Siding Truck Decals: Door Lettering and a Lap Siding Logo

Siding truck decals work like a yard sign that happens to have wheels. The crew's pickup sits at the curb for days while a house is reclad, and everyone on the street sees it. So the door has to carry a name, a trade word and a phone number in letters you can read from across the road. A logo that looks like lapped boards on a gable tells the story at a glance.

The truck out front is your sign

Picture how it is read. A neighbor walks a dog past, glances at the house with scaffolding and the truck by the mailbox, and either remembers a name or does not. That moment is short, and the truck is often partly hidden behind a dumpster or ladders.

Three habits help:

• Put the same text on both doors, because you cannot pick which side faces the street.
• Use a trade word beside your name, such as "Siding" or "Siding and Trim".
• Give the phone number its own line, with the area code.

If you also hang gutters or do roof work, roofing truck decals and gutter truck decals show how neighboring trades handle the same doors.

Siding truck logo: the gable with lap lines

The Gable and Lap Siding Logo shows the front of a house as a gable shape filled with alternating green and tan horizontal bands, much like overlapping boards. Beneath it the name runs on two lines in rounded green capitals, a brand word on top and the trade word below.

The bands are the hint that this is a siding company, even before you read the name. The design is $120 per door. Your name is fitted into it, and a proof arrives for you to approve before anything is printed. A name that splits into brand and trade, such as "Lapline" and "Siding," suits it well, while a very long first word may shrink on the proof.

Add the phone number as a separate decal if you want it on the same door.

Wording that fits on a door

List only the materials and services you really install. Examples:

• Vinyl and Fiber Cement Siding
• Siding, Soffit and Trim
• Repairs and Full Replacements

Check with your state licensing board whether it wants a license number shown on a vehicle, and add it only if it does.

Sample door text

Names and numbers are made up:

1. Crew pickup: BRIDGEWATER SIDING / Siding, Soffit and Trim / (555) 555-0152
2. Owner's van: CEDAR HOLLOW EXTERIORS / Siding and Window Trim / Serving Anytown / (555) 555-0194
3. Trailer panel: BRIDGEWATER SIDING / (555) 555-0152

Siding crews often haul long panels on a rack, and some tow a trailer with their tools. The trailer panel gets the short version so the letters can be large.

Green, tan and what the truck is painted

Dark green is the strong half of this logo. It reads on white, silver and light gray trucks. The tan bands are soft, so on a tan, beige or gold truck the gable almost vanishes. On a green truck the lettering loses its edge, and on black the green sinks. A plain lettering decal can swap in black on yellow or white on black when the logo's colors fight the paint. The fonts and colors guide has tested pairs.

Cost, and what happens to the decal later

Prices are per decal, and a pair covers both doors. The Business Name + Phone Number decal is $30.99 and is the simpler choice for a helper's truck that only needs a name and number. The Make-Your-Own 5-Line decal is $51, and the logo is $120 per door. The truck lettering cost guide compares the totals.

When you sell or retire a truck, the decal can be taken off, and how to remove truck decals explains the steps.

Contour cut

The optional contour cut adds $10 per door on logo designs and cuts the decal to the shape of the logo instead of a rectangle, here the gable's sloped top and straight sides. It keeps the door looking clean on a light truck, though a rectangle backing is more forgiving on dark paint. The die-cut vs rectangular guide goes through the trade-off. We make decals, not vehicle wraps.