Volvo Autonomous Solutions (VAS) is partnering with driving software company Aurora Innovation to roll out a new 200-mile autonomous truck route between Dallas, Texas, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

According to a May 4 release from Aurora, the program will support trips five days a week, using Volvo's VNL semi-trucks running on Aurora's autonomous driving platform, and supervised by a human in the cab of each vehicle. The route will move drayage cargo directly to customer facilities without additional handoffs at freight hubs.

“Expanding our operations into Oklahoma City and adding customer endpoints is an important step for scaling autonomous transport,” said VAS head of on-road solutions Sasko Cuklev. "Running end-to-end requires a higher level of operational precision and integration, and it further demonstrates how autonomous trucks can operate reliably in real logistics environments."

Aurora also announced a separate partnership with food distributor McLane Company on May 6, to start driverless hauls in Texas. This comes after the companies conducted a supervised autonomy pilot in 2023, where Aurora logged more than 280,000 miles across 1,400 loads for McLane. Aurora says that it also plans to expand to autonomous routes between McLane distribution centers in the U.S. Sun Belt region in the near future.