Service areas
Where the jersey crew travels
Merch Troop is based in Orange County, California. Presses, blanks, tablets and crew load onto a truck and go — every week — across Southern California and Las Vegas, with nationwide travel for programs that warrant it.
Regions
Four we work constantly
- Orange CountyHome base. Shortest load-in, no travel charge, easiest same-week bookings.
- Los AngelesStudios, stadiums, plazas and downtown venues with real logistics rules.
- San DiegoConvention floors, waterfront activations and tournament weekends.
- Las VegasShow floors and resort venues, with union and dock rules that shape the build.
Travel is $0 within Orange County, Los Angeles and San Diego. Outside that radius it is $900, which covers the crew's transit and the equipment move. Nationwide programs add freight and lodging, quoted openly rather than folded into a mystery line item.
Anywhere else in the country, ask. We plan national programs with enough lead time to ship equipment properly instead of improvising on arrival. (562) 614-4800.
A note on lead time by distance: a local booking can genuinely come together in a week if the art is simple and we are sourcing standard blanks. A Las Vegas show floor cannot, because the electrical order and the freight both have deadlines set by the venue rather than by us. National programs want a month minimum, more if garments are being sourced in volume or a custom numeral face has to be drawn and proofed.
Wherever the event is, the pricing structure is the same: staffed stations from around $5,000 locally, staffing at $250/hr including setup and teardown, and most corporate programs landing between $25 and $40 per guest all-in once blanks, crew and prep are counted.
Constant
What does not change with the zip code
The same production line runs everywhere: full-color DTF names and numbers on a heat press, tablet intake creating numbered tickets, lanes balanced by least-pending-work, one operator per press, adult XS–3XL with per-size caps. What changes is logistics — load-in windows, power sourcing, dock access and labor rules.
That is why the venue conversation matters more than the city. A downtown high-rise and a suburban park are different jobs in the same county. Send the venue and we will read its rules.
What travel distance genuinely changes is contingency. Close to home we carry deeper spares and can send a runner. Further out we plan redundancy into the kit instead — extra presses, extra transfer stock, and a load-in schedule with enough slack that a delayed dock does not compress the setup window.
Crew composition is the other constant. Every build gets tablet intake staff, one operator per press, and a supervisor watching pending work per lane. On three- and four-lane setups a blank runner is added, because keeping presses stocked buys more throughput than another machine would. That structure does not change because a job is out of state.
What we ask for is the same everywhere too: hours and run of show, jersey target, garment source, art status, and the venue's operations packet if it has one. Send those and the quote comes back with the lane math attached so you can see what you are buying.