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Why mail trucks put the steering wheel on the right

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The driver sits completely on the wrong side purely so they can reach curbside boxes without standing up. Walking was deemed significantly too inefficient for delivering giant piles of junk mail.

Why mail trucks put the steering wheel on the right
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