Aurora Driver autonomous driving system, Aurora Innovation says it's reached a "feature complete" milestone. This could put the company one step closer to its goal of totally human-free freight runs between Dallas and Houston by late 2024.
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by David Seeley |
Mar 17, 2023
Mountain View, California-based Kodiak Robotics—which announced an earlier partnership last May with U.S. Xpress to launch autonomous freight service between Dallas and Atlanta—today announced it has teamed up with Forward Air Corporation to roll freight between the same two cities.
Through the agreement, Kodiak and Forward say they're "operating autonomous freight service 24 hours per day, six days per week between Dallas and Atlanta, making three round trips weekly."
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Caterpillar CAT 777 100-ton-class autonomous truck. [Photo: Caterpillar]
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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by David Seeley |
Jul 6, 2022
Waymo's new hub—built from the ground up—is a $10 million investment in Lancaster that will bring "hundreds of jobs" to the community, a Waymo exec announced at its opening last week.
"This operation and Waymo's investment in the region further cements Dallas-Fort Worth as the home to autonomous vehicles in the U.S.," added Duane Dankesreiter, SVP for research and innovation at the Dallas Regional Chamber.
"This operation and Waymo's investment in the region further cements Dallas-Fort Worth as the home to autonomous vehicles in the U.S.," added Duane Dankesreiter, SVP for research and innovation at the Dallas Regional Chamber.
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