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Would you like a shelving system in your LLV?

In July, Wheeler Bros., Inc. (WBI) was awarded a delivery order to supply 10,000 engineered shelving kits to the United States Postal Service for use in the Long Life Delivery Vehicles (LLV). This delivery order has a value of $2.9 million, with an option to purchase up to 40,000 additional kits following the initial delivery. See more

Check out the photo below to see what shelves in an LLV are like. Would these get in your way, or do you think you would welcome some shelves to help with space to put the increased parcel volumes?

 

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Laura Harmon
Laura Harmon
9 years ago

how about decent trucks instead,of putting money into stupid stuff! oh maybe a safer vehicle with heating and air??

Rachel Rowe
Rachel Rowe
9 years ago

I would be thrilled with an llv that doesnt die at every stop.

Amy DuMont Griffin
Amy DuMont Griffin
Reply to  Rachel Rowe
9 years ago

I am with you on this one! Have had problems with mine so they took it and gave me a replacement until they could figure out what the problem was. The replacement did it, too, so now I don’t have a vehicle!

Carol Schoeler Marchand
Carol Schoeler Marchand
9 years ago

Heck yeah!

Camille Campo Cowap
Camille Campo Cowap
9 years ago

Yes!

Jason T. Combs
Jason T. Combs
9 years ago

they spent the $$$ already, where is my shelving ?

Lynn Barton Klenow
Lynn Barton Klenow
9 years ago

No I have a system

Kendall White
Kendall White
9 years ago

I want A/C !

Rayma Lynn LePoris
Rayma Lynn LePoris
9 years ago

Waste of money

Igor Zapadinsky
Igor Zapadinsky
Reply to  Rayma Lynn LePoris
9 years ago

Rayma, correct! Very much waste!

Travis Clark
Travis Clark
9 years ago

Might be helpful around Christmas time, otherwise probably not

Lisa Ann Cogan
Lisa Ann Cogan
9 years ago

Would love to have this!!!

Adam Ruiz
Adam Ruiz
9 years ago

I don’t want shelves, why don’t they spend that money on getting us new vehicles

Timothy Dugan
Timothy Dugan
9 years ago

hmmmm sounds like we would have to try it to see if we like it

Carol Cummings
Carol Cummings
9 years ago

They look as useless as the tray up front. Can’t use them for much and can’t get around them either!

Ken Boyd
Ken Boyd
9 years ago

I WANT SHELVES!!!

SueAnne LaFond
SueAnne LaFond
9 years ago

The lip is about a half inch. I used my shelves for the first time today. The parcels I put on them stayed put. Another carrier in my office loves hers. The shelves fold up so if you don’t want to use them you don’t need to. They run the length of the truck. I actually keep a hand truck in my vehicle so I’m only able to fold one shelf down, but I was pleased with the extra room it provided.

Terry O'Meara
Terry O'Meara
Reply to  SueAnne LaFond
9 years ago

I have a hand truck that folds up and fits behind my seat. It was $25 at Sam’s Club and WELL worth it. It’s heavy duty with good sized wheels, unlike those c**ppy luggage carts.

Donna M Keller
Donna M Keller
9 years ago

No I don’t have a need for it

Cindy Hier
Cindy Hier
9 years ago

Or give myself concussions! BUT I don’t drive LLV’s very often (depending on the route that I sub) so maybe I’d get used to it if I did.

Cindy Hier
Cindy Hier
9 years ago

I am pretty sure that would be another thing to knock myself and give myself black and blues with!!!

Jay Schreiber
Jay Schreiber
9 years ago

How about 3 on each side to put your parcels in route order, with a half inch lip to keep them from sliding over the edge?

Cathee
Cathee
9 years ago

I’d rather have a side handle and a step at the back b*mper so I can get in and out.

Terry O'Meara
Terry O'Meara
9 years ago

Do these work in FFV’s?

Charlotte DeZern Daniels
Charlotte DeZern Daniels
9 years ago

Need air more. A cup holder for lg bottles of water would be nice. Radio. I suck at singing. Adjustable mail tray. The shelves would be ok if there was netting to hold pkgs to keep from falling. A clean llv would be nice.

Adele Bodanza
Adele Bodanza
Reply to  Charlotte DeZern Daniels
9 years ago

+Although I don’t care about a radio (I use my iphone w portable speakers), your other suggestions sound more than logical! cup holder would be useful in preventing dehydration (I don’t have time to search for my water bottle when it’s bouncing all over the truck. Also, the shelves with a net is a novel idea in that it would keep the packages organized and help in the damage control department. Btw, is there any way of quieting the fan a bit…??

Tina Tucker-Phelps
Tina Tucker-Phelps
9 years ago

I would like to have 4×4, Air Conditioning, a place to put my forms I have to use everyday. A holder for my scanner and pens.

Scott Calvin
Scott Calvin
9 years ago

They are probably great I’m guessing for smaller peeps, more sc**pes and bruises for me. Folding means moving parts. Which means pinched fingers, broken parts. Not interested in them at all.

Steve Whiskey Kelly
Steve Whiskey Kelly
9 years ago

No. It will take up too much room.

Beth Anne Jobes
Beth Anne Jobes
9 years ago

I heard you turn a corner and they fall off shelf..The Wheeler Bros. got, I believe, 2.9 million dollars from a contract with usps..then the next day I read the that USPS is going to by new fleet of LLV’S. I’m confused. .again..lol

Sue
Sue
Reply to  Beth Anne Jobes
9 years ago

The new vehicles will be for city carriers and then rurals will get the old city ones. Red-headed step children factor.

Doug Horton
Doug Horton
9 years ago

No, But a radio would be nice.

Pamela Matiz
Pamela Matiz
9 years ago

would love it, send some to Bogart, GA

Terry O'Meara
Terry O'Meara
9 years ago

It would be nice if they worked in FFV’s.

Beth Anne Jobes
Beth Anne Jobes
9 years ago

SICK LEAVE CALLING

Marie Evans McCarty
Marie Evans McCarty
9 years ago

I want a/c…4wheel drive for winters…

Sharon Tuley Kutella
Sharon Tuley Kutella
9 years ago

NEW LLVs would be a much better investment !!

Rebecca Asher
Rebecca Asher
9 years ago

Nope

Debbie Richard
Debbie Richard
9 years ago

I would like them for the Christmas load and on days we have Red Plums….I hate those papers every week!!!

Mike Varda
Mike Varda
9 years ago

The new shelving will work great for laying on while waiting for the tow truck.

Jim Davis
Jim Davis
9 years ago

City carriers will get the new vehicles… We get “shelves.”

Suzanne Holbrook Donnelly
Suzanne Holbrook Donnelly
9 years ago

Are we suppose to clean the llv’s ourselves. My is so dirty and dusty. Who is responsible for that ?

Amy DuMont Griffin
Amy DuMont Griffin
Reply to  Suzanne Holbrook Donnelly
9 years ago

We have a contract with a local business to clean ours on a weekly or biweekly basis. They don’t always do a very good job, though, but it gets done.

Gail Spencer
Gail Spencer
9 years ago

how about new vehicles to go with this.

Kathy Smallwood
Kathy Smallwood
9 years ago

No I don’t use the back enough for shelves

Beth Crouch
Beth Crouch
9 years ago

Our janitor put them in ours way back in the late nineties.

Sheila Waldrip Allen
Sheila Waldrip Allen
9 years ago

No I dont get up inside the back. Now if the shelving went from side to side and was on tracks where you could pull it towards the back door. Maybe that would work.

Lynn Hansen
Lynn Hansen
9 years ago

I would love for someone to turn off the heat in the LLV in the summertime! A bath once a year would be a plus!!

nalley
nalley
Reply to  Lynn Hansen
9 years ago

Be careful what you wish for…they gave our whole fleet a bath one morning last year…inside & out..with pressure washers…including the seat…there was water running down the inside of the windshield, dripping off the ceiling, and standing in the cargo area…not to mention the soaking wet seat. Then we had to go deliver mail in them! oh…and they weren’t really any cleaner

Michael McGill
Michael McGill
9 years ago

UPS trucks have had shelves for decades…

Sherrie Beebe Cichetti
Sherrie Beebe Cichetti
9 years ago

No. Just something else to give me cuts & bruises! They should invest in safer vehicles, including heat in winter, A/C in summer.

Rhonda Gray Peterson
Rhonda Gray Peterson
9 years ago

got mine already. love em

Clayton Norris
Clayton Norris
9 years ago

When I started with the Postal Service in 1993, LLVs had a rack system on the right hand side. They proved to be problematic with large parcels. The Postal Service removed them several years later. Money spent, money lost. Now the Postal Service has contracted $2.9 million for another rack/shelving system for a fleet of obsolete delivery vehicles. Is it any wonder why the Postal Service is in such a deplorable financial condition?

Stacie Garcia
Stacie Garcia
9 years ago

Yes!!

Linda Durland Hixson
Linda Durland Hixson
9 years ago

No

Nichole J Wilde
Nichole J Wilde
9 years ago

Would love it!

Suzanne Holbrook Donnelly
Suzanne Holbrook Donnelly
9 years ago

Is cleaning part of our evaluated time? When I say cleaning I mean sweeping and washing it down with a rag and cleaning solutions. Mine is so dirty I did spend an hour before cleaning it really good.