Sell advertisement space on trailer.

What would something like that pay? I'd prefer my trailer stay plain but if the money was in it....

 

See my response in the other thread.

 

It's not a bad idea. Here would be my concern, you get an ad on your trailer for say Nestle candy. Now your just about banned from any competitor of Nestle. Also, a company I used to work for "wrapped" their trailers for a particular customer. Well, after 8 years those wraps looked like death warmed over and were extremely difficult and costly to remove not to mention the customer stopped paying long before the wraps came off.

 

That's the carrier's fault as they didn't include in the contract the cost of removing the graphics. Either that or they took the money and didn't remove them.

 

I had a contract hauling regional for a manufacturing company, lasted about 15 years. One time a company saleman came up with the idea of placing the logo of the company on my trailers. Good, cheap advertising he thought . I agreed, not really wanting to but they were a great account to have. They offered to pay for washing my trailers in exchange.Their lawyers quickly said "NO". They explained it to me this way. 1] possible liability exposure. Even if no link to truck, if a wreck they would have to go to court and prove they were only advertising, and had no liability.And they had very deep pockets. 2] if I was at a competitors place of business { which I picked up and delivered to at times, when product was discreetly exchanged between them ] could be embarrasing. 3] if I cut you off in traffic, splashed water from the road on you as you walked along the street,and lots of other things trucks do to make folks mad, all the person would remember was the LOGO on the trailer, and possibly cost the company a customer.
My only objection was it made me easier to describe / identify the truck in case I caused a problem. I prefer to be under the radar as much as possible. Run silent, run deep.