After a hail storm, every roofer in three counties is on the same street. The truck that's lettered right gets the door answered.
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Example text for a roofing business (a made-up company; 555 numbers are placeholders). Real text, so you can read it the way a customer would.
A roofing crew runs a 3/4-ton or 1-ton pickup with a dump trailer of tear-off, or a dump truck, and the shingle delivery comes on a boom truck. Tear-off is heavy (a roof's worth of asphalt shingles weighs tons), so a loaded dump trailer behind a pickup is a combination that regularly exceeds the federal marking line on combined rating, and a dump truck is over it on its own. In roofing the compliance set is part of the lettering order more often than not; the checker uses your real ratings.
The federal rule (from the same verified data as our checker): name and USDOT number on both sides of the power unit from 10,001 lbs (49 CFR 390.21T(b)(2)); other triggers in the federal box below.
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These are the roofing vehicle-marking rules we have read in the state's own statute or regulation. States not listed: we have not verified a rule for them (our research notes list which ones were checked).
| On the vehicle | Business name and contractor's license number, in or on each commercially registered motor vehicle used in the construction business, in a clearly visible location, at least 72-point type or 3/4 inch high and wide. |
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| On the vehicle | The registration or certification number must be conspicuously and legibly displayed with that name, text or artwork. Vehicle signage itself is not mandatory; local governments may add a competency/license number requirement. |
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| On the vehicle | The licensee's name and license number on each commercial motor vehicle registered under the licensee's name, letters and numbers approximately 1 1/2 inches high. |
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Often, because a pickup pulling a loaded dump trailer, or a dump truck, is rated over the federal line; if you cross state lines the federal markings apply, and many states apply an intrastate rule. The checker above runs your truck and trailer ratings and lists what goes on the doors.
Florida's conditional rule, and the California and Nevada licensee rules, are quoted below. Some do. Texas, for one, has no state roofing license, so there is no state number to put on a Texas roofing truck.
Both front doors of the pickup (the power unit), in a contrasting color, readable from 50 feet: the USDOT number and the legal name, plus any state number. The advertising lettering goes around them on the doors and bed sides.
Company name, phone number and the roof-type line on the sides; the stay-back decal and the number on the rear gate. Trailers get separated from trucks; each carries the name.
Yes. Matched sets for every truck and trailer, with unit numbers, fleet pricing from 15 units, and multi-color logo sets for 30 or more ship in 3 to 5 business days. Order before the season, not during it.
Fleet pricing from 15 vehicles, matched layouts across every unit, unit numbers included, one proof for the whole batch.
See fleet & volume pricing →General information, not legal advice. Each rule above shows the date we last verified it against the cited source; the state agency has the final word.
