UPS Driver hits 1,000,000 miles
UPS will never become a green company: Here is why. I find it interesting how "they" are boasting about one of their drivers recently hit the 1,000,000 mile mark in his 1987 GMC delivery truck. Frankly it makes you sick in the stomach when think about how much waste and carbon this vehicle has created over the last 22 years of use. And to add to that, this is only 1 vehicle out of several thousand UPS delivery trucks that run each day.
Let’s do the math:
****1 Gallon of gasoline will burn approximately 19.54 lbs of C02.
****UPS Delivery trucks average 9 miles per gallon
1.) This tuck has traveled 1,000,000 miles
2.) 1,000,000/9 = 111,111.11~ gallons of fuel
3.) 111,111.11(19.54) = 217,111,111 lbs CO2
In carbon emission alone, this is a huge waste.
Now let’s look at how far 111,111.11 gallons of fuel will go in a modern hybrid vehicle.
>A Toyota Prius average mpg = 50
>11,111.11 gallons of fuel = aprx. 5,555,555.5 miles
>1,000,000 – 5,555,555.5 = 4,555,555.5 additional miles
On an average of 50 miles per gallon and using the same amount of fuel, a Chevy Prius is capable of traveling and a total of 5,555,555.5 miles. Additionally, it would only take a Prius 20,000 gallons of gas to travel 1,000,000 miles when compared to our friends at UPS blasting through 11,111.11 gallons of fuel. UPS, please do something about your waste. You are contributing to the destruction of our environment at gross amounts.
One of our fabulous (perhaps one of the 9 hits we received from UPS today) mentioned that a Toyota Prius not capable delivering 2000 pounds of packages. To that we say very good point.
Update Sept 8th 2008:
One of our fabulous readers (perhaps one of the 9 hits we received from UPS today) mentioned that a Toyota Prius not capable delivering 2000 pounds of packages. To that we say very good point ("duh"). But thanks for pointing that one out. Our point is to question why would a company keep a 1987 truck on the road for so long? The above math only proves the fact that UPS has made no effort in the whole 22 years to replace this guys truck and as a result, they blasted through a ton of gas and created way too much carbon. And to reiterate the above. This is just one truck of their fleet of thousands on the road. I'd be very interested if anybody has concrete numbers on the amount of vehicles are currently in operation today at UPS. They do have several "more efficient" vehicles than the Gas guzzler above.
Use less fuel, charge less for shipping = happy customer.
Lets not talk right now about the amount carbon large distributors like UPS blow through in cooling alone of their warehouses and data centers because that is a whole other story. We support the carbon emission tax. Use less carbon, and pay less. Its an initiative that "ALL" should voluntarily go through and not be forced by the US Government.
Low Emission Hydraulic Hybrid
UPS Should swap out this 1,000,000 mile hooptie carbon burner with one of their Low Emission Hydraulic Hybrid vehicles. By achieving 70 percent better fuel efficiency in urban driving and 40 percent lower CO2 greenhouse gas emissions. A fleet owner operating one of these high efficiency hydraulic vehicles could save up to 1,000 gallons of fuel each year.
UPS 1,00,000 mile truck
Are you totaly clueless? One thing it's a Toyota Prius not a Chevy. You assumption that you can deliver 2000 pounds of packages a day in a Prius is realy stupid. Did you care to factor in that UPS is green sipmly because they kept this truck on the road vs buying new trucks every 7 years with all of the negitive green effect that goes in to manfacturing a new truck?
Response:
**First: you spelled several words wrong
totaly should be "totally"
realy should be "really"
sipmly should be "simply"
negitive should be "negative"
manfacturing should be "manufacturing"
**Second: We never said Chevy manufactured the Prius
**Third: Green is not keeping a 9MPG truck in operation for 22 years. We as a community need to get past this idea.