Best way to remove Placards? Experienced advice needed.

I would just get some brown meat packers paper and tape it over them, you never know they may be needed again sometime, worst case the container is covered in brown paper and the owners have to PAY someone to remove them.

 

The workers in the port make you wish you were dealing with DOT. They will reject empties with remnants of the placard still on. Brake cleaner and the scraper shown above will take the placard off, 1,2,3. It will take the paint too, but who cares?

 

Getting them off at 80 degrees F and getting them off at 5 degrees F are 2 different exercises. In the cold, 120 AC, extension cord, and a heat gun is almost mandatory but can be very slow and tedious when outdoors.

I've never tried glue solvent (goof off, wd-40, etc) and I'm unsure if this stuff penetrates the placard from the face, or must "fall in behind" the placard as it is worked off (this seems very costly and tedious option too). I will defer to others for more info on this technique.

 

I must have a magic scraper, it removes placards, with little effort.

 

At the Swift shops they have intermodal containers full of Acetone in spray cans for removing decals,reflective tape and logos on trucks and trailers. Some drivers like to paint over the 1-800 numbers for calling in erratic driving and deface the Award Winning Drivers logos. So the shops remove them and put fresh ones on. Also good for removing te reflective tape that gets torn up down the sides of the trailer and the ICC bumper to it can be replaced.

Here's my go to solution:

 

dude,,,, trim those nails lol

 

what ever you do there driver, DO NOT commit suicide.

that rusty blade will give you blood poisioning....then you might die.

 

propane torch just burn the darn things off.

 

I always carried a can of semi-gloss white spray paint with me. I'd peel off as much of the placard as I could, but if it was being a stubborn SOB, I hit the leftovers with the paint.