Attaching placards in the rain?

If you can find them, just at the right time.
I don't think I have ever even seen them in truck stops.

 

Then it gets... difficult.

Sometimes if we are pulling a few loads as a team, one of us will hold a garbage sack over the area to try and keep it relatively dry while the other does the squeegee and towel work.

The most secure solution is flip board placards. I have those for my truck, but only for a single UN number.

 

I've used that black gorilla tape (supposed to be a little better than duct tape, don't know if it is) around the borders and no one has said anything to me. As long as you are only attaching to the borders you aren't obscuring any more than a standard metal placard holder does.

 

Get a couple pieces of metal same size as placcards. Stick on placcards at home, carry in truck. Attach them on the sides of the landing gear with zip ties or a bracket. The rear one put on a metal piece with a bracket that will be between the doors when closed. For the front of the trailer make bracket to bolt on to the assembly that holds the light cord receptical. Think outside the box, be creative. We used to haul matches and always had problems with stick on placcards in the winter, so our shop made some aluminum small sheets put the stick on placcards on them, then made holes so the placcard would go over the placcard assembly on the trailer, held on by flipping the clips over it. Solved our problem.

 

I put placardson in the rain once. Only once.

 

I sometimes do "drive away" for oil companies. My company is contracted to supply drivers when our customers don't have enough drivers. A typical scenario is a frack site move. Dozens of trucks need to be moved, but only 10 frack crew members have a CDL.

Frack sites can be filthy. As a drive away driver you show up in a chase van, go find your truck, pretrip the #### out of it (unbelievable what you find), THEN put your own company decals and DOT stickers over theirs (since you are driving under your own company authority, not theirs).

Did I mention frack sites are messy? When it's windy, fracking fluid blows over EVERYTHING. I bring a bottle of degreaser in my "Go Bag". Decal stickers won't stick to fracking fluid. Degreaser on the windshield and mirrors is needed. It's not uncommon to go through a whole bottle of degreaser and a roll of shop towels to prep a truck to move.

Then do all that in the rain. It's a special place in Hades. But it pays well.

Then repeat that another two times before ending your shift.

I have found that simply pressing on a decal on a moist surface and HOLDING there for about a minute seems to work. It's harder if the degreaser hasn't fully dried in a rainstorm.

 

When wireline comes out of the hole in the wind and that stuff blows onto your truck and sets up you about have to use a razorblade to scrape it off. Hate fracs.

 

I tried razor blades. All it does is smear it on the windshield. Better just to drive with a peekaboo look through the splatters and don't use the windshield wipers. Best to spray it down with degreaser. Lots of guys use brake cleaning fluid, which is nasty. I use orange cleaner. It takes some elbow grease and a whole roll of shop towels to get it done right, usually needs two or three applications to finish it.

 

Placards holder from eastern Placards

EasternPlacards

 

Look in the area of flags and Banners, they are expensive