There was no desire to maintain a large force. But the US Army, once reaching for the American Expeditionary Forces alone, 4 million at V-Day, rapidly dwindled down and the US went back to the usual peacetime corps.
Once peace was signed and Doughboys home, many of surplus trucks made a career in civilian service. In WW2, these numbers would go up ten fold and more. Until then, these were accostumed to make their own thing, and in small series. The "liberty truck" was the result, notably the "standard B" of which 10,000 were manufactured by scores of companies. In 1917, USA, once fully committed produced a formidable effort to standardize truck production and answer the need to provide mobility to a first wave of 500,000 doughboys mobilized in Europe.
US Military Trucks Over 3,000,000 of trucks, staff cars, motorcycles and artillery tractors 1935-1945 Introduction: WW1 Military Trucks:
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