I’ve always been curious about UPS parcel vans. UPS have loads of them but no-one else seems to.
Who makes them? I presume UPS use a bought-in chassis which is then bodied to UPS specification, but what are they beneath the ■■■-coloured skin?..
Mercedes
Over here they used to have their own highway tractors (dog ugly they were ) as well as there own panel vans with a bulbous nose like an old erf. They might have been built by Grumman. Lately they have been buying Freightliner/Mercedes/Dodge sprinter vans.
Just found this about yank ups trucksBROWN TRUCK 
i remember a few years ago reading an article that ups teach you what way too walk out your seat so you get the right foot forward for maximum efficiency .
no joke
jessicas dad:
i remember a few years ago reading an article that ups teach you what way too walk out your seat so you get the right foot forward for maximum efficiency .
no joke
No. I can remember reading that too.
Yeah, I remember that. I also remember reading an article, might have been the same article, about one of their drivers doing a run in a major US city in which he was taught to plan his run so he only had to make right turns, making left turn took too long and caused parcels to be delivered late.
i seem to remember Roadline having something similiar
They were investigated a few years ago by the FBI for being involved in organized crime . The reason being that being a Mormon outfit they paid for everything cash.They don’t believe in credit. They came out snow white.
Harry - you mean to say that they’ve managed to attain a global business without the use of credit? If so that is incredible, but well done to them.
No offence, but that’s got the whiff of urban legend to it…can’t find anything to substantiate the story and according to Wikipedia, the company was started with a $100 loan.
Perhaps you are thinking of Eddie Stobart? 
Not far off harry the man that now owns stobarts started off with a £1000 loan from his father he is local to me i worked with him in the early ninetys klunk
Went for a job with them at the depot just off the old A13 going into London when I lived down there.
The drivers of the little turd couloured vans do over 120 drops a DAY.
Edward Teller:
Went for a job with them at the depot just off the old A13 going into London when I lived down there.The drivers of the little turd couloured vans do over 120 drops a DAY.
In 1907 there was a great need in America for private messenger and delivery services. To help meet this need, an enterprising 19-year-old, James E. (“Jim”) Casey, borrowed $100 from a friend and established the American Messenger Company in Seattle, Washington. According to accounts given by Jim there were quite a few messenger services already in the Seattle area, some of which he had worked for in the past.
120 DROPS A DAY! Stuff that,i`ll stick with 1 drop a day thankyou.
Diddyman:
120 DROPS A DAY! Stuff that,i`ll stick with 1 drop a day thankyou.
120 drops a day, but you can easily get 5 or more drops at the same address. Say 5 drops at one company. One drop is for the MD, another is the Goods In office, another could be the QC dept’ etc.
Then there are office buildings with 5 (or more) different ‘offices’ in the same ‘office unit’.
Both of these would be 5 separate drops on the run sheet, but in reality you dump all 5 drops on the same front desk, thrust your PDA thingy at the receptionist and say, “sign 'ere darlin” or whatever the approved phrase is these days, 5 drops done.
Those two examples have just cut your 120 drops down to 112 and there are plenty more of the same in a run. 120 drops is more than likely going to be about 20 - 25 drops, on the ground. These are parcel deliveries too, in a custom designed and built van, making the job even easier.
Mind you, I still wouldn’t fancy it. I like my big Tonka toy thanks very much 
When I first started driving I worked for an agency and one time they sent me to a company called Ripponden Motors, Renault motors in a blue and cream livery (are they still going).
I reported to the traffic office, the person in charge pointed out of the window and said my truck was just outside, and go put my gear in it and he would be out with the notes, when he came out I thought he was holding the yellow pages directory in his hand, he said here are your notes, asked how many drops were they and he said a 102 mostly in Manchester, he then uttered the immortal line ‘‘When you’ve done that ring, in for your pickups’’ I looked at him in amazment then burst out laughing, walked to my car and went home.
Ripponden Motors stopped trading a few years ago now
i did years ago 35 drops in an afternoon for anc parcels… to be honest it wasnt so bad really they were concertratedall in the same area.
Done that multi drop stuff for a couple of parcel firms when I first came out of the forces realy do not want to ever do it again 40-50 drops a day plus pickups, that to me is a young mans job chasing your backside all day then getting a rollicking for not getting everything off. I like one load per trailor