mirroring textures with Words on it

[Nyro]

When you duplicate and then rescale to a negative value, this flips your geometry's normals. So basically, even though the UVs seem to to be flipped correctly (have the same winding order as the original model's UVs), since you're actually viewing the polygon's rear side, your looking at the texture "from behind".
Imagine you were inside the truck: if the side planes were slightly transparent, you'd see the texture on the outside, but reversed, which is natural.

Select the duplicate and goto Normals->Reverse. Note that the normal reversing occurs after you freeze the transformations on the duplicated geometry. You can avoid this problem by not duplicating the model, but selecting the geometry and chosing Mesh->Mirror Geometry.
Not that this also reverses your UVs winding order, so you will have to flip them or you might run into similar problems when rendering.

Hope this helped.

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