Waymo and J.B. Hunt begin autonomous freight trials in Texas
Waymo and J.B. Hunt began using Waymo Driver-equipped Class 8 trucks to carry customer freight on the I-45 corridor between Houston and Fort Worth under human supervision.
TOWARD DOOM36confidence 94/100
Why it moved the index
The pilot placed autonomous trucking into a real customer freight workflow on a major commercial corridor, creating a path toward consequential logistics automation and labor substitution. Human supervision and limited trial scope reduce magnitude.
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- R1Toward 36 · confidence 94
New June 2021 autonomous-freight deployment absent from the durable corpus.
12 Aug 2026