Posted on 03/10/2021 4:55:01 PM PST by re_tail20
The US Postal Service on Tuesday revealed its next-generation of mail trucks, the biggest step in a fleet-modernization effort years in the making. The agency awarded the long-awaited contract to build the new vehicles to defense contractor Oshkosh Defense.
Under the deal, the Postal Service will pay Oshkosh $482 million to finish designing the futuristic-looking truck — called the Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) — and build between 50,000 and 165,000 of them over the next decade. The first ones will hit streets in 2023, the Postal Service said.
For several years, the post office has planned to revamp its fleet and phase out its problematic, aging vehicles. The barebones Northrop Grumman trucks widely used today don't have air conditioning, compelling one mail carrier to cook a steak on a truck's sweltering dashboard to draw attention to the problem.
The vehicles were initially rated to have a 24-year lifespan, but the last deliveries happened in 1994. In recent years, they've been catching fire at an alarming rate, Vice reported.
The post office says the new trucks will have air conditioning, heating, better ergonomics, and more cargo room than outgoing vehicles. They'll also be equipped with safety features like 360-degree cameras, collision-avoidance, automatic braking, and traction control.
Oshkosh will build some of the trucks with electric powertrains and others with "fuel-efficient internal combustion engines" that can later be retrofitted to electric. The USPS did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment as to why it isn't planning to make all the new trucks electric, which would align with President Joe Biden's plan to electrify the entire federal government's fleet.
Electric-vehicle and clean-energy groups were let down by the news that the USPS isn't forging full-steam ahead on EVs.
"US Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is trying to lock our postal vehicle...
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Mail trucks are racists... too much white.
aint government grand? the postal service bleeds red every year, year in and year out, operates at a huge loss and yet, no one gets fired, no costs are cut and boom, new trucks for everyone... aint government grand.
Can’t deliver mail on time, always begging congress for money, yet they have 500,000 million around for new vehicles.
Oshgosh, b’gosh.
So the mail will be even more unreliable now.
$482 Million can’t be the total cost of the contract for 165,000 trucks. How much does each truck cost?
Photo of mail carrier delivering letter....
Says “Our new issues of our entire line of magazines will now be available as downloads only and no long available in print. We thank you for your 100 plus years of supporting our magazines.”
One under it says: “As of the first of next month we are switching to mandatory paperless automatic billing. Go online to read important information.”
Shouldn’t it be fe_mail truck?
Amen and awoman. /Emmanuel Cleaver (graduate of a liberal seminary, just in case that wasn’t already painfully obvious enough as is)
The article neglected to mention at the new Postal vehicles will be equipped with high-volume printers to automatically generate new Election ballots for timely delivery as necessary…
Mail truck....
Someone said in retrospect the guys in the old TV cop series SWAT looked like they were driving around in a UPS truck.
I guess unless they copy the Batmobile all delivery trucks end up similar looking.
It’s been done before and was a bust.
Unbelievable—these assclowns do nothing but beg for handouts, and they want a fleet of brand-new vehicles? Screw them.
Just imagine, an entire army of men in wool pants delivering Pottery Barn catalogues.
You like golf, Mr. Kramer?
Here’s how it will go down: You’ll be walking down the street on a crisp, clear autumn day. When a mailman you know, perhaps even trust, will offer to give you a ride.
anti-sexist reforming statement....
LOL
If you succeed in purging all of us, our posts will be totally free of sexism and racism——and will go unread.
Wool pants sound itchy.
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