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UPS Announces Rollout of Hydraulic Hybrid Vehicle

Robert Heron sends in an interesting bit of news: UPS has announced the adoption of Hydraulic Hybrid Vehicles (HHV) for it’s delivery truck line. Trials begin with 7 trucks total and deployed in Minneapolis where they will be monitored daily and the hydraulic engine design tweaked and maintained as data is collected about the performance [...]

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UPS Employees Have X-Ray Vision

A co-worker of mine’s 360 was RRoDing, so he called MS to get the return shipment box. He packed it up and was planning on swinging by the UPS store on the way home to send to back to Microsoft. It turns out we had a UPS delivery today, and he asked the UPS lady if [...]

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