About

What we do

We cut vinyl compliance markings for commercial vehicles — legal name, USDOT number, state numbers, gross vehicle weight, Not For Hire. Made to order, shipped next day, sold as pairs because a truck has two doors.

Why the name

Federal rule 49 CFR 390.21 says a marking has to be "readily legible, during daylight hours, from a distance of 50 feet while the commercial motor vehicle is stationary."

That sentence is the whole job. It is a legibility standard, not a size — and the difference matters, because most of this industry will tell you the law requires 2 inch letters. It does not. Two inches is what we cut because it reliably meets the standard on a truck door, which is a recommendation we can defend rather than a rule we invented.

Getting that right is the reason to trust everything else on this site.

How we work

Every order is cut from the line data you give us, once, for both doors. The two sides match because they came off the same file. Nobody re-keys your USDOT number between the left door and the right.

Every order ships with a spec sheet stating the letter height we cut, the contrast pairing, and the CFR section the marking satisfies. It costs us almost nothing and it is what a driver hands an officer instead of shrugging.

What we will tell you

That you do not need the decal you came for, if you do not.

The MC number product page opens by explaining that FMCSA no longer requires most carriers to display one. The Not For Hire page says plainly that no federal rule makes it universal. The GVW page says it is a state and permit question.

We would rather lose the sale than be the reason someone believed something wrong about their own compliance. In this category that is the entire product.

What we are not

We are not a law firm and nothing here is legal advice. We read the regulations, we cite them, we link to the primary source, and we tell you to confirm with the issuing agency. Where we have not verified a state's rules, the page says so instead of guessing.