The trucks are getting rave reviews from letter carriers, according to sources.
The U.S. Postal Service's next-generation delivery vehicle is displayed at the Kokomo Sorting and Delivery Center in Kokomo, Ind., Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. ATHENS, Ga. — The Postal Service's new delivery vehicles aren't going to win a beauty contest.
Once fully deployed, they'll represent one of the most visible signs of the agency's 10-year, $40 billion transformation led by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who's also renovating aging facilities, overhauling the processing and transportation network, and instituting other changes. The new trucks are being built with comfort, safety and utility in mind by Oshkosh Defense in South Carolina.
"I promise you, it felt like heaven blowing in my face," Stonum said of her first experience working in an air-conditioned truck. Environmentalists were outraged when DeJoy announced that 90% of the next-gen vehicles in the first order would be gas-powered. Lawsuits were filed demanding that the Postal Service further electrify its fleet of more than 200,000 vehicles to reduce tailpipe emissions.The problem, Dejoy said, wasn't that he didn't want electric vehicles.
"With the climate crisis at our doorsteps, electrifying the U.S. government's largest fleet will deliver the progress we've been waiting for," said Katherine García of the Sierra Club, which sued the Postal Service before its decision to boost the volume of electric vehicle purchases.
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