“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”
Few slogans are more identifiable than the unofficial motto of the U.S. Postal Service, which for nearly 250 years has prided itself on delivering messages across the country no matter the conditions. In its infancy, those conditions were met by horses, wagons and eventually railways. USPS began integrating vehicles into its operation more than a century ago and today has more than 235,000 vehicles, making it one of the largest fleets in the world.
And when those vehicles are slowed by snow, rain, heat, darkness or literally anything else, USPS turns to Wheeler Fleet Solutions to get them back on the road.
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Headquartered in Somerset, Pa., Wheeler Fleet Solutions is a distributor with no parallel in the independent aftermarket.
For nearly its first 30 years in business, the company existed almost exclusively as a contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense. It expanded its government fulfillment capabilities to the USPS in 1989, and slowly exited its defense operation in the years that followed to better serve as the USPS’s primary parts distributor.
USPS remains the company’s largest customer in 2023, but over the last decade, President Chad Wheeler says Wheeler Fleet Solutions also has developed e-commerce and commercial fleet sales operations to diversify its capabilities and strengthen its foothold in the aftermarket. The additions have not only bolstered the company’s bottom line but also its industry visibility, and this year helped Wheeler Fleet Solutions be named a finalist for the Trucks, Parts, Service Distributor of the Year Award program for the first time.
