We track mail truck fires at the US Postal Service
2026 41 Mail truck fires so far
Mail truck fires we have documented since 2014 345 2025 43 Mail truck fires 2024 38 Mail truck fires 2023 36 Mail truck fires
Documents obtained by Motherboard via a Freedom of Information Act request in 2020
Since May 2014, at least 407 LLVs have been damaged or destroyed in fires, or approximately one every five days, according to documents obtained by Motherboard via a Freedom of Information Act request.
(We have documented over 153 more after 2020)
Motherboard reviewed 3,954 pages of documents regarding the LLV fires. The vast majority of those documents were investigation reports conducted by two different engineering firms that USPS hired to identify the cause of the fires. Those firms, Trident Engineering and Rimkus Consulting Group, declined to be interviewed by Motherboard citing confidentiality clauses in their contracts with USPS, which the USPS refused to release them from in order to discuss their findings. Kim Frum, a USPS spokesperson, said she was “unable to provide information” about whether or not there were injuries as a result of any fires.
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