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UPS trucks are custom designed for UPS; they used to have a nice documentary about it. New Amazon trucks around where I live are clearly custom (and also not very pretty, if you ask me).

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New Amazon trucks are built by Rivian.

I saw a Rivian mobile service van for the first time about two weeks ago. I was behind it in traffic. It’s exactly the same design as Amazon, just different paint.

All I could think of was “they repainted an Amazon van“.

I know Rivian makes them all. But seeing so many Amazon vans has changed who “owns“ the design in my mind.

None have huge windows like this. Are the tasks that different?

Perhaps the next generation of UPS trucks will have large windows like the new USPS trucks. If it seems to be a useful feature, others will adopt it eventually.

It's very clearly a useful feature for seeing children while driving round residential areas, where they might be playing in the street.

Since it costs extra, Amazon will only adopt if if they're forced, either by regulation or significant social pressure.

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