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12/07/2006: "A Small Step for a Big Company"
Looks like UPS, which started back in 1907 and apparently employed a good number of bicycles for delivery, is experiencing the best kind of déja vue: they are employing a number of mountain bikes pulling trailers in certain areas to handle the extra burden of holiday shipping.A Vermont publication called Seven Days has written them up in Brown Goes Green--on Mountain Bikes.
For a more thorough examination of the vast possibilities of the bicycle trailer, see a couple of articles from our archives: