Oshkosh Truck Corporation (NYSE:OSK) announced today that its fire truck subsidiary, Pierce Manufacturing Inc., received a contract from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to provide a first-of-its-kind, 34-foot custom command post vehicle. The unit has been delivered and will be placed into service at the Presidential inauguration this month. The deployable Pierce(R) heavy-duty command vehicle will then be used in national situations, such as terrorist activities, hostage situations and natural disasters.

"We're ultimately responsible for any major terrorist incident in the immediate area, and the state-of-the art Pierce command vehicle will serve our needs in many different scenarios," said Michael Mason, assistant director in charge of the Washington field office of the FBI. "Eventually the mobile command vehicle and technology will assist the FBI not only in the Washington, D.C. area, but across the region as well, whenever the situation warrants the need."

The command vehicle includes a command center, galley and a conference area. The vehicle is equipped with landlines, Telular and satellite telephone systems, a camera system, LCD TV monitors, DVD/VHS combination decks, color printers, DSS receivers and a camera system.

"Pierce has a solid working relationship with the FBI, and continues to build and provide the highest quality products customized for different markets and applications," said John W. Randjelovic, executive vice president and president of Pierce. Annually, Pierce builds more than 100 specialized vehicles, including command vehicles, hazardous materials mitigation units and bomb response vehicles.

Oshkosh Truck Corporation (NYSE:OSK) is a leading manufacturer of specialty trucks and truck bodies for the defense, fire and emergency, concrete placement and refuse hauling markets. Oshkosh Truck is a Fortune 1000 company with products marketed under the Oshkosh(R), Pierce(R), McNeilus(R), Medtec(R), Geesink, Norba, Jerr-Dan(R) and CON-E-CO(R) brand names. The company is headquartered in Oshkosh, Wis., and had annual sales of $2.26 billion in fiscal 2004.

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