USDOT/WB truck numbers reversed?

[gnubler]

Doing graphics & truck numbers for a tractor trailer and my customer is insisting the numbers on the passenger side need to in reverse order so they scan correctly when he goes through scales. Example: on the driver's side the wheelbase lettering will read "326 WB" and on the passenger side it'll read "BW 623". Not mirrored, just in reverse order. Is this actually a thing or is my customer on crack? He said he got cited once because they didn't scan correctly. I found nothing on a Google search.

 

[Boudica]

 

[rjssigns]

Time for the driver to put the pipe down. I've lettered a lot of dump trucks and semis and did some not that long ago, wasn't told to reverse anything.

 

[gnubler]

I did say he's a truck driver, didn't I? They are a special breed.

 

[Stacey K]

Every time someone says crack I think of Whitney Houston ... Crack is Whack

 

[James Burke]

Yzarc yletulosba sdnuos taht!

But as long as he insists, break it down and send him TWO invoices....$59 for first door, and $95 for the other.

JB

 

[Notarealsignguy]

I have never even heard of wheelbase being required on a truck door, it doesnt even make sense. Permits and weight restrictions are basically based on axle groupings, spread and overall length which changes depending on your trailer, 5th wheel setting etc. I don't think that wheelbase even means anything in that realm?

 

[gnubler]

But as long as he insists, break it down and send him TWO invoices....$59 for first door, and $95 for the other.

Brilliant!

The WB number is going up on side windows. I've never seen or done a wheelbase number either, forward or backward...

 

[James Burke]

Permits and weight restrictions are basically based on axle groupings, spread and overall length which changes depending on your trailer, 5th wheel setting etc.

Sounds like a job for digital message boards on the sides of the cab.....mark my words.

JB

 

[Boudica]

What's the stupidest thing you've sold to a customer

Stupid is not the right word. Something that is readily available elsewhere, but the customer insists on having you build it. Kinda like having a welding shop fab a mailbox. We just completed a paper holder for 8.5x11 pages, it will end up costing around $150. Before we started I had the...

www.signs101.com

Evidently Gene@mpls lettered this guy's boat 20 years ago?

I was just thinking about that... but wasn't sure what thread I saw it in.

 

[ChaseO]

I probably letter 300 commercial trucks a year, and I've never heard that. In most states, the USDOT number is all you need, but CO for example requires a VIN number. Some guys want the bare minimum, other guys want to put every number they can think of on the side.

 

[Z SIGNS]

Wow you really needed to ask if he correct and that's how it's done SMH

 

[Notarealsignguy]

I probably letter 300 commercial trucks a year, and I've never heard that. In most states, the USDOT number is all you need, but CO for example requires a VIN number. Some guys want the bare minimum, other guys want to put every number they can think of on the side.

You have to have the company name as well as the terminal city plus usdot numbers. For interstate, you also have to have an ICC MC number and last 8 of the vin on the truck. Down here, intrastate only dot numbers have to have FL after them and they cite people for that all of the time. Or when people just put DOT... They're particular

 

[weyandsign]

You have to have the company name as well as the terminal city plus usdot numbers. For interstate, you also have to have an ICC MC number and last 8 of the vin on the truck. Down here, intrastate only dot numbers have to have FL after them and they cite people for that all of the time. Or when people just put DOT... They're particular

I don't think city or MC number is required anymore. But I could be wrong.

 

[Texas_Signmaker]

MC numbers are required!

Gnubler...I think you're making some of these threads up.

 

[rjssigns]

In Wisconsin if you're hauling solid waste or recyclables you also need a WDNR number. Everybody has to get their cut...

 

[Notarealsignguy]

I don't think city or MC number is required anymore. But I could be wrong.

still required. that is not going to go away

 

[gnubler]

Gnubler...I think you're making some of these threads up.

In this business anything is possible. Wait, what?

 

[Johnny Best]

MC numbers are required!

Gnubler...I think you're making some of these threads up.

Looking for friends and advice, Sigh101.

 

[Billct2]

tell him to check his cab for the exhaust leak that is killing his brain cells