Driverless Electric Trucks Are Now Hauling Freight Daily in Ohio — With Nobody in the Cab

Einride and EASE Logistics announced on October 5–6, 2026, that two SAE Level 4 autonomous, cab-less electric trucks are now live in daily freight operations between EASE warehouses in Marysville, Ohio. The trucks run scheduled routes on EASE property and local public roads, carrying freight between EASE facilities. Nobody rides in the vehicle: a remote operator monitors each truck off-site and can step in if needed. Operations began generating data in September, building on a deployment the companies announced in May 2026.

The deployment sits inside the Truck Automation Corridor Project, an $8.8 million, multi-year initiative launched in 2021 by the Ohio Department of Transportation, DriveOhio and the Indiana Department of Transportation to prepare Ohio and Indiana interstates for automated freight. It is EASE’s third autonomous trucking deployment with DriveOhio. The companies plan to use operational data from daily service — miles driven, loads moved and uptime — to guide the next phase and to inform discussions with the state agencies and prospective logistics partners about scaling autonomous freight across the region.

The honest limits are as important as the headline. This is a two-truck pilot on short warehouse-to-warehouse runs in one town, partly on private property and partly on local public roads — not interstate freight, which remains the corridor project’s goal. Neither company has published route lengths, speeds, daily loads, miles, uptime, remote-operator intervention rates or safety outcomes for the deployment. “Daily” describes the schedule, not yet a performance record. The number that will decide the business is supervision per truck, and that number is still unpublished.