Arent UPS just amazing!
I dont get the obession with electric, been around in milk floats for decades.
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except Royal Mail had them 3 1/2 years ago
electrek.co/2017/08/23/royal-ma … k-arrival/
New trucks will not make their service any better.
My Daughter ordered items online,tracking service says they arrived in the UK from Germany within 3 days, TEN days later her items are still in Birch Coppice 3 miles away with no confirmed date as to when she will get her delivery.
lolipop:
New trucks will not make their service any better.
My Daughter ordered items online,tracking service says they arrived in the UK from Germany within 3 days, TEN days later her items are still in Birch Coppice 3 miles away with no confirmed date as to when she will get her delivery.
I’ve found that The Royal Fail are equally as incompetent too.
I think someone has been watching too many Jetsons or similar cartoons with the designs of those horrible looking things. No doubt they fit in with the daft London regs, but give the driver no privacy at all…or I suspect much crash protection.
With these pushing to electric, I assume there’s tax breaks currently available? These companies don’t do stuff unless there’s a financial reason. So no they aren’t great.
What they need to do is be forced to put pics of the kids from the Cobolt mines getting poisoned so they can have flashy new batteries, because as long as Tarquin can zoom around the suberbs in their electric car getting deliveries from fake “green” delivery companies then all is ok.
I cannot wait for Geoffrey’s point of view on this one!
Natural progression, diesel, V8, Nitrous, leverage, pulse, If, When, management, Unions, etc.
Not much new about that, it has a coach passenger door and a coach windscreen. It might work OK in the urban environment
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trevHCS:
give the driver no privacy at all…or I suspect much crash protection.
Privacy? Dare I ask what you do while driving that requires that? As for crash protection, must have a certain level or it wouldn’t get type approved. After all it’s no different to how buses and coaches have been for years
Now, we just need to wait for chief UPS correspondent. He will have all the answers.
lolipop:
My Daughter ordered items online,tracking service says they arrived in the UK from Germany within 3 days, TEN days later her items are still in Birch Coppice 3 miles away with no confirmed date as to when she will get her delivery.
Also found UPS to be a useless company for domestic deliveries. The tracking service showed that a package sat at Stanford le Hope for 5 days, never moved, and they then mentioned Brexit was the cause of delays. Brexit, for an internally British delivery?
I find that DPD are by far the best service.
m1cks:
except Royal Mail had them 3 1/2 years ago
electrek.co/2017/08/23/royal-ma … k-arrival/
Except they didn’t
Royal Mail expressed interest when the company was floating the idea but have since scrapped plans. UPS invested £100m in the company as well as ordering 10,000 vehicles with an option for another 10,000 valued at around £800m
I deliver to their new factory in Bicester, not seen one up close yet as they’ve only just begun the kit it out
Wheel Nut:
I cannot wait for Geoffrey’s point of view on this one!
I was never a C and D driver so obviously no comment or view.But I do know the Leyland Roadrunner 7.5 tonner which made up most/all of our C and D fleet before the takeover wasn’t a half bad motor.
As for EV’s loads of expensive heavy batteries which have to be charged at 16p per kwh + road fuel duty + 20% VAT.
As opposed to around 12 kwh contained in a litre of diesel.
Do the maths.