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. The aging fleet Most LLVs are Right Hand Delivery (RHD) vehicles that were purchased between 1987 and 1994.

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...

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...

Jul 31, 2023 · According to the Vice report, which cited thousands of USPS documents obtained by Freedom of Information Act requests, at least 407 right-hand drive LLVs have been damaged or destroyed in fires since 2014. That, the report said, is one mail truck fire every five days.

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.

Jul 8, 2020 · A United States Postal Service delivery truck. The USPS’s “Long Lasting Vehicle” delivery trucks, or LLVs, have been catching fire at a rate of approximately 70 per year since 2014. Shutterstock

Jul 10, 2020 · Hundreds of USPS delivery trucks were reported to catch fire in the past few years, a new report from Vice shows. The trucks are Grumman Long Life Vehicles and have a 24-year life expectancy. The...

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...

Nov 13, 2023 · Upon arrival, firefighters from Levittown Fire Company No. 2 found the engine compartment of the postal vehicle ablaze, the fire ... Postal truck fire in Hot Springs, Arkansas …

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.