3 New Lawn Care Trucks FINISHED!

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Hey everyone, it's Mike with landscape businesscorners.com and today I'm going to show you three new trucks that we have purchased. If you look, if you went back a couple weeks ago, you saw us buy these brand new, I think the one over here was red, these both were white. Now they've been painted, they've had a decals put on them. So I'm going to run you through them again, run you over the total cost that it took to paint and decal. If you're interested in the trucks themselves, go ahead and look at that video a couple weeks ago. It'll be in the description. We actually first bought the truck trucks exactly what they are. So for example, like this one is a long bed 2014 Chevy Silverado 1500. And that is going to be the trailerless setup with the ramp rack. And for mowing, one in the middle here, 4x4 short bed F Silverado 2014 as well. Both these have around 100,000 miles. We purchased both of them, one for 12,500 and the other one for 13,000. Exactly. So over here, this one was a cheaper truck. It's a long bed, two wheel drive. And this is also used for mowing is a trailerless setup, the 2006 Chevy Silverado and this one got for 8,000. So feel free to check out the other videos talking a little more about the trucks. But today I want to talk about why we paint and the decals and all that good stuff. So as so many of you pointed out yesterday on the decal video, yes, they forgotten E. I just wanted everyone to see this because every single comment said the same thing. So yes, the E was missing. We're going to contact Pro Graphics. They'll get us that E we'll get put on. But let me kind of walk you through why we do graphics. A lot of people asked this in the comments yesterday and asked me this pretty consistently about why do we paint versus wrap with vinyl, the entire thing, etc. So here we pay about $1,000 to get our trucks painted. So a lot of our franchisees down the Southeast, they're able to get their trucks painted for literally four to five hundred dollars. I think the lowest I've seen is four. And so certain states are gonna be a lot cheaper. There's state some states though, it's very expensive. For example in Texas, El Paso, Texas, our franchisee down there, he could hardly find a place to get paint done for under $2,000. So it really is territory dependent. Even if you use the Same company, so we use Mako. They're a cheap franchise based painting company. We get the cheapest package and it's not perfect. Like you're not gonna put this on a Mercedes Benz, this paint job, but it's good enough. It covers up all the nicks, the dings and you know, in terms of you can see it's really good. We don't have any drips or speckles. They do a good job in terms of the overall, but like it's not going to be tight. For example, on the inside, the door jambs, that does not include getting these painted. You can kind of see a little bit of overspray from the fact that they don't tape this all off. They literally just spray it from the outside. All right, but again, again, I don't need the inside of the door jambs to be the same color. All right, so we get this very base package in our market, $1,000, I've seen as low as 500. I've seen as high as 2,000. Now let's talk a little bit about the decals.

What we put on for those. So paint. We have a yellow blend. Again, about $1,000 in our market, ranging anywhere from 500 to 2,000 across the United States and Canada for the decals. As you saw yesterday, we installed these at a company locally and these cost US$500 installed. So if the franchisees need them, I think we charge them about $400 and we ship them to them for 400 bucks. But if you are going to your local place to get decals put on, don't spend more than, you know, five, six hundred dollars, I guess on the upper limits of where you should be spending. If you're just putting stickers on. So you can see here, these are large stickers, even though they are cut out to be letters. And so it's a lot of manual. You saw yesterday in the video taping, lining things up. They use a blowtorch. I talked about it a couple, a couple of weeks ago when we use the estimate car as an example. But I really do like having professionals install it just because how clean their cuts are, whether it be on the door hinges, whether it be between the joint of the bed and the cab and even the gas cap. Things like that can usually lead to where it starts to peel or it begins to bubble up over time. So we've never had a problem with that. We never had to like re sticker a truck because of them peeling off. And especially if you have a line that Goes along the bed the entire length of the truck at that point. That's a lot of times where moisture will get in behind if you don't install it just correctly. So we do have professionals install it. Cost US$500 for the printing and the installation part of it. Now, why do we not vinyl wrap the entire truck? Why would we paint and do the decals? So for us, it's about $1,500 for us to get it painted and the decals. So all in, we're looking at about $1,500, including tax. Now, if we were to wrap these trucks in our market, it would cost about $4,000. Now, I know that in some of your markets, that would cost 1500. And then it's a matter of, okay, do we do vinyl decals like this, or do you do a vinyl wrap and actually cover the entire truck with the yellow? And it's all been covered with vinyl. So a couple reasons why we don't do it. Number one, cost prohibitive. That is the main reason. If it was, you know, 1500 for decals, 1500 for a wrap, that'd be a conversation. I might think about trying to do a wrap. But for us, three times more expensive is not worth getting the wrap. But more importantly, another thing that I'm an advocate of painting is on a vinyl decal. On a vinyl wrap, I should say, if a rack drops while you're loading at the back of a bed and it nicks the vinyl, that can cause moisture to get in over time separation. And you know, for some of you, you say, hey, I've never had that problem at all, and that's great. But if you have like a piece of equipment, for example, bump up against this and create a dent, and there's a vinyl wrap that is automatically going to separate the vinyl from the metal of the truck. And over time, it's going to bubble, it's going to tear. For example, if I scratch this, I can take it in, get it buffed out and repainted, and it's totally fine. If in five years we're still using this truck, we will literally take the decals off, paint the whole thing. Again, it looked brand new for 1500. So again, if your vinyl, though, only costs 1500, that's when it becomes a discussion. So the number one thing for us is price. The second thing is if there is a ding, a dent, it's very easy to buff it out and paint a small section instead of if it's a vinyl wrap, you really have to do A whole panel. And then it's a lot more labor to stick it in around all of the edges and cut it and get it all exactly right. So this is more of a work truck. We're going to have rocks being put in the back. It's going to be dinged, it's going to be dented. Stuff, guys, guys back into stuff accidentally. So we do not want to be having where it's going to number one. As I've talked about before, super expensive with a big loan on it. But also for us, the vinyl wrap doesn't make sense because of the cost and because the fact that if you are working on trucks, equipment, rocks, etc. And there's dents and dings, we don't want that bubbling up. We don't want it starting to tear. And then it just looks really, really crummy. And so that's kind of the logic behind why we do paint and the stickers versus doing a vinyl wrap. So comment below. If you do a vinyl wrap, how much you paid for or if you paint your trucks, how much you paid for your paint to get applied? Because that's the biggest variable in all of this is how much do you have to pay for this truck to get painted. And I've seen it range anywhere from 500 to 2000. So hopefully this was helpful for you. Watch the previous videos if you're more interested about the trucks themselves. Why we bought them we bought four vehicles total, one estimate truck. Three of these pickup trucks. Two of them are going to be used for land for mowing. One of them is going to be used on the landscaping side of things. But thanks so much for watching. I'm Mike Andes. We'll see you on the next one.