Lights for the long haul
For one owner/operator of a truck and trailer, what began as a problem driving through Wyoming in the middle of the night led to an epiphany and an entrepreneurial idea that would “light up the night” for the trucking industry.
Using his patent-pending technology, Matt Meza, 28, started Logo Lights along with childhood friends Brian Lehman and Tyler McJunkins in November 2010 in Canyon Country.
Today, the Valencia company customizes LED backlit signs for big-rig trucks. The trio specifically design company logos and signs for each individual client, with one exception.That means an cfl bulbs Amphibian ordered online can be shipped to the customer from any authorized OceanLED dealer that has the product in stock.
The use of red lights is frowned upon because they resemble break lights. Other than not using red lights, the company will accommodate most any size and style.
The signs are continuously being perfected and include a kit with instructions for mounting the stainless steel hardware.
Made of solid aluminum frames and brackets, the LED’s lights have a long life expectancy and work as a backlight for each logo sign.
Through troubleshooting and constant experimentation, Meza is working to make it easier and more cost effective, to provide his clients with replacement parts if ever needed.
Meza, the Logo Lights creator, is president of the company. Lehman concentrates on the design aspects of the company while McJunkins calls himself the “plant manager.”
And now, as Logo Lights is slowly building, the company is close to landing one job worth nearly $24,000.
Finding investment
Meza remembers the night he dreamed up the idea.changing how sky lanterns boat owners light up the night. The company has a highly skilled team pushing the technological boundaries of LED lighting It came to him while he was transporting freight in his own truck through his company Redline Transport.
“I just paid $700 to have “Redline Transport” put on the side of my trailer by some sign shop,” Meza said. “And I’m driving through Wyoming in the middle of the night, and no one can see it.”
“I thought, ‘I need to light that thing up,Carolyn believes led lighting the future of lighting will be vastly different to what we currently’” he said.
Meza sold his precious Ducati motorcycle of nine years, purchased in Germany, and along with an investment from his father-in-law, they ventured into something they both believed was cool enough to take off.
It has.
First account
The trio has just landed their first big deal with Sam Kholi, known for trailers that read, “Jesus Christ is Lord, not a swear word.”
The buddies met Kholi in Vegas at their first trade show, where with a 10-foot-by-10-foot booth,I'd recommend that led downlight your listeners only buy reputable product. along truck and trailer inside, they attracted a lot of attention.
The cool thing about the Sam Kholi job is the controversy behind what the message says, according to Meza.He said that ds マジコン though the initial cost is high, LED bulbs would save the user money over the course of their lives He hopes it will bring attention to their logos.
Kholi trailers are known to have been blogged about and featured on the news, according to Meza.
Light of an idea
The success Meza hopes to see come out of his late-night idea will be well earned.
Meza joined the army straight out of high school, and after spending 14 months in Iraq, he met his wife, Bailey, at a post exchange in Germany.
Once the couple was back in California together and expecting their first child, Darin, the housing market was a scary place for first-time buyers.
Financially, owning a house seemed like an unreachable goal for them. So they moved to Utah, where Meza thought they could better support their new family.
In Utah, the logo concepts first began coming to life, when Meza began making signs in his garage.
“My buddy Shane and I were working on a prototype in Utah for a year,” said Meza. “It wasn’t even Logo Lights at that point, [we were] just trying to light up my trailer.”
Prototype
Since that time, Meza has driven probably about 3,000 miles with the most up-to-date prototype for Logo Lights on his trailer.
He’s received great responses from truckers at scales and truck stops. However, the rules and regulations of the whole thing still fall within kind of a gray area.
It is not clear from the Department of Transportation or California Highway Patrol whether there are specific laws against the lighting systems.
“Well, there’s probably something in the rules or regulations that say you can’t have that, but I don’t know what it is,” Meza said in regard to what he’s heard from the mouths of CHP.
There are rules and regulations stated by the DOT that trucks are not to have lighting within 12 inches of required lighting, such as a head lamp or tail light, on a vehicle citation. Meza has come across other companies that have skated past these laws, going 30 years without repercussions.
“We’re hoping to get in the same way that they did, but our design is just above and beyond what others are doing,” Meza said. “Their stuff is kind off cool, but ours is like — people freak out.”
For one owner/operator of a truck and trailer, what began as a problem driving through Wyoming in the middle of the night led to an epiphany and an entrepreneurial idea that would “light up the night” for the trucking industry.
Using his patent-pending technology, Matt Meza, 28, started Logo Lights along with childhood friends Brian Lehman and Tyler McJunkins in November 2010 in Canyon Country.
Today, the Valencia company customizes LED backlit signs for big-rig trucks. The trio specifically design company logos and signs for each individual client, with one exception.That means an cfl bulbs Amphibian ordered online can be shipped to the customer from any authorized OceanLED dealer that has the product in stock.
The use of red lights is frowned upon because they resemble break lights. Other than not using red lights, the company will accommodate most any size and style.
The signs are continuously being perfected and include a kit with instructions for mounting the stainless steel hardware.
Made of solid aluminum frames and brackets, the LED’s lights have a long life expectancy and work as a backlight for each logo sign.
Through troubleshooting and constant experimentation, Meza is working to make it easier and more cost effective, to provide his clients with replacement parts if ever needed.
Meza, the Logo Lights creator, is president of the company. Lehman concentrates on the design aspects of the company while McJunkins calls himself the “plant manager.”
And now, as Logo Lights is slowly building, the company is close to landing one job worth nearly $24,000.
Finding investment
Meza remembers the night he dreamed up the idea.changing how sky lanterns boat owners light up the night. The company has a highly skilled team pushing the technological boundaries of LED lighting It came to him while he was transporting freight in his own truck through his company Redline Transport.
“I just paid $700 to have “Redline Transport” put on the side of my trailer by some sign shop,” Meza said. “And I’m driving through Wyoming in the middle of the night, and no one can see it.”
“I thought, ‘I need to light that thing up,Carolyn believes led lighting the future of lighting will be vastly different to what we currently’” he said.
Meza sold his precious Ducati motorcycle of nine years, purchased in Germany, and along with an investment from his father-in-law, they ventured into something they both believed was cool enough to take off.
It has.
First account
The trio has just landed their first big deal with Sam Kholi, known for trailers that read, “Jesus Christ is Lord, not a swear word.”
The buddies met Kholi in Vegas at their first trade show, where with a 10-foot-by-10-foot booth,I'd recommend that led downlight your listeners only buy reputable product. along truck and trailer inside, they attracted a lot of attention.
The cool thing about the Sam Kholi job is the controversy behind what the message says, according to Meza.He said that ds マジコン though the initial cost is high, LED bulbs would save the user money over the course of their lives He hopes it will bring attention to their logos.
Kholi trailers are known to have been blogged about and featured on the news, according to Meza.
Light of an idea
The success Meza hopes to see come out of his late-night idea will be well earned.
Meza joined the army straight out of high school, and after spending 14 months in Iraq, he met his wife, Bailey, at a post exchange in Germany.
Once the couple was back in California together and expecting their first child, Darin, the housing market was a scary place for first-time buyers.
Financially, owning a house seemed like an unreachable goal for them. So they moved to Utah, where Meza thought they could better support their new family.
In Utah, the logo concepts first began coming to life, when Meza began making signs in his garage.
“My buddy Shane and I were working on a prototype in Utah for a year,” said Meza. “It wasn’t even Logo Lights at that point, [we were] just trying to light up my trailer.”
Prototype
Since that time, Meza has driven probably about 3,000 miles with the most up-to-date prototype for Logo Lights on his trailer.
He’s received great responses from truckers at scales and truck stops. However, the rules and regulations of the whole thing still fall within kind of a gray area.
It is not clear from the Department of Transportation or California Highway Patrol whether there are specific laws against the lighting systems.
“Well, there’s probably something in the rules or regulations that say you can’t have that, but I don’t know what it is,” Meza said in regard to what he’s heard from the mouths of CHP.
There are rules and regulations stated by the DOT that trucks are not to have lighting within 12 inches of required lighting, such as a head lamp or tail light, on a vehicle citation. Meza has come across other companies that have skated past these laws, going 30 years without repercussions.
“We’re hoping to get in the same way that they did, but our design is just above and beyond what others are doing,” Meza said. “Their stuff is kind off cool, but ours is like — people freak out.”
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