The Boring Company Just Found a New Job for Its Tesla-Powered Tunnel Trucks

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The Boring Company wants to use its tunnels to move freight, and it has modified its latest Prufrock Liner Truck, which runs on Tesla Model 3 batteries and drive units, to carry a standard 20-foot shipping container.

That’s according to a post from The Boring Company on X on October 19, 2026, which came with a photo and a short video of the truck carrying the container.

“Using TBC tunnels to transport freight,” the company wrote. “The latest Prufrock Liner Truck (using Tesla Model 3 batteries and drive units) has been modified to carry a standard 20’ shipping container. Fits like a glove!”

The photo shows a red shipping container sitting on a long, low-slung white chassis parked outside, with a wheel and electric drive hardware visible at one end. The Boring Company didn’t say where or when it plans to start hauling freight underground, which customers it has in mind, or how many trucks it is converting.

Prufrock is the name of the company’s line of tunnel boring machines, and the liner trucks are the support vehicles that work alongside them. In Nashville, the company has been running Prufrock-MB1 and Prufrock-MB2 at the same time on the Music City Loop, and its October 1 project blog said Prufrock-MB3 would launch in late October while Prufrock-MB4 is being built.

The company’s best-known system is the Vegas Loop, which moves passengers in Tesla vehicles through tunnels under the Las Vegas Strip, the convention center campus and nearby resorts. In September, The Boring Company said the Vegas Loop’s station count will double by the end of the year, and it had already said Clark County entitled the network for 123 stations.

Using a tunnel for something other than passengers isn’t entirely new for the company, either. In 2024, Prufrock-3 finished the “Cybertunnel” at Tesla Giga Texas, built to move finished Cybertrucks from the end of the production line to the logistics lot without crossing the busy construction areas on site. Carrying shipping containers would take that idea from a single factory to cargo more broadly.

Would you like to see The Boring Company’s tunnels used for freight in your city?