Frigid in the wintertime, blistering in the summertime. Slow as molasses, with aerodynamics that makes a HUMVEE feel better about itself. A pain to drive on dry pavement and downright nightmarish in ...

The Grumman LLV—for Long Life Vehicle—mail truck is proof that sometimes federal bureaucrats get it right. The aluminum-bodied lump just completed four decades as the principal mail carrier for the ...

Below this paragraph is a photograph of the Grumman LLV, the main vehicle of the United States Postal Service. It is an icon. It has been the main mail truck in just about every neighborhood I’ve ever ...

There are some vehicles out there that fail to turn heads at the curb or boast big horsepower numbers, but nevertheless quietly keep the country moving. The Grumman LLV (Long Life Vehicle) is one of ...

The classic U.S. Postal Service truck, the instantly recognizable Grumman LLV (Long-Life Vehicle), is set to be phased out by a newcomer to mail delivery, the Next-Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV).

Few vehicles in the world have worked harder than U.S. Post Office Grumman LLVs have since they first hit the road in the mid-1980s. Well, after about 38 years, most of them are in pretty bad shape.

GREAT BARRINGTON — When a local mail carrier had to rescue bundles of mail from their postal truck after it caught fire on State Road earlier this month it wasn't the first time something like this ...