Not sure about buses but ups truck roofs are plastic not painted white.
Ups truck roof white.
This may surprise you but ups trucks have white roofs.
Crayola is releasing a back to school line of.
As one redditor pointed out the roofs of ups s iconic vehicles eschew the familiar dirt color for white.
Yes the white roof may also help to reflect sunlight keeping the cargo area cooler but despite what the ups rep wrote i can guarantee she was never a courier.
Despite all the vibrant colors in the rainbow airplanes are usually a plain white school buses are the color of mildly dehydrated pee and ups trucks are a dark almost chocolate syrupy hue except for the roofs which are technically translucent but look solid white.
The roof panel is translucent to allow sunlight into the cargo bay.
I ve heard that the white part of the roof in the picture is actually a translucent window like a skylight so that light will pass through and the delivery person can see in the back of the truck without turning on the lights.
This is the best way to guarantee your package arrives without extra terrestrial interference.
If you re looking down at a busy street frogger style you might see something curious the ultra recognizable brown rectangle of a truck we associate with united parcel service is not brown on top.
It isn t painted or tinted because that would defeat the purpose.
It s an evolutionary defense mechanism.
Here s why ups trucks have white roofs.
Use your ups infonotice or tracking number to get the latest package status and estimated delivery date.
Human creativity knows no boundaries.
But when it comes to transporting people or parcels that creativity runs into a stop sign where vehicle color is concerned.
The real reason ups trucks have white roofs.
The us coin shortage.
They are translucent so light can come into the truck so the driver can see the packages.