Waymo will connect its autonomous trucking operation to Uber Freight, the logistics business owned by the ride-hailing firm, a few months after the companies ended a bitter legal fight over self-driving technology.

The companies announced Tuesday a “deep, long-term partnership.” In the deal, carriers that use self-driving tech from Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo will be able to join the network from Uber Freight, which serves as a broker among truckers and shipping firms. The companies said in a statement that they will also work on a service to provide “easy and fast transfers between” autonomous systems and human drivers.

Trucking is one of the main applications of self-driving technology that investors see primed for commercial success. Waymo, one of a few leading contenders in the field, has been testing big rigs in Texas. A Waymo spokesperson said the company’s trucking service, Waymo Via, will be running on Uber Freight’s network within the year. The companies didn’t share financial details of the partnership.

Uber Technologies Inc. once worked on self-driving trucks and cars, but has since sold off that unit in a broader move to shed assets and cut costs. Uber Freight, launched in 2017, pairs trucking companies with those seeking to transport loads. The business is a standalone subsidiary of Uber, which in 2020 sold a stake in the unit. At the time, Uber Freight was valued around $4 billion, Bloomberg News reported. Last year, Uber Freight acquired Transplace, a logistics company owned by TPG Capital, for $2.25 billion.

One reason Uber shuttered its autonomous efforts was a massive lawsuit from Waymo, which accused Uber and an engineer it had hired of stealing self-driving technology. Uber agreed to pay Waymo $245 million in stock and settled the full litigation in February.