Grumman LLV - Wikipedia
The Grumman Long Life Vehicle (LLV) is an American light transport truck model designed as a mail truck for the United States Postal Service, which has been its primary user since it first entered service in 1986, 39 years ago.
USPS Driver Survives Head-On Crash With Semi Truck - Jalopnik
Dec 27, 2022 · Those Grumman Long Life Vehicles (LLV) are even tougher than we thought. A USPS delivery driver survived a horrific head-on collision with a semi truck in Michigan Friday after Winter Storm...
Trucks on fire: USPS Long Life Vehicles outlive their lifespan
Jan 10, 2016 · Along with videos of letter carriers tossing packages and pictures of cars crashing into post offices, images of postal trucks on fire have become an Internet meme. Most LLVs are Right Hand Delivery (RHD) vehicles that were purchased between 1987 and 1994. They weren’t built to last forever.
US Postal Service’s Aging Trucks Keep Catching Fire - The Drive
Jul 8, 2020 · At least 407 LLVs have caught on fire since May 2014, according to government documents obtained by Vice through a Freedom of Information Act request. That’s approximately one LLV fire every...
USPS vehicles have been catching on fire for years with no recall ...
May 13, 2019 · That seems to be the case with the Grumman Long Life Vehicle (LLV) or as you probably know it, the Postal Service van, according to a report published on Monday by Trucks.com that alleges that...
Postal vehicles on fire - Postal Times
Nov 13, 2023 · At approximately 4 PM, a mail truck was spotted on fire at the Honeycutt Road and Highway 87 junction. Local ... Emergency crews are responding to a U.S. Postal Service mail delivery truck which is on fire on Roseland Park Road ...
United States Postal Service aging delivery vehicles causing ... - WWMT
Jan 16, 2020 · Since the crash, research by the National Association of Letter Carriers has revealed the existence of growing fire concerns over the Long Life Vehicles. Many have been in service for more than...
The U.S. Postal Service Doesn't Know Why Its Trucks Keep
May 14, 2019 · At least 120 delivery trucks operated by the U.S. Postal Service have caught fire within the past five years, and it's likely there have been more during this truck's 30-plus-year life span,...
Post Office Delivery Trucks Keep Catching on Fire
Jul 7, 2020 · All three of those trucks, which were destroyed in fires within a 72-hour period, were the iconic USPS Long Life Vehicles, or LLVs, featuring right-side driver seats so letter carriers can easily...
Post Office Fiddles While Its Mail Trucks Burn
Twenty-six of the U.S. Postal Service’s aging Grumman LLV delivery trucks have caught fire so far this year, according to a tally by Postal Times. That makes 145 since 2014.