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Ups truck roof white.
Once ups package cars have concluded their lives of being beat to hell on crowded city streets and rural dirt roads for hours on end they get repainted white to assure that only in service trucks.
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.
It isn t painted or tinted because that would defeat the purpose.
Human creativity knows no boundaries.
The real reason ups trucks have white roofs.
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.
Here s why ups trucks have white roofs.
The roof panel is translucent to allow sunlight into the cargo bay.
They are translucent so light can come into the truck so the driver can see the packages.
When aliens look down from space the tops of the ups trucks camouflage with the white of the clouds.
Not sure about buses but ups truck roofs are plastic not painted white.
It s an evolutionary defense mechanism.
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.
Use your ups infonotice or tracking number to get the latest package status and estimated delivery date.
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.
Kim is probably named shruti and works in a mumbai call center it s really more for another reason which is rather obvious if you look in the back while they re unloading.
But when it comes to transporting people or parcels that creativity runs into a stop sign where vehicle color is concerned.