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It would appear Arizona is further cementing itself as ground zero for the testing of self-driving vehicles.

TuSimple, a San Diego-based self-driving truck company that operates its autonomous trucks out of Tucson, has been hauling loads for UPS between Phoenix and Tucson since May. The tests, a company spokesperson told 12 News, are going “very well.”

The company said it started making non-autonomous deliveries back in March for UPS as a way to map out routes, collect data, and learn the “UPS process.” Daily autonomous runs began in May between Tucson and Phoenix with a driver and an engineer in the truck.

United Parcel Service Inc., Atlanta, issued $1.5 billion in bonds and plans to use part of the net proceeds from the sale to make early contributions to its U.S. pension plans, the company disclosed in a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

UPS specifically intends to use the bond proceeds “to make early contributions to certain of our primary domestic pension plans, to repay commercial paper and for general corporate purposes,” the Tuesday filing said.

“The offering closed today and we issued $1.5 billion in long-term debt with varying maturities,” a UPS spokesman said in an email Friday. “UPS routinely accesses public debt markets to satisfy its capital requirements,” the spokesman later added.

SHOCKING footage shows a reckless delivery driver force his way in front of an HGV in dual carriageway roadworks before brake-checking the lorry.

The UPS driver was apparently furious at the HGV for not giving way, even though the lorry driver had let another vehicle in front as they approached the roadworks.

The clip shows the van driver come within inches of the cones and the HGV and he desperately battles to get ahead.

Having done that, the UPS driver risks a pile up by deliberately hitting his brakes.