Autonomous trucking collaboration is expanding. Bot Auto announced Thursday a strategic partnership with Ryan Transportation to launch driverless autonomous freight operations. The Houston-based autonomous trucking and technology company and the Overland Park, Kansas-based top 20 freight brokerage will launch driverless autonomous freight operations between Houston and Dallas.<\/p>\n
The release notes that Ryan Transportation has emerged as a pioneering brokerage partner willing to showcase the viability of autonomous trucking capacity paired with traditional brokerage operations. The driverless runs are expected to begin this spring.<\/p>\n
Bot Auto\u2019s deployment will center on an overnight lane starting in Houston before delivering into the southern Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The corridor, roughly 200 miles, has historically been difficult to service with human drivers due to tight delivery windows.<\/p>\n
Overnight lanes are also challenging from an hours-of-service standpoint, as most drivers operate during daytime shifts, making an overnight run more limited. Driver fatigue is another constraint that Bot Auto\u2019s driverless trucks don\u2019t contend with.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an opportunity to provide a high level of service on a lane for a customer who demands essential attention to detail, and our autonomous technology does exactly that,\u201d said Robert Brown, vice president of business development at Bot Auto. \u201cThe overnight run is a perfect use case; the robot doesn\u2019t get tired, doesn\u2019t need a reset, and delivers with the same precision every single time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The partnership marks another milestone for Bot Auto, which last July partnered with Steves & Sons to launch an autonomous trucking pilot<\/a>. The company also completed its first driverless hub-to-hub run in Houston, Texas, last September<\/a>.<\/p>\n More recently, the company partnered with Marsh for a custom autonomous truck fleet insurance package.<\/p>\n Marsh worked with<\/a> Bot Auto to place its insurance program with an A-rated insurance carrier that underwrites the risk. The specialized plan provides Bot Auto with auto liability, property, general liability, cargo and inland marine protection, complemented by a separate cyber policy.<\/p>\n The post Bot Auto, Ryan Transportation partner on driverless freight between Houston and Dallas<\/a> appeared first on FreightWaves<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Autonomous trucking collaboration is expanding. Bot Auto announced Thursday a strategic partnership with Ryan Transportation to launch driverless…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[72150,47435,17692,72149,56,58,57,72152,72148,72151],"class_list":["post-179784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-autonomous-technology","tag-bot-auto","tag-driverless-trucks","tag-freight-brokerage","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-robert-brown","tag-ryan-transportation","tag-technology-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}