kscarbel2 Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Transport Topics / September 26, 2016 U.S. Taxpayers foot truckmaker’s R&D costs for new postal vehicles The U.S. Postal Service awarded contracts to six companies to produce prototype vehicles as part of a program to replace aging mail delivery trucks with vehicles that are better suited to carrying packages and that utilize alternative fuels. AM General, Karsan Pazalama A.S., Mahindra Group, Oshkosh Corp., Spartan Motors and VT Hackney will receive a total of $37.4 million to produce 50 prototypes over the next year. The vehicles will then be tested in a different climates, topography, population centers and delivery environments, a Postal Service spokesman said. Also, the Postal Service said it will seek bids for commercial off-the-shelf right-hand drive delivery vehicles and evaluate those vehicles alongside the prototypes to determine the type of vehicle best suited to replace nearly 180,000 mail trucks in the postal fleet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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