Flooring Truck Decals for Installer Vans and Pickups

Flooring truck decals work hardest while the van is parked. An installer may park in one driveway for several days, and every neighbor, delivery driver and visiting relative gets a long look at the door. So the lettering should make sense to someone standing still: the business name, the kinds of floors you install and a phone number. Everything else can wait for the estimate.

What the door needs to say about floors

"Flooring" tells a reader the trade, but a few specific words add information: hardwood, tile, laminate, vinyl plank, carpet. People searching for a floor often start with the material, so one line with two or three of them is useful. Resist adding all of them.

A sample five-line door with made-up details, built with the Make-Your-Own 5-Line decal at $45 per decal:

• Acme Flooring
• Hardwood, Tile and Vinyl Plank
• Install and Refinish
• Serving Anytown
• (555) 010-0155

If your state or city licenses flooring contractors, check with your state licensing board whether it wants a number shown on the vehicle. A short two-line door, using the Business Name + Phone Number decal at $24.99 per decal, is enough for installers who get work by referral.

Which vehicles flooring installers drive

General knowledge, not a rule: many flooring crews use cargo vans, since boxes of plank, tile and tools stack inside. Others run box trucks for bigger jobs, or pickups with a covered bed or an enclosed trailer. A van or box truck gives you a long, flat side. A pickup door gives less room. Our door decal size guide explains how our widths of 12, 18 and 24 inches relate to your space.

For a big, flat panel on a van, 18 or 24 inches reads at a distance. See the cargo van and Sprinter van lettering page for the van-specific details.

The Plank Mark Flooring logo

The Plank Mark Flooring Logo is $120 per door. A small mark of wood planks sits above brown capitals, with a lighter, spaced line for the word "Flooring" below. Your name is fitted into the layout and a proof arrives before printing.

One thing to watch is the second line. The word "Flooring" is set much smaller than the main name. On a small decal it can shrink to a size that is hard to read from the curb. If the trade word matters to you, choose the 18 or 24 inch width, or check the proof for how large that line comes out.

Brown, vans and contrast

Brown reads well on white, which is the color of many vans, and on cream or light gray. It does poorly on a dark green, dark red or black vehicle, where the brown loses contrast. The rectangular decal carries its own background and avoids that. A contour cut, trimmed to the artwork for $10 more per door, suits a white van. If your vehicles vary, choose the rectangle and keep the look consistent across them.

When the van goes

Vehicles change hands. If you sell the van, our guide to removing truck decals covers lifting a decal and the outline it can leave. If you only want a sign for some days, read the magnetic signs guide first. We sell decals and not magnets. A little care on a van you plan to resell is worth it.

You may also want to read about remodeling trucks and painting trucks, since installers often work alongside those trades.