The new truck, which will come to a neighborhood near you starting in 2023, will be designed and manufactured by Oshkosh Defense, a tactical vehicle manufacturer.

The electric trucks have a side cargo door, more space and, critically, air-conditioning, promising some long-overdue relief for carriers, who haven’t had an upgrade since the 1980s.

The United States Post Office said Tuesday that it picked Oshkosh Defense for a $482 million contract to build its next-generation mail-delivery vehicle. The effort is part of the USPS' goal to ...

The US Postal Service has selected a contractor to build its next-generation of mail trucks. The first of the new vehicles will hit roads in 2023, the agency said. Oshkosh Defense will produce up ...

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Trump Signs Executive Order Requiring Truck Drivers To Speak English, But That's Already Necessary By Law. By Brad Brownell April 29, 2025 3:35 pm EST. Mike Raabe/Getty Images.

To the editor: Columnist Gustavo Arellano proclaims that language proficiency in truck drivers doesn’t affect safety (“Trump is wrong.My dad was a trucker, and he didn’t need much English to ...

Opinion: English requirement for truck drivers threatens cross-border logistics by Bertha Martínez-Cisneros June 25, 2025, 7:01 p.m. June 25, 2025, 7:01 p.m. Share this: ...

Fletes Sotelo SA de CV, a local Juárez logistics company, has been teaching English to its truck drivers since the order was signed; they currently have around 100 drivers.

For 19 years, Richard Burton, a letter carrier in Athens, Georgia, drove the classic boxy mail truck, with only a fan on the dashboard to keep the cabin cool in the sweltering summer months.