Today, Aurora operates what it calls a transportation-as-a-service business — a proof-of-concept model that it plans to limit to about 500 trucks. It owns and operates the self-driving trucks and charges its customers, including Detmar Logistics, Hirschbach, McLane, and Werner about a $2 per mile, a rate that includes a fuel surcharge. That works out to roughly the same rates as other carriers' typical pricing. The real shift — and the real savings, Maday says — will happen next year as when Aurora begins m ...