Covenant and Aurora announce collaboration to transform long haul trucking
Pittsburgh, United States – Aurora Innovation Inc. and Covenant Logistics Group, Inc. announced a collaboration to explore ways to optimise Covenant’s long haul operations with Aurora’s autonomous trucking product.
The two companies will explore the integration and deployment of Aurora horizon within Covenant’s operations. Part of Covenant’s diversified services is long haul trucking, making the benefits of autonomous technology in its network especially attractive. A hybrid model that blends trucks driven by humans with trucks driven autonomously would allow Covenant to realise the best of both and potentially expand its business with a combination of rapid, high efficiency autonomous transport on long haul routes and flexible human navigation at the endpoints.
The collaboration will initially focus on driving value, efficiency, and education by:
- Identifying the lanes where the Aurora driver can make the biggest impact while improving driver quality of life.
- Optimising fuel efficiency and maximising the up-time of Covenant’s fleet with Aurora horizon, built for 24/7/365 operation.
- Collaborating on how to effectively educate the transportation and logistics industry on the benefits of autonomous technology, especially on long haul lanes.
“Covenant is excited to be collaborating with Aurora on autonomous technology to find ways to further improve efficiency within the supply chain for our drivers, customers, environment, and industry,” says Joey Hogan, president of Covenant. “We believe this technology has the potential to optimise operations and reduce fuel consumption while also helping our drivers, both in safety and quality of life. We are looking forward to working with Aurora to realise the expected potential of this autonomous technology.”
“Covenant has built an extraordinary business in expedited shipping that will benefit from a product that safely, reliably, and tirelessly hauls goods at all hours of the day,” says Sterling Anderson, Aurora’s co-founder and chief product officer. “We’re designing Aurora Horizon to excel in applications like these and we’re happy to partner with a leading expedited carrier in Covenant to fine-tune and integrate it with their business.”
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