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The old trucks specially the small ones were awesome their turning radius was incredible a small s10 with a shorter wheel base is all it was and they’ve lasted decades.
I can see why they have specially dedicated and built vehicles, mail delivery in the rural areas I know used them only inside of towns outside they used contractors who would drive their own cars buying the right hand drive models of cars to do that particular job.
But I can also see the idiocy of having a specially dedicated vehicle built for this. What’s the point? Just buy transit vans for the job and for bigger deliveries use the same vans all vendors and distributors like ups, fed ex or even Amazon use. The so called long live won’t be worth it in the price tag compared to just buying a brand new van every five years and selling the old one in bulk like they do with police cars.
I assume there is a particular budgetary reason for all this, like you’re allowed unlimited maintenance but not vehicle purchase. Electric would present long life just by definition because all you’d need is to change the battery. They could even force the creation of a easily service replaceable battery for it to become a standard. Who knows, maybe they know what they’re doing better than me.
