Why Are There So Many Trucks With Red/green Livery?

[plowter]

Why are there so many trucks/lorries with red/green livery?
I don't mean Eddie Stobbart. I mean the traditional local tipper, haulage and farm trucks.

Many of them seem to have a dark red base/bumper/wheels and deep green bodywork. They usually have decorative lines and writing in white or gold.

Is this a tradition? Is this the livery of a vehicle manufacturer?

Here's an example of the colour scheme on a vintage lorry but you see similar schemes on modern vehicles.

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/len_rogers/2007/01/aec-bateman.jpg

[Nibble]

People assume that this is a "vintage" paint job, and indicates that the firm has achieved a certain dignitas within the community, or it just looks "nice".

[rojash]

They used to be blue and yellow, but they got fed up with people asking "Why Are There So Many Trucks With blue/yellow Livery?"

[tonyav]

Why are most vans White ?.

[boxtops]

Eddie, most trucks and vans round here are white, I don't know where all these green and red ones are.

[cupotee]

My other half was a lorry driver for most of his working life and not one of the company's he worked for were red or green.

Blue and yellow were the only colours I knew him to drive

[moonraker558]

Years ago they had a similar livery to narrowboats which is considered traditional these day's, some haulage firms exhibit their working trucks at certain venues. I like to see the old paint schemes making a come back plus it keeps sign writers in work although some of them use modern day graphics.

[sigma]

This was also Stobarts original colour scheme

[TWR]

Red stands out, when clean it draws attention to the Company, White vans come out from the makers in that colour, it saves on re-spraying. Ex HGV.

[TWR]

Regards that trailer Plowter, the were known as a Four-in-Line, the were buggers for turning over with a load on & you could loose the trailer very quick when reversing into a yard etc, the Unit! that was another story " Crash box"

[plowter]

Sadly, I'm old enough to remember when trucks like that specimen were on the road.

I must admit don't see many trucks in those colours but enough to notice, hence the query.

You're probably right, Nibble and moonraker, it must be an Olde Wordle/Heritage paintjobe.

[sddsddean]

Nowadays of course, trucks like Stobarts aren't painted. They are basic white trucks (with red bumpers etc) and are wrapped in sticky backed plastic to give the livery. When they come to sell them its easier to peel off the plastic than re paint the truck. Trucks normally come in only a few stock colours. Usually White, Red, Blue and yellow. Anything else is at extra cost. Chassis is normally grey. My DAF tipper came (eg I ordered it) with a white cab, but I had the body sprayed in Oxford Blue...this matches the rest of the trucks in our 'gang'! Most of the other tipper firms in our area have 'simple' liveries. I can think of Red cab, grey body; Blue cab, Silver body (as they are unpainted aluminium bodies for aggregates); Dark blue, silver or grey body;...and thats about it. Rates are so tight nowadays that no one has the spare cash for a flash paint job.

[plowter]

Heston Blumenthal found a green/red truck.

http://eater.com/archives/2012/11/01/heston-blumenthal-to-unleash-gigantic-food-on-the-uk.php