UPS promised new delivery vans with AC. It hasn’t bought any | CNN Business

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This was supposed to be the year that air conditioning came to UPS delivery vans. It hasn’t worked out that way.

Despite a promise in the contract reached with the Teamsters union last year, UPS has not yet purchased any new vans with AC, even as temperatures soar across the country and the dangers of extreme heat put workers in harms way in and out of doors.

Almost none of the nearly 100,000 brown package vans have AC. Temperatures inside the trucks, both the cab and especially the cargo space where drivers

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