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The skeptic in me thinks the provision was added at the behest of the future purchaser. Amazon? FedEx? UPS?

There’s a good chance this ends up as outright thievery.

I would be a little surprised -- Amazon already has their own custom electric delivery trucks, and FedEx and UPS could probably order these from Oshkosh directly if they wanted. These vehicles are also optimized for mail, less for parcels. None of these players need to play backroom shenanigans.

That said, blatant corruption is just the name of the game at this point in America, so who knows.

> Amazon already has their own custom electric delivery trucks

The vast majority of amazon's delivery vehicles are random vans, and amazon themselves doesn't own them; they franchise out like fedex ground does.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonDSPDrivers/comments/17l2gue/a...

no. if you look at Oshkosh's behaviour according to the article you would immediately know this isn't going to be the case. the thievery has already happened.

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