Partnership
Schneider National x Aurora Innovation
Schneider National and Aurora Innovation launched a multiphase commercial pilot in August 2022 to autonomously haul freight between Dallas and Houston using the Aurora Driver on Peterbilt 579M trucks, with weekly autonomous hauls and Aurora vehicle operators on board.
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- deployment
- Status
- Activeoperating
- Announced
- 2022-08-014.1 years ago
- Start
- 2022-08-014.1 years ago
- Active for
- 4.1 years
Who’s involved
Schneider National, Inc. (NYSE: SNDR) is a premier multimodal transportation and logistics provider headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin, with approximately $6 billion in annual revenue and a fleet of over 21,000 vehicles. The company is actively deploying autonomous trucking technology through partnerships with [Aurora Innovation](/companies/aurora) (Dallas-Houston freight pilot since 2022) and [Torc Robotics](/companies/torc-robotics) (Level 4 pilot since 2022), and previously partnered with TuSimple. Schneider hauls freight on over 9.3 million miles daily for Fortune 500 customers across North America.
Most-frequent partners
American autonomous-trucking company (Nasdaq: AUR), founded 2017 by [Chris Urmson](/people/chris-urmson), [Sterling Anderson](/people/sterling-anderson), and [Drew Bagnell](/people/drew-bagnell). Developer of the [Aurora Driver](/brains/aurora-driver) (SAE Level 4), which it integrates onto PACCAR, International, and Volvo trucks. Launched the first commercial driverless freight service in the US (Dallas-Houston, May 2025) and is scaling an observer-free fleet on a 2nd-generation [International LT platform](/models/aurora-international-lt).
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