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Sunday, February 16, 2025

UPS Invests in TuSimple

 

UPS recently announced its venture capital arm, UPS Ventures, has made a minority investment in autonomous driving company, TuSimple, to test self-driving tractor-trailers on a route in Arizona to determine whether the vehicles can improve efficiency in their network.

The investment amount was not disclosed.

UPS contracts with third-party trucking companies during its peak shipping season—TuSimple believes it could cut average purchased transportation costs by 30%.

“UPS is committed to developing and deploying technologies that enable us to operate our global logistics network more efficiently,” Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, Scott Price said in a company release. “While fully autonomous, driverless vehicles still have development and regulatory work ahead, we are excited by the advances in braking and other technologies that companies like TuSimple are mastering.

All of these technologies offer significant safety and other benefits that will be realized long before the full vision of autonomous vehicles is brought to fruition—and UPS will be there as a leader implementing these new technologies in our fleet.”

TuSimple was founded in 2015 and intends to bring the first Class 8 self-driving truck to market, to increase safety, decrease transportation costs, and reduce carbon emissions.

“We are honoured by UPS’ strategic investment and their vote of confidence in TuSimple. This proves their commitment to staying at the forefront of innovation,” TuSimple Founder and President, Xiaodi Hou said. “TuSimple is confident that it can accelerate bringing the first self-driving truck to market to increase road safety.”