Union County, NC
Vehicle wraps in Monroe
Monroe is the one city on this list where a graphic's audience physically moved. When the Monroe Expressway opened, through traffic came off US-74 Business, so a vehicle working Roosevelt Boulevard is now read by local traffic while a vehicle running the bypass is passed by a great many people at speed and by none of them slowly. Monroe is also the most industrial and the most agricultural place covered here: plants along the US-74 corridor, an airport with real freight and corporate movements, and Union County farmland starting at the edge of town.
Get a quoteWhat we see on Monroe roads
The mix out here is heavier and dirtier than anything else on the list. Flatbeds and lowboys hauling machinery and implements, grain and livestock trailers, plant service trucks, contractor rigs working out of the industrial corridor. Two things follow from it. Anything printed on the deck side of an equipment trailer is a consumable, because chain, binder and load all land on it, so it gets planned as a piece replaceable on its own rather than as part of one graphic. And farm and plant vehicles arrive with dust, fertilizer or process residue driven into every seam and around every fastener, which a wash bay does not fully lift and which works back out from under film later if it is left there.
Corridors we work along
- the Monroe Expressway (US-74)
- Roosevelt Boulevard (US-74 Business)
- Concord Highway (NC-200)
- US-601
- Secrest Shortcut Road
Nearby
- Charlotte-Monroe Executive Airport
- the Union County courthouse in downtown Monroe
- Monroe Crossing Mall
Vehicles we wrap for Monroe customers
Monroe questions
Does the Expressway change what is worth covering?
- It changes the arithmetic behind covering a vehicle at all. A fleet that moved onto the bypass to save time gave up the frontage its graphics used to earn on the old route, and the honest read is that a truck spending its day on a toll road is being seen by far fewer people than it was. That argues for putting the money into the units still working the town.
Can implements and machinery be lettered as well as the trucks?
- Flat painted panels on a machine take film. Weld seams, worn edges and any surface that scrapes material do not hold it for long, and we will say which is which before quoting rather than afterward. On most hauling operations the truck doors and the trailer carry the identification and the machine carries a mark at most.
What does a farm or plant vehicle need before anything is printed?
- Bay time at the front of the job. Residue worked into seams and around fasteners has to come out before adhesive goes anywhere near the panel, and that runs slower on these vehicles than on a town van. We quote the prep in rather than discover it on the morning the truck arrives.