'If the vehicles weighed just one pound less, they wouldn't be permitted on American roads because they pollute too much.'
Tuesday,"If the vehicles weighed just one pound less, they wouldn't be permitted on American roads because they pollute too much."
"According to [the Postal Service's] environmental review of the procurement, the new gas delivery trucks have a curb weight of 5,560 pounds and a payload of 2,941 pounds, for a combined vehicle weight of 8,501 pounds," Gordon wrote."That is almost double the weight of the current USPS delivery vehicle."
"However the USPS and Oshkosh Defense, the manufacturer, came to calculate the payload at 2,941 instead of 2940, it was an incredibly important pound," Gordon added."If the trucks had a gross vehicle weight of just .
The agreement with Oshkosh Defense currently includes an initial order of just 5,000 electric trucks, a small fraction of the total fleet.the order of a largely gas-powered delivery fleet as a"fiscally responsible" decision, pointing to the mail service's long-strained finances and arguing that an all-electric fleet would be too costly.