How to price decals for a box truck ?

[Printer101]

Never mind , I figured it out .

 

[Stacey K]

First off, 651 is a calendared film, you should be using 751 cast on vehicles and trailers.

If you just double your materials that doesn't even touch your installation. A roll of 651 24"x10yd is around $50x6=$300 x2=$600 that's a MINIMUM price for a box truck with a small logo on each side and rear.

Cutting, weeding, masking, organizing 6 rolls is going to take a full day. I usually say about 2 hours per side for a van with cut vinyl logo, phone, etc. 30-60 minutes for the rear. You are waaaaay off on your pricing.

A box truck with cut lettering is a usually a minimum of 1k...and trailers kinda the same so that's like 4k and you're charging $600. Not sure how much your fence is going to cost but for one person and 2 box trucks and 2 trailers that's like 2 weeks of work for me LOL

 

[Printer101]

First off, 651 is a calendared film, you should be using 751 cast on vehicles and trailers.

If you just double your materials that doesn't even touch your installation. A roll of 651 24"x10yd is around $50x6=$300 x2=$600 that's a MINIMUM price for a box truck with a small logo on each side and rear.

Cutting, weeding, masking, organizing 6 rolls is going to take a full day. I usually say about 2 hours per side for a van with cut vinyl logo, phone, etc. 30-60 minutes for the rear. You are waaaaay off on your pricing.

A box truck with cut lettering is a usually a minimum of 1k...and trailers kinda the same so that's like 4k and you're charging $600. Not sure how much your fence is going to cost but for one person and 2 box trucks and 2 trailers that's like 2 weeks of work for me LOL

I forgot to include my calculations, sorry .
My calculations for materials were for 50 yards rolls , 30"x 50 y = ( 165$ x 6 ) x 2 ( for transfer tape). Which is 1980$ and then x2 , so I was planning to charge 4000$ . So thats too cheap ?
I ll check 751 vinyl , thank you for suggestion

 

[Printer101]

I forgot to include my calculations, sorry .
My calculations for materials were for 50 yards rolls , 30"x 50 y = ( 165$ x 6 ) x 2 ( for transfer tape). Which is 1980$ and then x2 , so I was planning to charge 4000$ . So thats too cheap ?
I ll check 751 vinyl , thank you for suggestion

Installation not included in our deal

 

[Stacey K]

That doesn't seem to make any sense. A 26' box truck wrapped would be one roll of your 30"x50yd, so x 2 = 2 rolls. You stated "decals" so that leads me to believe a logo with phone/website.

Is this a wrap or solid cut vinyl? How big is the trailer like 52' semi?

And yes, it's too cheap. You take materials x 2 (that's for mistakes on your end and your time to order, etc) and you add your labor on top of that then any profit. You should be charging $80-100 per hour for labor for installation.

If you are using $1980 of materials - that is a MAJOR job. Way more of a job than $2000 in labor. $2000 in labor for me is 20 hours of work which is about 3-4 days considering lunch, email, phone calls, breaks, bathroom breaks, etc. Cutting 6 - 50 yd rolls of vinyl is like 2-3 full days of work and you didn't even touch the trailer yet.

Check your calculations again.

 

[untitled]

I don't normally respond to these but this makes no sense. How massively huge are these box trucks to need 900 linear feet of material? Are you wrapping them in a single color of 30in material and then adding single color vinyl over that? It's hard for others to give you an idea on pricing without actually knowing more details. While I do double material cost there is still time involved in putting together the artwork and cutting/weeding. So if I were just supplying the cut material for them to install themselves it would be double the costs + pre production/production hours. But I still can't imagine using 900 linear feet of material on two box trucks and a trailer, unless they are much bigger units than what I have in my head. There certainly has to be a more efficient way for it to be done.

Also, as Stacey mentioned 651 is the wrong material for the job. At least use 751.

 

[Gino]

Why would you remove your entire OP ?? Now, no one can be helped by your original request, not to mention how these others helped you or what you ended up doing.

 

[Stacey K]

Right? Geez...willing to help and clearly he had the wrong calculations - not a big deal! Heck - just send us a picture and we can pretty much figure it out LOL