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CharlesM posted:Would a hybrid or vehicle with a start / stop system be a good choice for their replacements? Hah, replacements. Those Grumman trucks are going to be driven until the end of time.
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Not as mechanical as most of the pictures here but plenty of failure and a back story too. So I recently bought a cheap car long distance. The guy claimed it was roadworthy and knew I would be planning to travel about 1000km to take it home. Just in case, I asked him how the tires were. He sent me this picture:  "You can drive on those, right?"
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RillAkBea posted:"You can drive on those, right?" Yup. Directly to the scene of the rollover accident.
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Oct 14, 2014 13:36
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Someone asked for this picture pages ago. E: and another that poped on the GIFs thread 
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Oct 14, 2014 14:01
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Micr0chiP posted:Someone asked for this picture pages ago. 
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Oct 14, 2014 14:45
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Same pad, jeez i wonder why my rotor is so scored?
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Slavvy posted:Put a camry hybrid drivetrain in a box with wheels and you'd have the perfect mail van. Or just do like they did in my neighborhood and make everyone walk to the apartment style mail box. LAzy fuckers can't even be assed to go door to door anymore. At least I don't have to shovel my steps when it snows.
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Or do what civilised countries do and have the posties ride bicycles/mopeds.
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I'm not clear on how well that works in rural areas, in the rain, in the snow and with packages.
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Motronic posted:I'm not clear on how well that works in rural areas, in the rain, in the snow and with packages. You just have to ignore the fact that the US is geographically very different from Europe / NZ and then the idea makes perfect sense.
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Shampoo posted:Hah, replacements. Those Grumman trucks are going to be driven until the end of time. I thought the same about the ones Canada Post had but they were replaced with Transit Connects a couple years ago.
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Safety Dance posted:You just have to ignore the fact that the US is geographically very different from Europe / NZ and then the idea makes perfect sense. So what you're saying is, News Island is an arid, rainless place where snow is unknown and also it doesn't feature both urbanised areas and remote rural areas which have a very low population density?
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TNT use electric delivery trucks in cities here, I think I posted a photo of one once back in the old phone pictures thread. Any "The USA isn't Europe" arguments are nonsense. Urban sprawl is urban sprawl, regardless of whether it's a small or large distance between urban sprawls.
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The US has huge swaths of land with low population density that sees lots of weather extremes. Lots of Europeans have no idea just how vast the midwest is.
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It's a lot simpler than that too. People don't ride motorcycles/scooters/mopeds nearly as much in the US. If "have a motorocycle license" was a requirement to be a postal worker, it could cut down on the pool of potential workers substantially.
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it's more that UPS and Fedex farm out a ton of their last mile deliveries to the USPS so they're often carrying fairly large packages and poo poo also the temperature range where I live goes from like -35c to 42c in the course of a year, I'm preeeeeeeeeeeety sure you don't get that kind of temperature swing in the land of orcs and rapidshare
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bull3964 posted:It's a lot simpler than that too. Not all cops are motorcycle cops. Not all postal workers have to be motorcycle postal workers.
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InitialDave posted:Any "The USA isn't Europe" arguments are nonsense. Urban sprawl is urban sprawl, regardless of whether it's a small or large distance between urban sprawls. I don't think you understand just how low density the US is for most of its land mass.  We don't live on top of each other unless you are in or close to a city, unlike the vast majority of Western Europe.  I'm not talking about delivering in a city or in an urban sprawl area. I'm talking about the rest which is most of it by size. Motronic fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Oct 14, 2014 |
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Motronic posted:I don't think you understand just how low density the US is for most of its land mass. The Aussies don't drive roadtrains through dowtown Sydney (Unless they've been drinking, someone bet them they couldn't, or it seems like a bit of a laugh).
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InitialDave posted:No, I understand that just fine. It doesn't matter. That issue affects your decisions for transportation between cities, the situation within the cities themselves is no different. Awesome, so you have a great plan for 5% of the country. What about the rest of it?
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^^^^ That's exactly my point.
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InitialDave posted:No, I understand that just fine. It doesn't matter. That issue affects your decisions for transportation between cities, the situation within the cities themselves is no different. That vast swath of low-density land right in the middle? That's farmland. It's all settled, people live there, miles and miles apart, and they get mail.
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InitialDave posted:No, I understand that just fine. It doesn't matter. That issue affects your decisions for transportation between cities, the situation within the cities themselves is no different. There are 3000 cities with a population over 10,000 but under 100,000 population in between those urban areas for which it doesn't make sense to have a dedicated sorting and distribution center. There are only 306 cities in the EU with a population under 100,000. For a city of 10,000 people, which likely supports a rural area of similar size, it doesn't make sense to have a dedicated sorting and distribution center. I was an owner/operator with DHL, and my route was 500-550km per day and there was a truck with another shipping company that nearly mirrored my route. More than half of the routes were over 250km per day. In a city of 100,000 with an area likely triple or quadruple that of an equivalent european city, all of the inner city stuff was handled by 5 or 6 trucks, out of a fleet of about 30. You're the most ignorant poster i've seen with regards to north america. You seem like the type of person who would want to take a day out of your trip to toronto to see montreal and vancouver. Powershift fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Oct 14, 2014 |
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Hey everyone, you can change how USPS delivers in high-density areas (EV/moped based deliveries) while leaving traditional vehicles in place where they make sense (spread-out rural areas). You can, in fact, do two things! I bet places like LA or NYC would see great benefits from switching to electric mail trucks, for example (LA especially with their Very Special Geography that causes so much smog buildup.) E: Have some thread content. Russian train opens a portal to the elemental plane of fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdogZ8_zRbk Fender Anarchist fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Oct 14, 2014 |
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Powershift posted:
I had a friend from the Northeast pull this on me a few years ago. Him: Dude, I'm totally gonna be in Texas next week. I'm free Wednesday night. Dinner? Me: Awesome. Where are you staying? Him: The $SOME_HOTEL in Amarillo. Me: Dude, I'm in Austin. 500 miles away. That's a bit far to go for dinner on a Wednesday. edit: Was going to add content but apparently my camera hates me. Driving home last night there was a Civic with the most insane camber I've ever seen driving on the street. Stupid camera. Kill-9 fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Oct 14, 2014 |
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USPS actually already runs about 30 electric vehicles in NYC and they have a few other trials running now and through the years. It seems though that most of the time the company supplying them with the vehicles ends up cancelling the program.
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Powershift, who is a completely different poster to EightBit posted:You're the most ignorant poster i've seen with regards to north america. You seem like the type of person who would want to take a day out of your trip to toronto to see montreal and vancouver.  Have you forgotten the posts that started this topic? Geirskogul posted:The starter motor on the LLV probably just finally rebelled and spun backwards while she was delivering mail. I mean, have you seen mail carriers drive those things? Start it up, drive to one house, turn it off, deliver mail, start it up, drive to the next house down, turn it off, deliver mail... Fucknag posted:Hey everyone, you can change how USPS delivers in high-density areas (EV/moped based deliveries) while leaving traditional vehicles in place where they make sense (spread-out rural areas). You can, in fact, do two things! InitialDave fucked around with this message at 07:46 on Oct 15, 2014 |
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Fucknag posted:I bet places like LA or NYC would see great benefits from switching to electric mail trucks, for example (LA especially with their Very Special Geography that causes so much smog buildup.) We're working on it GOD MOM https://about.usps.com/what-we-are-doing/green/vehicles.htm
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Kill-9 posted:I had a friend from the Northeast pull this on me a few years ago. Pfft, that's like a 20 minute drive once you take into account the speed Texans hurl their trucks down the road.
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bull3964 posted:USPS actually already runs about 30 electric vehicles in NYC and they have a few other trials running now and through the years. It seems though that most of the time the company supplying them with the vehicles ends up cancelling the program. It probably states in the contract the vehicle requires XX mile range, which is possible with a fresh battery, but after 300 cycles from a year of use, with 90% capacity it falls under the range and USPS turns into a dick. This one has a bonus failure 
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Cross post from the Jeep thread, my water pump gave out. Impellers just disappeared. I found one, not sure where the others are. This is the second time I've had a water pump fail like this.   
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Horse Divorce posted:Cross post from the Jeep thread, my water pump gave out. Impellers just disappeared. I found one, not sure where the others are. Not plastic. You hear me, Germany? Not plastic.
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InitialDave posted:I think it's more prevalent with the pressed sheet type, my experience is that the "better" water pumps are the ones that have a cast impeller. Vaaaasss? Ze plastic verks gut within ze designed tolerances of 0.01mm!
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xzzy posted:Vaaaasss? Ze plastic verks gut within ze designed tolerances of ze varranty period!
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InitialDave posted:I think it's more prevalent with the pressed sheet type, my experience is that the "better" water pumps are the ones that have a cast impeller. The cast ones are typically poo poo-tier aluminum or zinc castings and likely will suffer from corrosion and cavitation damage while the pressed steel ones generally survive that. I'd bet on lack of cooling system maintenance causing acidified coolant that keeps eating up the impellers. I think you already found the impeller, actually, it (along with maybe 10 thou of the surface of the cooling passages in your engine block) is why your coolant was the color of terra cotta. 
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Ok, now how can I fix it? I've looked into hot tanks and nobody around here does it. And thank you.
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kastein posted:The cast ones are typically poo poo-tier aluminum or zinc castings and likely will suffer from corrosion and cavitation damage while the pressed steel ones generally survive that.  You're right on the cavitation, even on well-serviced stuff with OEM parts, I've seen it getting a good start. Horse Divorce posted:Ok, now how can I fix it? I've looked into hot tanks and nobody around here does it.
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Change your coolant regularly, at least every two years. If it's been a while, do a flush after clearing it out with, say, a garden hose; then, drain and refill, using distilled water to dilute the concentrated antifreeze.
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Saga posted:Shouldn't someone with an HGV licence always know the height of their load? Especially before driving under a very obvious brick railway bridge with the height printed on it in big numbers. Yes, we should know, but that doesn't include people being fuckups. See: Road crews that patch roads too thick and cause an oops. Drivers being dumb New York using a retarded, non standard way to measure poo poo. Case in point: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6114018,-119.8507659,3a,75y,209.3h,78.33t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sRIxDaPbru4femjLtPCerNA!2e0 I can't remember 100% if this is the case, but one of these is now a 13'11" overpass (in a 14' state) and will also be the main route to get to the new Amazon warehouse. See anything missing in the picture?
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Horse Divorce posted:Ok, now how can I fix it? I've looked into hot tanks and nobody around here does it. Trade it in, buy something new and take care of it properly 
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