Amazon vans zipping around neighborhoods making holiday deliveries aren’t the only relatively new transportation hardware that the tech giant has put in motion.
Dave Clark, Amazon’s senior vice president of operations, shared images of the company’s AMXL Heavy & Bulky delivery trucks in North Carolina. The dark blue box trucks have Amazon’s signature smile logo and “Prime” across the side, and on the back is a slogan that Amazon has been using on big rigs, which we’ve seen more of on the highway recently.
“There’s more to Prime. A truckload more,” the rear-door wording reads.
I love the look of these new AMXL Heavy & Bulky delivery trucks now out on the road in North Carolina! pic.twitter.com/4DKtQaxETv
— Dave Clark (@davehclark) December 14, 2019
There’s also a lot more to Amazon’s delivery aspirations according to a recent report which said that Amazon is now delivering 50 percent of packages itself. Analysts estimate Amazon Logistics will soon overtake UPS and FedEx in the total volume of packages delivered in the U.S.
Clark tweeted earlier this month that seeing Prime tractor trailers on the road never gets old, and responding to an inquiry from GeekWire, the company said that its fleet of long-haul trucks had doubled from the previous year to 20,000.
As the company spends billions improving its delivery infrastructure, especially as it embraces one-day delivery as its new shipping standard for Prime, planes and package hubs will be a big part of that. Clark previously said that Amazon plans to have 70 cargo planes flying in its fleet by 2021.
And at least one of the aircraft is sporting a new look. Clark shared another image in his roundup of logistics love last week, this time of a deep blue Prime Air plane sitting on the tarmac somewhere. Previously, the aircraft have featured a white and blue livery.
Number 5 has arrived…love the blue livery. pic.twitter.com/TO503wbG95
— Dave Clark (@davehclark) December 14, 2019
One of the places that plane will land is also taking shape. Clark shared a photo showing the progress on the 3-million-square-foot air cargo hub being built at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.
New CVG air hub starting take shape! Going to be awesome! ? pic.twitter.com/9wJ7fcyYhz
— Dave Clark (@davehclark) December 14, 2019
