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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * USA: USPS's
* DC - Post Office paid $287K for trucks it can’t find
(Photo by Adam Jeffery | CNBC: U.S. Postal Service trucks sit parked outside a station in Chelsea, New York)
Washington,DC,USA -CNBC, by Maureen Mackey -29 Aug 2014: -- The sum of $287,000 may seem like a tiny drop in the bucket when it comes to Washington's astronomical spending totals... But at a time when the United States Postal Service has been bleeding literally billions of dollars, spending even that amount on a fleet of vehicles it now cannot locate, and never actually could, is worth a bit of a pause... A report in Government Executive this morning notes that while USPS spends about $39 million a year to rent 10,000 trailers—the cargo bodies of its trucks—it also leased 35 trailers in fiscal years 2011 and 2012 to a distribution center in New Jersey... "There was one problem with these particular trailers, however: The Postal Service had no idea where they were, according to the agency's inspector general, or if it ever even received them from the leasing company," explained Government Executive...
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