TuSimple announces restructuring, 25% workforce reduction

TuSimple announced a restructuring plan designed to set the company on the course to long-term success as a leader in the autonomous trucking industry. The announced restructuring plan involves a 25% reduction of TuSimple’s total workforce. 80 percent of the remaining staff are in research and development, and many of these are engineers critical to hardware and software resilience, reliability, safety, and information security. TuSimple plans to actively work with key shipping partners to operationalize its autonomous technology, and in an effort to help ensure capital efficiency, the company also plans to scale back freight expansion, including unprofitable freight lanes and respective trucking operations. Trucking operations along those lanes utilize previous generation autonomous software that provides limited value to the Company’s on-going technology development. The majority of the restructuring is in the Company’s U.S. operations as the Company continues its plan to explore strategic alternatives for its Asia business, including a divestiture.