We're fixing that. PLSIC is building the standards, the credential, and the directory this trade has never had. Founding candidacy closes September 14, 2026.
Parking lot striping is a multi-billion-dollar segment of pavement maintenance, performed by thousands of crews across the United States. Until 2026, it had no standards body, no published quality specifications, no professional certification, and no central directory of qualified contractors. Property owners had no way to verify who knew what they were doing. Contractors who had trained for a decade had no way to prove it. Suppliers had no table to write rules at. PLSIC exists to fix all of that.
Standards. A credential. A directory. The things every other trade takes for granted, being built now, by the people who actually do the work.
The PLSIC standards series covers surface preparation, materials, ADA compliance, layout geometry, and inspection protocols, written by working contractors, peer-reviewed, and published openly. Cite them in RFPs. Build to them on the job.
The Certified Parking Lot Striper™ credential validates real-world competence at three levels. The credential belongs to the individual, not the company, and moves with them across employers.
A directory of CPLS-certified contractors, a toolset for property owners to monitor their lots, and a data platform underneath, stall geometry, ADA compliance flags, condition tracking, and estimates grounded in actual PLSIC standards.
Tell us who you are. We route you to the right person at PLSIC and keep you in the loop as the program launches. One minute. No pitch.
A real credential. A standard you can point to when a client asks why your bid is higher than the guy who bought his striper last week. A directory that sends property owners to you instead of the lowest number on Google.
Yes. Direct connection to contractors who buy striping paint, trucks, stencils, beads, and thermoplastics every day. Founding partners sit on the committees that write the standards their products need to meet.
Four-tier sponsorship, Bronze through Platinum, with year-round presence across PLSIC platforms, the annual State of the Industry report, and recognition at events. Founding sponsors get charter recognition that standard sponsors cannot buy.
A free account gets you a vetted directory of CPLS-certified contractors, condition tracking and estimates for every property in your portfolio, and the PLSIC standards you can cite in an RFP.
We do. PLSIC publishes the standards, partners with universities on applied research, and coordinates with state and regional associations rather than competing with them.
Founding CPLS candidates sit for the first examination window. Their names are on the first directory. They shape the standard instead of inheriting it. After September 14, 2026, that door closes and doesn't reopen.
Become a Founding MemberWe'll route you to the right person at PLSIC and keep you in the loop as the program launches.
Short answers. If you need more, email info@parkinglotstriping.org.
One email from PLSIC when something important ships, the first CPLS exam window, the first standard published, the directory going live. No pitch.