Send a photo, get a real price

What to send us

• A photo of the vehicle, from the side
• Make, model and body length if you know it
• The wording you want on it
• Any logo files you already have
• How many vehicles
• When you need it done

If you do not have any of that, call anyway. A two-minute conversation usually gets us what we need, and we would rather talk it through than have you guess at a form.

What actually affects the price

Four things move a lettering quote. Vehicle size and body type come first, because a pickup with two doors and a tailgate is a fraction of the panel area of a twenty-four foot box truck. Coverage is second: name and number on the doors is a different job from full-side layouts with a logo, a service list and a website. Third is the material — flat-color cut vinyl is the most economical route, while a logo with gradients, photographs or fine detail needs digital print, which costs more per square foot. Fourth is quantity, and this one works in your favour: several trucks in one visit is meaningfully cheaper per vehicle than the same trucks lettered one at a time on separate days.

Wraps price differently because material and labor both scale with coverage. A partial wrap concentrated on the rear quarters and doors captures most of the attention a full wrap would, at a fraction of the cost, and for a lot of small fleets it is the honest recommendation. We will tell you when lettering alone would achieve what you are actually after — talking a customer into a full wrap they did not need is a good way to lose the next twenty years of their business.

Why a photo is enough

A single side-on photo of the vehicle tells us the body type, the usable panel area, where the seams and handles fall, the paint color the graphics have to contrast against, and whether there is a ladder rack or box in the way. That is almost everything needed to price the job. Add the wording you want and roughly when you need it, and you will get a real number rather than a range with a question mark on the end.

For fleets, photos of two or three representative vehicles are enough to price the whole rollout, because we quote by body type and then multiply. If your trucks are already lettered and you are matching a new one, a photo of an existing vehicle is the fastest possible brief — we work from it directly.

Turnaround and what happens on the day

Small jobs and compliance lettering often get a same-week or next-day slot, because they take a couple of hours and we can fit them around larger bookings. Wraps take longer, since the artwork has to be designed, proofed, printed and laminated before anyone arrives at your yard. Fleet batches are scheduled in half-day or full-day blocks, including early mornings, evenings and weekends for operations that cannot spare daytime downtime.

On the day, we arrive with the vinyl already cut or printed. The panels get washed and de-greased, the layout is measured and positioned, and the film is squeegeed down and sealed. A pickup is typically two to three hours. Nothing needs to be dropped off, nothing stays overnight, and the truck goes back to work as soon as we are finished. If old graphics need to come off first, that happens in the same visit.