[verelo]

I dont know why you're so heavily downvoted. The second point is entirely correct and your first other than claiming something is not feasible without data to back it up (although i admit it probably isnt feasible), it seems very true and fair.

[Frost1x]

A fair deal doesn't externalize costs to risking peoples' lives, that's probably where the negativity is coming from.

Compromise in middle grounds assume the two sides have reasonable baselines. Disregard for human life isn't a reasonable baseline. I don't know all the details but I'd argue for some options to allow flex time in driver schedules with non-retrofitted vehicles to stop by somewhere, take a short snack break and cool down, not be so pressured they have no option but to stay in the heat or be fired. That seems like a reasonable middle ground, to me.

[JumpCrisscross]

> other than claiming something is not feasible without data to back it up

Fair enough. UPS operates 125,000 trucks in America [1] with a useful life of 5 to 15 years [2].

So the question is, do you spend hundreds of millions of dollars retrofitting the current fleet, or, spend that money accelerating the purchase of new vehicles, which presumably come with additional perks beyond just air conditioning?

[1] https://www.herbertellis.com/blog/what-happens-when-ups-truc....

[2] https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001090727/0...