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Oct 28, 2015

TRUCK SALES * USA: 15 truckmakers to produce prototypes for USPS

* Could the Next Generation Delivery Vehicle be the next USPS mail truck?


-- For an organization with longstanding financial troubles, the United States Postal Service has managed to attract a lot of attention with a proposed delivery truck it calls the NGDV... That’s the newest postal acronym for Next Generation Delivery Vehicle — a bigger, but not sleeker, delivery truck that the cash-strapped Postal Service wants to buy for residential deliveries... With the prospect of a $4.5 billion to $6 billion price tag, the USPS has Detroit’s truck industry salivating — despite the agency’s low credit rating... The 15 truck makers who have qualified for the first round of competition must have visions of Congress finally coming to the aid of the Postal Service, which long has complained that its current fleet of 200,000 delivery vehicles has literally run out of gas... The NGDVs are to be a giant order for customized postal delivery trucks needed to replace the somewhat squat delivery trucks in the fleet, and to help the USPS move the increasing number of parcels in the mail... The USPS hopes to place the first of the NGDVs in service in 2018... Truck makers are being advised that they’ll be expected to produce prototype vehicles that can be subjected to what the USPS describes as a “24,000 mile durability test” at a testing facility yet to be disclosed... 
(Image courtesy of todaysmotorvehicles.com. -- The United States Postal Service wants to replace its aging fleet of mail delivery trucks with a more spacious model dubbed the Next Generation Delivery Vehicle. An explosion in the growth of package mail, among other developments, is spurring the USPS to acquire bigger trucks. The USPS hopes to place the first of the NGDVs in service in 2018)   --  Washington, DC, USA - Linn's Stamp, by Bill McAllister - October 27, 2015

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