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Oshkosh unveils new USPS trucks [replacing Grumman & Jeep]

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Tarh331_Dad, Sep 17, 2024.

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  1. Sep 17, 2024 #1
    Tarh331_Dad

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    Last edited: Sep 17, 2024
    Reason for edit: to insert a picture of the new Oshkosh trucks
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  3. Sep 17, 2024 #2
    Tarh331_Dad

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    The Wikipedia article has some technical information about the old Grummans; apparently they were largely a GM chassis with an aluminum body by Grumman.

    Grumman LLV - Wikipedia

    Engine
    2.2 L (134 cu in) LN2 I4
    2.5 L (151 cu in) LN8/L38 I4

    Transmission
    3-speed GM TH180 automatic

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    Here's the tech stuff for the new Oshkosh trucks...

    Oshkosh NGDV - Wikipedia

    Engine: 2.0 L (122 cu in) Ford EcoBoost (ICE)
    Electric motor: Bosch permanent-magnet
    Transmission: 8F35 8-speed automatic (ICE)
    Battery: 94 kW-hr Li-ion
    Electric range: 70 mi (110 km) (est.)
     
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  4. Sep 17, 2024 #3
    Crude Truckin'

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    Looks like something NASA would have used to take the mercury astronauts to the launch pad.
     
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  5. Sep 17, 2024 #4
    201

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    Dang, and I thought it was made in Wisconsin. Another site mentioned this, and how refreshing, an entity that lost $6.8 BILLION last year, is ordering 50,000 of these at a cost of $60,000 each, or $2.98 Billion dollars. I don't know, sounds like investing in a dinosaur if you ask me.:dontknow:
     
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  7. Sep 17, 2024 #5
    abyliks

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    Couldn’t imagine having the sun beat that giant windshield all day…
     
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    201

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    Wasn't that one of the creeds, "not rain or snow, nor heat or gloom of night",,,besides, I believe, for the 1st time, a postal carrier has A/C.
     
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  9. Sep 17, 2024 #7
    Ridgeline

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    Will it help USPS improve services?

    No.

    Here in the sticks we don't get our mail daily, sometimes it is a three-day gap.

    I asked my mail carrier, and she said they gave her two other routes, one short one and one longer one than ours, and she has to fit it all in. She said some days are 10 hours a day.
     
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  10. Sep 17, 2024 #8
    Tarh331_Dad

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    I've heard that if you can deal with the "office politics" and all the backstabbing and the lousy hateful incompetent supervisors, if you can deal with all that nonsense, then the fringe benefits and the pensions for USPS employees are off-the-charts.

    The other thing that really worries me about a career as a USPS mail deliverer would be if I were at a full-stop to open a mailbox on the right side of a rural road, and being sort of physically "naked" in the road, so to speak, but there's a Karen flying down the road, behind me, in an 8000-lb SUV, at 45MPH to 55MPH or more, and she's thumb-TXTing the guy with whom she's cheating on her husband, and she forgets to look up, and she slams into me at 50MPH or more, and that's the end of me.

    The article about the new Oshkosh platforms does seem to indicate that they put some thought into the new bumpers.

    Hopefully that will save a lot of lives.
     
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  11. Sep 17, 2024 #9
    Cattleman84

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    Had a good friend that was a postal carrier for over 20 years... He had to provide his own vehicle for his rural mail delivery route.
     
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  12. Sep 17, 2024 #10
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    Our carriers supply their own vehicles here for the most part. They get extra pay for a vehicle that is plenty enough to pay for one and some. Few of em lease I vehicle for it, and in a couple years after hitting stuff all down the side and stop/starting hundreds of times a day, they are rolling scrap heaps.
     
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