The future is here, and it’s being parked right here in Dallas.
The Dallas-based company Aurora has opened its first commercial-ready terminal for driverless trucks in Texas, with plans on having a totally autonomous truck route between Dallas and Houston by the end of 2024.
According to Business Wire, the terminal is located at 8060 N. Interstate 45 Service Road in Palmer, and is already deploying trucks pulling freight for FedEx, Schneider, and Uber Freight between Dallas and Houston.
Kendra Phillips, vice president of service delivery at Aurora, said, “The terminals are really essential to how we operate.
“Another big piece of Aurora’s strategy is that we want to own and operate our initial terminal so that we get it right. Right to us means providing a service that drives our customer’s vehicle uptime and high utilization.”
Aurora currently operates four terminals in Texas: in Dallas, Houston, Fort Worth and El Paso.
Phillips says the South Dallas terminal is a “blueprint” for Aurora’s future network of terminals.
The South Dallas terminal “has all of the tools, features, functionalities, processes, people, to ensure that [Aurora] can perform all of the autonomous activities at the terminal, perform all the traditional transportation activities at the terminal and allow customers to run their load as they normally would in their supply chain through our terminal network with [Aurora’s] autonomous trucks,” she says.
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