Aurora and McLeod Software Deliver Industry’s First Transportation Management System for Self-Driving Trucks

PITTSBURGH & BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 28, 2025--

Aurora (NASDAQ: AUR), the leader in self-driving trucks, and McLeod Software, a premier provider of transportation management solutions, announce a strategic partnership to create the industry’s first Transportation Management System (TMS) for autonomous trucks. The collaboration lays the foundation for a superior user experience for mutual customers utilizing Aurora’s autonomous trucks, which will help increase industry adoption of self-driving trucking technology.

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Setting the Standard for Self-Driving Trucks

Self-driving trucks are designed to move freight safely, more efficiently, and around the clock, enabling carriers to significantly increase asset utilization and revenue. However, the technology must seamlessly integrate into customer’s existing operations and transportation management processes without adding unnecessary complexity or friction. Enter McLeod Software, the preferred TMS for more than 1,200 customers due to its robust platform and advanced tools for scheduling, dispatching, billing, and more.

With an API integration to Aurora’s technology, McLeod’s customers will be able to easily tender loads and benefit from enhanced real-time visibility into autonomous operations. The goal is to set a new standard for efficiency and ease-of-adoption for carriers interested in moving goods autonomously.

Seamless Integration to Accelerate Customer Adoption

The integration will enable mutual customers to utilize their McLeod TMS to manage critical processes such as load tender and acceptance of autonomous shipments, dispatch, and load visibility—making it easy for McLeod customers to onboard, manage, and integrate autonomous trucks into their business. Aurora will also be able to tap into McLeod’s deep roster of customers, further accelerating industry adoption of self-driving trucks.

"Our partnership with McLeod marks a key next step in delivering a premium, customer-centric product and service," said Ossa Fisher, President at Aurora. "By meeting customers where they are within their existing TMS, we're making it easy for them to tap into the safety and efficiency benefits of autonomous trucks."

"Integrating Aurora's autonomous capabilities into our TMS platform provides our customers with a pathway to adopt Autonomous Tractors within their operations," said Tom McLeod, Founder and CEO of McLeod Software. "This collaboration underscores our dedication to providing cutting-edge technology for our customers, empowering them to optimize their operations and embrace innovation with confidence."

About Aurora

Aurora (Nasdaq: AUR) is delivering the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly to make transportation safer, increasingly accessible, and more reliable and efficient than ever before. The Aurora Driver is a self-driving system designed to operate multiple vehicle types, from freight-hauling trucks to ride-hailing passenger vehicles, and underpins Aurora’s driver as a service products for trucking and ride-hailing. Aurora is working with industry leaders across the transportation ecosystem, including Continental, FedEx, Hirschbach, NVIDIA, PACCAR, Ryder, Schneider, Toyota, Uber, Uber Freight, Volvo Trucks, Volvo Autonomous Solutions, and Werner. To learn more, visit aurora.tech.

About McLeod Software

McLeod Software is transforming the trucking and transportation industry with the leading software for trucking dispatch operations management and freight brokerage management. Our customers use business process automation and insight from business intelligence to improve their customer service, attract and retain the best drivers, and automate their crucial business processes. Visit us at McLeodSoftware.com.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the United States federal securities laws. All statements contained in this press release that do not relate to matters of historical fact should be considered forward-looking statements, including but not limited to those statements around the benefits of our self-driving technology and products; the anticipated impact of Aurora and McLeod’s partnership and collaboration on the freight industry and market; our relationships with customers and the anticipated benefits they may derive from integrating Aurora’s autonomous capabilities into McLeod’s TMS platform; and the efficiency and effectiveness as a result of such integration. These statements are based on management’s current assumptions and are neither promises nor guarantees, but involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause our actual performance or achievements to be materially different from any future performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. For factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this press release, please see the risks and uncertainties identified under the heading “Risk Factors” section of Aurora Innovation, Inc.’s (“Aurora”) Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on February 14, 2025, and other documents filed by Aurora from time to time with the SEC, which are accessible on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. All forward-looking statements reflect our beliefs and assumptions only as of the date of this press release. Aurora undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.

Integration with McLeod’s Transportation Management System will give customers an effortless and seamless way to track and oversee autonomous truck operations (Photo credit: Aurora)

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People attend a candlelight vigil at US Embassy in London, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, for US Citizen Renee Good, who was shot by ICE in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

A person walks past signage for Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE officer earlier in the week, in Minneapolis, Minn., Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press via AP)