http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/autom ... fice.html#ARLINGTON, Va. — On a recent snowy morning, Michael Ellis prepared his mail truck for the daily route he has run here for the last decade, through a neighborhood in the Washington suburbs.
White, boxy mail trucks are a staple of neighborhoods across the country. But the aging vehicles — many date to the late 1980s — were built for a different era. They have no anti-lock brakes, airbags or even air-conditioning, and more important, the mail trucks simply are too cramped to carry the increasing number of packages postal carriers deliver.
The current model:
How it works with the driver:
