> https://www.vice.com/en/article/4awqqw/the-new-usps-trucks-would-probably-be-illegal-if-they-weighed-one-pound-less

> However the USPS and Oshkosh Defense, the manufacturer, came to calculate the payload at 2,941 instead of 2940, it was an incredibly important pound.

i absolutely despise sharing the vice "news" and i urge you not to trust anything in the article you haven't verified elsewhere, but then buying a light civilian vehicle from oshkosh is kinda fucked up in the first place
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@pony "And, as it happens, 8,500 pounds is the dividing line between a light truck, which the EPA is pushing with increasingly stringent standards that can’t be met by gas cars"

Maybe this is the real problem

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