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Protecting Your Tractor Paint from company placards and stickers

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by POINTDEXTER, Jul 22, 2014.

  1. Jul 22, 2014 #1
    POINTDEXTER

    POINTDEXTER Light Load Member

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    I just got me another truck and getting ready to lease on with a new company. The truck has pretty decent paint and I'd l like to keep it up. I was contemplating putting the company placards on the tanks. I do see trucks where the have sturdy plastic signs made up or use some type of thin metal (stainless steel?) to put placards and IFTA stickers on. I've never noticed and metal or items like this in the truck stops or my local truck supply? I would like to be to able to later remove my yearly stickers or placards without messing up the sides of my sleeper.
    Thanx in advance
     
    POINTDEXTER, Jul 22, 2014
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  3. Jul 22, 2014 #2
    spyder7723

    spyder7723 Road Train Member

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    Don't be a cheap ### and get quality signs made up. They won't mess up the paint when you take them off. For ifta decals, put the new ones right over the old.
     
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  4. Jul 22, 2014 #3
    SHO-TYME

    SHO-TYME Road Train Member

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    I've got stainless plates on the side of my truck for the IFTA stickers, a heat gun and they come off.
     
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  5. Jul 22, 2014 #4
    POINTDEXTER

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    Thanx Sho where did you get the stainless plates from?
     
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  7. Jul 22, 2014 #5
    spyder7723

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    Betcha showtyme made them. Just go buy some thin stainless right angle one edge and bolt them on the under side of the cab. Any machine shop should be able to sell you cut and angled sheets, just got to give them the dimensions.
     
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  8. Jul 23, 2014 #6
    Studebaker Hawk

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    I went to a sign shop and got 2 rectangular 4"x8" pieces of the vinyl material used to make the letters in a color to match the truck. Can't even tell they are there. Put the ifta decals on the material, they peel right off of the material without disturbing the paint. Several carriers do the same thing. Cheap too.
    Graphics and lettering are always going to keep the underlying paint from weathering. Either dont change companies or change the location/ position of them every so often.
     
    Studebaker Hawk, Jul 23, 2014
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