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?
how about decent trucks instead,of putting money into stupid stuff! oh maybe a safer vehicle with heating and air??
I would be thrilled with an llv that doesnt die at every stop.
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!
Heck yeah!
Yes!
they spent the $$$ already, where is my shelving ?
No I have a system
I want A/C !
Waste of money
Rayma, correct! Very much waste!
Might be helpful around Christmas time, otherwise probably not
Would love to have this!!!
I don’t want shelves, why don’t they spend that money on getting us new vehicles
hmmmm sounds like we would have to try it to see if we like it
They look as useless as the tray up front. Can’t use them for much and can’t get around them either!
I WANT SHELVES!!!
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.
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.
No I don’t have a need for it
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.
I am pretty sure that would be another thing to knock myself and give myself black and blues with!!!
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?
I’d rather have a side handle and a step at the back b*mper so I can get in and out.
Do these work in FFV’s?
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.
+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…??
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.
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.
No. It will take up too much room.
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
The new vehicles will be for city carriers and then rurals will get the old city ones. Red-headed step children factor.
No, But a radio would be nice.
would love it, send some to Bogart, GA
It would be nice if they worked in FFV’s.
SICK LEAVE CALLING
I want a/c…4wheel drive for winters…
NEW LLVs would be a much better investment !!
Nope
I would like them for the Christmas load and on days we have Red Plums….I hate those papers every week!!!
The new shelving will work great for laying on while waiting for the tow truck.
City carriers will get the new vehicles… We get “shelves.”
Are we suppose to clean the llv’s ourselves. My is so dirty and dusty. Who is responsible for that ?
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.
how about new vehicles to go with this.
No I don’t use the back enough for shelves
Our janitor put them in ours way back in the late nineties.
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.
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!!
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
UPS trucks have had shelves for decades…
No. Just something else to give me cuts & bruises! They should invest in safer vehicles, including heat in winter, A/C in summer.
got mine already. love em
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?
Yes!!
No
Would love it!
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.