Well Drilling Truck Decals: Door Lettering for Rigs and Support Trucks

Well drilling truck decals do their job at the end of a long driveway or a gravel lane, where a landowner decides whether the rig in the yard belongs to someone they want to call. The doors need your company name, the word "drilling" and a phone number, set high enough on the door that mud does not hide them. The rig itself is a heavy truck with a mast, and the decals go on its doors, not its working equipment.

Three vehicles, three jobs

A drilling outfit rarely runs one truck. The drill rig is the big one, and its cab doors are the part people see first. A support truck or tender carries pipe, casing or tools. A pickup does the estimates and site visits.

Give them one family look but not three identical doors. The rig carries the full name, the trade and the number. The pickup, which people see in town and at the feed store, only needs name and phone. If you use a trailer for equipment, a simple name and number can go on that too. Our pickup door decal page covers the smaller vehicles.

Mind the mud line

Work trucks that run on dirt get splashed from the bottom up, so the lower third of a door is the first part to get covered. When you choose a size in the preview, put the main lines in the upper two thirds of the flat door area. Brown lettering is a risk on a truck that is also brown with dust, so check the pairing against your paint and your working conditions. The fonts and colors guide shows why a strong pair beats a fancy font, and how dirt dulls weaker colors first.

Door layouts for a drilling company

These are made-up names and (555) numbers:

• Rig door: RIDGELINE DRILLING / Water Wells and Pump Service / (555) 010-0172
• Support truck: RIDGELINE DRILLING / (555) 010-0172
• Pickup: RIDGELINE DRILLING / Free Estimates / (555) 010-0172

Only add "Free Estimates" if you do them. Skip claims about water or depth; a number and a name are what get a call. Check with your state licensing board whether it wants a license number shown on the vehicle, and add it only if it does.

A well drilling truck logo: derrick and water line

The Derrick and Water Well Drilling Logo draws a brown lattice derrick standing on a thin blue line, with your name under it in heavy brown capitals on two lines. The sample art carries a placeholder name. Your own name is fitted and proofed before printing. It costs $120 per door.

This is a tall design. The derrick takes about as much height as the lettering, so it fits a tall door panel better than a wide, low one. The blocky capitals are easy to read, but a long name will break across lines and shrink, so test a name of five or six words in the proof. Brown and blue suit a white or tan truck. On a dark brown or dark blue truck, pick a light sticker background so the logo does not blend into the paint.

Do the rig doors need a USDOT number?

Possibly, and possibly not. It depends on weight and use, and rigs, support trucks and pickups with trailers fall on different sides of that line. The guide on who needs a USDOT number explains how to sort that out. If a number does belong on the door, the Custom USDOT Logo combines name, city and number lines on one decal.

Plain name and phone, or cut to shape

For a pickup or a second truck, the Business Name + Phone Number decal is the quick choice. For anything custom, use the door builder.

On the derrick logo, the optional contour cut is +$10 per door. It cuts the decal to the shape of the logo instead of a rectangle, which leaves the tower silhouette on the paint. Our decals are rectangles by default, and cut letters versus rectangular decals explains the tradeoffs. Other trades that work with heavy equipment and dirt are on our excavating truck lettering and irrigation truck decals pages.