USPS awards LLV maker $257 million contract for Walk In Body Delivery Trucks
July 2, 2015 – USPS has awarded long-time supplier a contract for over 3,000 Walk In Body Intermediate Delivery Trucks. USPS will use Walk In Body Intermediate Delivery Trucks vehicles on multi-stop delivery, relay, collection, and parcel post routes.
According to reports, in 1984, Grumman Olson designed and developed the now famous USPS Long Life Vehicle (LLV), which earned Grumman the largest non-military vehicle contract in U.S. History. At that time, Grumman Allied, the parent company of Grumman Olson, was contracted by the USPS to produce over a $ billion prime order for more than 150,000 LLV’s.”Grumman, and now Morgan Olson, have provided continued support to the USPS to keep the aging fleet on the road well past the 20 year planned life of the LLV.”
USPS awards nearly $100 million in contracts for 4,000 Delivery Vehicles
Are they gonna provide air and a radio this time? How about built-in cameras and a GPS unit?
UPS # 1 end of story!
no mail no trucks no job get me outa here satanistic managment got 30 days postal vacation for telling my boss what he really is he should have been fired many times what a joke
you should have called the llv “infamous”. it is my understanding the usps cancelled the contract extension due to lack of cooperation. in fact the usps had the grumman nameplate removed from the llv’s. i can give you a “laundry list” of things wrong the the llv.
I drove the LLV vehicles 20 years ago and they were a safety hazard then. If the road are wet or icy they slide all over the place. Miles per gallon is like 10. Why does USPS keep buying vehicles from them?
That “math” comes out to $85,000 per vehicle. You guys don’t even get AC for that!
whew! glad it was the same company who designed the current junk we now drive and not someone else who probably could do a better job for a little more $….. and when are the additional 150,000 vehicles arriving?? or are we going to just replace 3000….. I have 17 years until retirement and I doubt I will ever see a different vehicle before I get there
So when are they to be delivered?
big deal. what about all the rest of the carriers? are they just supposed to keep using those broken down, gas guzzling garbage trucks? WTF?!
Hope the panic button comes with that $$$$$$$$$ !