Id like to see these trucks withstand a North Dakota dirt road thats beat to hell in -25 degree weather, I do drive 225 miles a day, so that new engines fuel economy would be nice U.P.S. Is to Put 150 Plastic-Body Trucks Into Service - NYTimes.com
lol plastic trucks
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When it gets really cold plastic cracks easier.... Also when you leave a scratch in plastic you start to cut into it. We also brush against a lot of branches each day and the people that park that cars at night play bumper cars with at least 4 sides of the cars every night.
browndevil
Well-Known Member
Paper or plastic? Or is that just a California thing?
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splozi
Guest
Chain grocery stores typically don't offer paper as an option anymore. Smaller, local, or regional stores sometimes do, nation-wide.
dilligaf
IN VINO VERITAS
Our chain store has paper but we have to ask for it.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
Here, in GA, the national chains sell the cloth bags that you bring in to bag your groceries and you use them over and over.
$1 each and they hold about twice what a plastic bag holds.
Other wise, it's plastic or plastic and they are all the same color.
I personally use the plastic bags to carry off our "spoil-able" trash off - I usually take them back to the grocery store or the gas station.
We recycle all cardboard, cans, plastics, newspapers, etc. and I drop them off at the recycle station once every 3 months or so.
PS- We live out in the country and we have a 650 concrete driveway with a gate so we can't get any of the garbage companies to drive up to our house to get our trash.
I've offered them $50 / month (over 3 times their rate) but none of them will do it.
dilligaf
IN VINO VERITAS
Thanks Hoax. We have had a couple of meetings with our Solar City rep and every time he comes he gives us tote bags. So far I have 5 of them and they are good sized. They will work perfectly for grocery bags.
moreluck
golden ticket member
Here's a Seattle situation....
Reminder: Plastic bag ban goes into effect July 1st | Ballard News-Tribune
This is from 2010, but we still have plastic bags in my stores. When my Ralphs opened, they gave away free "green" bags and I got a few of them. I use them if I remember to take them in.
http://www.good.is/post/california-bans-plastic-bags/
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splozi
Guest
I have tote bags from Target ("Super" Target that has a full grocery section) but I can never remember to bring them.
I always get plastic and re-use them for trash/laundry.
I have actually been to a Target store in another state that offered paper bags as an option. Out of the many states I've been to, I've only seen this once. It was very strange.
I always get plastic and re-use them for trash/laundry.
I have actually been to a Target store in another state that offered paper bags as an option. Out of the many states I've been to, I've only seen this once. It was very strange.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that UPS has tested these in severe conditions. Years ago RPS trucks were FRP, fiberglass reinforced plastic. I can only guess the technology has gotten infinitely better since then. And what if the plastic is "molded in color" like models? Those scratches are easily "buffed out" with the "paint" literally the thickness of the body panel.
Most cars today have plastic covers that go over the bumpers. You don't need to hit something to hard and those things crack especially in the winter. The sides of the car are still metal that is for a reason.
UPS isn't going to BUFF OUT anything. They touch up the package car today with a can of paint and a paint brush....
Also the thicker the plastic the more bridle it becomes when it gets cold....
gman042
Been around the block a few times
It says in the article that the panels are molded plastic. Same color throughout. Perhaps no more faded paint and water stains. Slight issue though with the size. Smaller than a P700.
plastic fades....
In the late 80's and early 90 they had plastic body panels then they changed to steal because the plastic bodies are crap. You can bang a dent out of metal fixing a crack isn't as easy it most cases you have to replace the panel.....
FracusBrown
Ponies and Planes
If they don't work out, there's a huge floating plastic dump out in the Pacific Ocean. Some say it's the size of texas, others claim it twice the size of the USA.
Garbage Island - Video and Pictures- a Toxic Floating Island of Plastics in the Pacific Ocean the Size of Texas - Video - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com
Garbage Island - Video and Pictures- a Toxic Floating Island of Plastics in the Pacific Ocean the Size of Texas - Video - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com
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