Tennessee Shite: 26 May 2025 Update!

[Madman Of The People]

Early Dodge Caravan.

[Asimo]

Wood!

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[chaseracer]

On 25/02/2025 at 23:51, Madman Of The People said:

The US postal service bought a bunch of right hand drive Mercedes Benz Metris (AKA Vito) vans to supplement their fleet of decrepit, decades-old Grumman LLVs.

Brave move.

Presumably not for use in the Rust Belt states...

[Fumbler]

5 hours ago, chaseracer said:

Brave move.

Presumably not for use in the Rust Belt states...

Oh they're being used regularly up here in the rust belt as well. The LLV-to-Vito ratio is still very much in the LLV's favour. Rural postal service is using fairly modern RHD Jeeps. Couriers are pretty much all using Ram badged Peugeot Boxers, Transhits or Sprinters instead of Chevy Expresses and Ford Econolines.

[PhilA]

Vito here replaced an aging Jeep. It's about 2 years old and the dash is a cacophony of red and orange lights, spends a significant amount of time being repaired and the drivers's door is already starting to fall off. It opens with a clunk as the latch slides off the strike plate.

They still keep the Grumman around for when the Vito is broken. That gurgles down the street on 3 cylinders, stinking of unburned fuel and mild electrical problems.

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