Self-driving truck firm TuSimple lays off most of its Tucson employees

Self-driving truck developer TuSimple is looking to sell off its U.S. operations, including a major research center and freight terminal in Tucson where it laid off most employees not long after a major expansion just last year. TuSimple said the layoffs would drop its total U.S. workforce to 220 from 550 employees. Clawing backAmid the mass layoffs, TuSimple is in apparent violation of a February 2021 incentive agreement based on job creation. In December, the company said it had decided to drop its “unprofitable” truck routes, and focus on providing industry partners with its self-driving truck technology. TuSimple had an agreement with truckmaker Navistar to build autonomous driving technology into its trucks, but the companies ended that pact in December.