Volvo prepares to launch self-driving truck lanes in Texas
On Thursday, Volvo introduced main plans to start autonomous truck operations for purchasers in Texas.
In a June 8 announcement, Volvo Autonomous Options (V.A.S.) introduced that it opened places of work in Fort Price, Texas, as half of a bigger plan to arrange the corporate’s first autonomous freight corridors that can run from Dallas Forth Price to El Paso and from Dallas to Houston.
To organize for the eventual self-driving truck operations, V.A.S. will use vehicles operated by human drivers to haul masses for purchasers together with DHL and Uber Freight.
V.A.S. says that they plan to function on a ” hub-to-hub mannequin the place autonomous vehicles tackle the freeway portion of the driving, working all hours of the day and evening between switch hubs whereas human drivers full native operations.”
V.A.S. is presently accepting “reservations” on their web site permitting “shippers, carriers, logistics suppliers and freight brokers can safe a precedence place to buy autonomous freight capability.”
V.A.S. partnered with self-driving truck tech firm Aurora as a part of the autonomous trucking operation plan.
“At Volvo Autonomous Options we consider the trail to autonomy at scale is thru lowering the friction and issues round possession and operations for purchasers. This is the reason we’ve taken the choice to be the one interface to our clients and take full possession of the weather required for industrial autonomous transport. With the opening of our workplace in Texas and begin of operational actions, we’re constructing the foundations for a transport resolution that can change the best way we transfer items on highways,” says Nils Jaeger, President of Volvo Autonomous Options.
“Via our Autonomous Transport Answer, our ambition is to create a brand new supply of trade capability that can ease a number of the burden of the rising demand for freight whereas additionally enabling native drivers to shift into short-haul jobs that can hold them nearer to dwelling. This may unlock vital efficiencies in all the provide chain and profit everybody within the transportation trade,” says Sasko Cuklev, Head of On-Highway Options.
