Waymo announced Wednesday a partnership with Ryder for fleet management services, including fleet maintenance, inspections, and roadside assistance, across all of its Waymo Via hubs and testing sites. Leaning on Ryder's network of more than 500 facilities for standardized fleet maintenance across one network, Waymo said, will "enable us to scale efficiently."
With Ryder, Waymo said it is "developing first-of-their-kind best practices for autonomous truck maintenance that will maximize vehicle uptime and reliability and ensure a seamless and efficient experience for our customers."
Over the course of a decade, Waymo has driven more than 20 million miles on public roads across 10 U.S. states and 20 billion miles in simulation.
Ryder will conduct regularly scheduled preventive maintenance and as-needed incidental maintenance, and the two companies will work together to refine and evolve guidelines for Ryder’s technicians’ maintenance practices on Waymo’s unique autonomously driven vehicles. "Longer term, we’ll be able to optimize the performance of our autonomous trucks by combining Ryder’s deep maintenance expertise and Waymo’s proprietary AV fleet data to create solutions tailored for Waymo’s technology," Waymo said.
The two companies will partner on servicing and evolving maintenance practices for autonomously driven trucks across Waymo Via sites in Texas, Arizona, California, Michigan, and Ohio, as well as roadside service between hubs. Over time, the companies see opportunity to expand collaboration to accelerate the broad deployment of autonomous trucks.
