# Waymo Via (autonomous trucking) at Texas: deployment

Canonical ID: `05e4b289-a603-45a4-be4b-aa7b11bd5b81`

Waymo Via autonomous-trucking freight pilots in Texas with J.B. Hunt (later adding Wayfair) and UPS, running Class 8 trucks on the Waymo Driver with a CDL driver and software technician aboard. Ended when Waymo suspended the Via trucking program in July 2023 to focus on robotaxi.

## Key facts

- **Partners:** J.B. Hunt, Wayfair, UPS (pilots)
- **Status:** Supervised pilot; ENDED July 2023 (program suspended)

**Trust tier:** Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified

_Last updated: 2026-05-31_

- **Slug:** waymo-via-jb-hunt-texas
- **Status:** ended
- **Model:** [Waymo Via (autonomous trucking)](/models/waymo-via.md) (id: `8bc88129-5b50-4ac9-85fa-64438647ce0f`)
- **Company:** [Waymo](/companies/waymo.md) (id: `2128addc-20c8-4c31-aef5-be5ada97aede`)
- **Location:** [Texas](/locations/united-states/texas.md) (id: `45f67762-10f4-4255-be84-45c73efe25f9`)
- **First seen:** 2022-01-14T12:00:00.000Z

## Verification log (0, append-only)

_No verifications recorded._

## Sources (2)

1. https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/14/j-b-hunt-will-be-waymos-first-self-driving-freight-customer/
2. https://www.truckingdive.com/news/waymo-shifts-away-from-autonomous-trucking-development-focus/689134/

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