# Aurora Driver on Peterbilt 579 (PACCAR) at Texas: deployment

Canonical ID: `8ffb860b-9a68-46ae-a0ed-5941df7ae2cc`

Aurora autonomous freight with Werner Enterprises: a supervised commercial pilot from April 2022 on the Fort Worth-El Paso lane, later extended toward a roughly 1,000-mile Phoenix lane, and continuing as part of Aurora's commercial driverless network.

## Key facts

- **Operator:** Werner Enterprises (Nasdaq: WERN)
- **Lanes:** Fort Worth-El Paso (since 2022); extended ~1,000-mile Phoenix lane

**Trust tier:** Catalog entry · 3 sources · not yet field-verified

_Last updated: 2026-05-31_

- **Slug:** aurora-werner-texas
- **Status:** active
- **Model:** [Aurora Driver on Peterbilt 579 (PACCAR)](/models/aurora-peterbilt-579.md) (id: `4c3a9674-a145-4658-bd15-20fde74a2d44`)
- **Company:** [Aurora Innovation](/companies/aurora.md) (id: `de66897b-6e6a-4761-af96-ef293f25a44a`)
- **Location:** [Texas](/locations/united-states/texas.md) (id: `45f67762-10f4-4255-be84-45c73efe25f9`)
- **Operator:** [Werner Enterprises](/companies/werner-enterprises.md) (id: `d683961e-cd95-43cf-af8f-1735927f66b9`)
- **First seen:** 2022-04-06T12:00:00.000Z

## Verification log (0, append-only)

_No verifications recorded._

## Sources (3)

1. https://ir.aurora.tech/news-events/press-releases/detail/38/aurora-and-werner-launch-commercial-pilot-to-autonomously
2. https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/06/aurora-launches-autonomous-freight-pilot-with-werner-expands-terminal-network/
3. https://www.truckingdive.com/news/aurora-werner-pilot-extends-phoenix-arizona-q1-2025-earnings/747986/

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