Will it be possible to mod supply trucks and trains to use manpower and fuel?

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Hubs create that pretty heat map of potential supply, but there aren't any supplies constantly distributed if there's no one there to consume them. The colors are the strength of the supply field, as it were, not a measure of crates being heedlessly dumped in the middle of nowhere each day.

You sure? If you motorise a hub and there's no troops to use the supply, I'm pretty sure you still lose trucks. Then again, maybe that's tied to a fixed attrition rate that always gets applied when you motorise a hub.
 

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Why would you motorize a hub that lacks troops to draw upon it?

Given that there's a loss if the trucks are there (I haven't paid that close attention to that detail), it seems a distinction without a difference to say "the trucks are delivering supplies that no one needs" (which supplies don't actually exist as separate game objects, as so many people complain) or say that "the trucks aren't delivering, but have a fixed attrition rate".