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Tony Gibbs’

Truck Writers

Hand-painted signwriting, truck lettering and pinstriping from one of the few signwriters still working freehand.

0412 254 508 Call Tony, or email truckwriters@hotmail.com
Green Kenworth with Ahern Haulage lettering and cream stripes, parked outside the Truck Writers workshop
A lettered Kenworth outside the workshop

Lettered by hand, the way it used to be done

Tony Gibbs has been a signwriter for more than 30 years, and he still paints freehand with a brush. Not many people in the trade can say that any more.

He pairs that brushwork with computer design and cut vinyl, so a fleet of trucks, a single trailer, a boat or a hot rod each gets the method that suits it.

Tony Gibbs holding a brush and a tin of paint beside blue pinstripe scroll work
Tony with a brush, beside freehand scroll work.

What Tony does

From the brush

Painted by hand, one stroke at a time.

  • Traditional freehand signwriting
  • Trucks, trailers, buses and coaches
  • Freehand pinstriping for hot rods and vintage cars
  • Boat and marine signwriting

From the drawing board and plotter

Designed on screen, cut clean.

  • Logo design
  • Computer-cut vinyl lettering
  • Overlays and vehicle wraps

From the Truck Writers gallery

Parry Logistics lettering in blue and cream script on a maroon truck
Lettering and scrolls on a truck door
Silver Kenworth prime mover with Rose Transport lettering and flowing blue and gold pinstripe scrolls
Scroll work down a Kenworth bonnet
Ahern Haulage script lettering on a green Kenworth door
Script lettering on a cab door
Red and black pinstriping around a bulldog emblem on a white truck guard
Pinstriping on a guard
Pinstriped emblem on the yellow tailgate of a ute
Pinstriped tailgate
Older photo of a white and blue International truck with a hand-lettered door reading Central West Freight, Wagga Dubbo
Old-school hand-lettered door
Yellow, green and silver coach with Bega Valley Coaches lettering
Lettering and stripes on a coach
Clayton's Towing Service trailer covered in a full printed graphic
Full trailer graphics
A pinstriped panel above a board of painted company logos
Logos and a scroll panel

The workshop

Unit 26, 11 Pasturage Road
Caboolture QLD 4510

Based in Brisbane. Call Tony to arrange a time before you bring a vehicle in.

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Phone
0412 254 508
Email
truckwriters@hotmail.com