The beleaguered U.S. Postal Service said it will test autonomous 18-wheelers from TuSimple in a two-week pilot between distribution centers in Phoenix and Dallas.
The trial will include five 2000-mile, 22-hour roundtrips in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. According to TuSimple, the freight that moves along the I-10 corridor—a 2500-mile route from Jacksonville, Fla. to Santa Monica, Calif.—accounts for 60 percent of the economic activity in the U.S., so TuSimple expects this to be a central route moving forward.
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