Water Delivery Truck Decals: Door Lettering and Logo Ideas

Water delivery truck decals get read by the same people over and over: the homes and offices on your route, watching the same truck pull up week after week. Put your business name and phone number on both doors, add a short line saying what you deliver, and keep everything else quiet. We sell door decals, not full wraps, so the body of your box truck or tank stays as it is.

Route trucks and bulk haulers need different doors

Some water companies run box trucks, step vans or cargo vans loaded with jugs. Others run tanker trucks that fill tanks, pools or job sites. Plenty do both, and the two trucks should not be lettered the same way.

On a jug route, the door is what a customer sees through the front window while the driver wheels a hand truck up the walk. A simple name and number is enough, because the customer already knows who they ordered from.

On a tanker, the cab door may be the only flat panel not taken up by the tank, so it carries more of the message. A first-time caller on a job site needs the word "water", what you haul and a number. Ideas for the tank itself are on our tanker truck decals page.

What to put on a water delivery truck door

• The business name, spelled as it is on your invoices.
• A plain line for the service: "Bottled Water Delivery", "Bulk Water" or "Home and Office Routes".
• The phone number, written the way people dial it.
• A town or valley name, only if your route is local and you want it said.

Leave taglines about the water itself off the door. The door should say who delivers and how to reach you.

Sample door layouts

These names and numbers are made up:

• LAKESHORE WATER DELIVERY / Home and Office Routes / (555) 010-0163
• CEDAR RIDGE WATER HAULING / Bulk Loads for Tanks and Job Sites / (555) 010-0128
• BLUE HERON WATER / (555) 010-0191

The third is just a name and number, and it works on a small van door where three lines would shrink. Compare widths in the door size guide and test the result on a truck-door preview.

A water delivery truck logo: the drop and jug

The Drop and Jug Water Delivery Logo stacks an aqua drop over a navy water cooler jug with a small tap at the bottom, then runs your name beneath in one line of navy capitals. The sample art carries a placeholder name. Yours is fitted into the design and you approve a proof before anything is printed. It is $120 per door.

The shape is tall and narrow, so it suits a tall door better than a long, low one. The jug says "home and office delivery" at a glance, which helps a route truck. A bulk hauler may find the jug misleading, since the truck carries no jugs, and plain lettering is the honest fit there.

One catch: the name sits on a single line under the artwork. A short name fills it well, and a long one such as "Lakeshore Water Delivery and Supply" shrinks. Check that in the proof.

When name and phone, or the builder, is simpler

If you only need your name and number on both doors, the Business Name + Phone Number decal covers it with no artwork to approve. Use the door builder when you want your own mix of lines, such as a service line plus a town.

Color: blue on blue

Water companies lean toward blue, and a blue cab can swallow blue lettering. Our decals are a solid rectangle in a background color you choose, so a blue truck can carry a white block with blue lettering, or a yellow block with black. Dust and road film fade the weaker pairs first, so test on a dirty door, not only a clean one.

Contour cut for the logo

The optional contour cut adds $10 per door on logo designs. The decal is cut to the shape of the logo instead of a rectangle, which on a colored cab keeps a white box from showing around the drop and jug. On a white truck, the rectangle is hard to notice, so the cut matters less. Application steps are in the install guide.