Category: UPS News

Workhorse Group Inc. has begun building its lightweight electric step van that it says can carry a class-leading 6,000 pounds and go 100 miles before recharging.

The first trucks off the line in Union City, Ind., will be delivered to UPS as part of a 50-truck test fleet. If UPS likes the performance, it will complete an order for 950 trucks that it placed in June. Workhorse said it had other orders for early production but declined to name the customers.

The NGEN-1000, which gets the equivalent of 40 mpg, weighs 10,001 pounds fully loaded and 4,000 pounds empty. The cost to travel 100 miles would be about $6 based on the national average cost of just over 10 cents per kilowatt hour.

United Parcel Service is preparing to install the bulk of the conveyors in its Westside Industrial Park plant at a cost of $77.5 million.

The Atlanta-based package delivery company, which is working on a $196 million expansion of the Westside hub, applied to the city to install conveyors in its parcel shipping ground hub at 4420 Imeson Road.

Incentives legislation approved by the city in November 2016 specified that the $196 million expansion would include $150 million in equipment, furniture and fixtures.

A Bulloch County jury found a former United Parcel Service driver guilty Thursday in the November 2017 rape of a coworker.

Robert Spencer Baird, 45, of North Leah Road, will be sentenced Nov. 7 at 2 p.m. by Bulloch County Chief Superior Court Judge Gates Peed, said Ogeechee Judicial Circuit Assistant District Attorney Catherine Sumner Findley.

After a three-day trial, Baird was convicted Thursday of forcibly raping the female co-worker while working a UPS route in the county Nov. 29, 2017.