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A petition started by a nurse in New Jersey is aimed at getting UPS to air condition its delivery trucks.
Nurse Theresa Klenk is married to a UPS driver and says the temperature in her husband’s truck can climb to 180 degrees in the hot summer months.
After her husband’s kidneys began failing from heat stroke in 2016, Klenk created a petition on Change.org, urging UPS to provide air conditioning in its trucks.
Since July it’s been signed more than 236,000 times.
But UPS says it has no plans to equip AC in its vehicles.
A UPS spokesman says air-conditioning would be ineffective because the truck doors are opened and closed too frequently.
The company does have a program for drivers fueling adverse effects from heat exposure.
It’s called “cooling solutions” and it focuses on hydration and extra rest before extreme heat conditions.