Mecklenburg County, NC
Vehicle wraps in Charlotte
Charlotte is the only city on this list with a rail yard, an international airport and a high-rise core inside the same county, and the vehicle work that comes off those three has almost nothing in common. Container tractors turn loads at the intermodal terminal by the airport. Straight trucks run air cargo along the Wilkinson Boulevard corridor around the clock. Service vans work uptown buildings and live in parking decks with a height bar over the entrance. One city, three unrelated sets of constraints on a graphic.
Get a quoteWhat we see on Charlotte roads
Three vehicle populations meet here and only one of them is a fleet in the ordinary sense. Container tractors working the intermodal terminal change carrier more often than they change tires, so whatever identifies the operator is built to lift off on its own without disturbing the graphic underneath it. Air freight straight trucks on the western corridor run day and night and arrive with brake dust and ramp grime worked into every seam, which is prep hours before it is install hours. Uptown service vans are bought low-roof because a deck height bar rules out anything taller, and that decision caps the readable side height before a designer opens a file.
Corridors we work along
- Wilkinson Boulevard (US-74)
- South Boulevard
- Freedom Drive
- Westinghouse Boulevard
- I-85
Nearby
- Charlotte Douglas International Airport
- the Norfolk Southern intermodal terminal
- the Charlotte Regional Farmers Market
- uptown Charlotte
Vehicles we wrap for Charlotte customers
Charlotte questions
Can a wrap be done at a jobsite or a yard instead of the shop?
- No. Film needs an indoor bay at temperature, still air, and light good enough to inspect under, and none of those exist on an uptown site or on a lot off Freedom Drive. The vehicle comes to us and stays for the booking. What we do work around is the operation: units are taken in a sequence agreed with whoever dispatches them, so the business is never short more than it planned to be.
Does a parking deck change what is worth covering on a van?
- It changes the van before it changes the graphic. A height bar decides which body the operator was able to buy, and a low-roof unit has less side above the swage line than the same model with a tall roof. On a van that spends its day under a building, coverage belongs on the flanks and the rear doors, and anything spent on the roof is spent on a panel nobody is standing in the right place to read.
What does a container tractor need that a service van does not?
- A plan for the parts that change. Tractors on this side of town move between carriers and lessors, and the identification on the door moves with them. We lay those elements out as separate pieces with their own edges, so a change is one small job on one panel, and we name those pieces before anything is printed.