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dannyboy
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I thought I would start a thread on this subject since you did bring it up.
P500's were touted as the way UPS was going years ago. Several upper end management envisioned that we would be much like the postal service, more drivers, more stops, tighter areas, therefor the need for smaller package cars.
OF course things changed. O/70's, hundredweight etc. And the great influx of compitition in every aspect of our business, that takes the gravy and leaves the hard and spread out stops for UPS.
Safty wise, they are worse than even the Hon cars that we drove years back. If UPS would have put duel wheels on the back to create a more stable vehicle, they might have been fair. But with their size and narrow wheelbase, they are just the opposite. Since we have had them, 100% of all vehicles that have been rollovers (7)were 500's. Over the last 5 years 100% of all our major accidents have involved 500's. In most of the cases they were single vehicles accidents.
And our only major injury to a driver involved in a wreck has occured in a 500(was out for almost 2 years, had to cut him out of the wreckage and flew him from the scene). And 500's have only been 10%-15% of our vehicle makeup over the years.
We did have a feeder driver in 99 i think that put one into a guardrail, and piledrove a set of doubles off the bridge onto the road below. Wreckage was so bad the first police on the scene called it in as a fatality. It wasnt untill hours later that they heard him moaning at the bottom of the pile of metal. Happened christmas eve morning about 130 AM.
But that is off subject. We are currently pushing to get the 500 off the road here in our area. Most have close to or over a million miles on them and are totally worn out. IMO not too soon.
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I thought I would start a thread on this subject since you did bring it up.
P500's were touted as the way UPS was going years ago. Several upper end management envisioned that we would be much like the postal service, more drivers, more stops, tighter areas, therefor the need for smaller package cars.
OF course things changed. O/70's, hundredweight etc. And the great influx of compitition in every aspect of our business, that takes the gravy and leaves the hard and spread out stops for UPS.
Safty wise, they are worse than even the Hon cars that we drove years back. If UPS would have put duel wheels on the back to create a more stable vehicle, they might have been fair. But with their size and narrow wheelbase, they are just the opposite. Since we have had them, 100% of all vehicles that have been rollovers (7)were 500's. Over the last 5 years 100% of all our major accidents have involved 500's. In most of the cases they were single vehicles accidents.
And our only major injury to a driver involved in a wreck has occured in a 500(was out for almost 2 years, had to cut him out of the wreckage and flew him from the scene). And 500's have only been 10%-15% of our vehicle makeup over the years.
We did have a feeder driver in 99 i think that put one into a guardrail, and piledrove a set of doubles off the bridge onto the road below. Wreckage was so bad the first police on the scene called it in as a fatality. It wasnt untill hours later that they heard him moaning at the bottom of the pile of metal. Happened christmas eve morning about 130 AM.
But that is off subject. We are currently pushing to get the 500 off the road here in our area. Most have close to or over a million miles on them and are totally worn out. IMO not too soon.
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