What is the difference between a message board and an arrow board?
A message board displays changing words or instructions for advance warning. An arrow board uses illuminated directional patterns to guide traffic through a merge, shift, or closure.
Rental and new equipment purchase options
Rent message boards and arrow boards for an upcoming project, or ask about purchasing new equipment for recurring work-zone and traffic-control needs.
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Ask about renting for a project or purchasing new equipment. Our retail team will follow up to confirm the right setup, availability, and pricing for your needs.
Portable changeable message boards communicate project information and changing conditions before drivers reach a work area. Arrow boards provide strong directional guidance for merges, lane shifts, and closures. Smart Traffic KC offers rental and new purchase options for contractors, municipalities, facilities, property managers, and other project teams across the Kansas City area.
Tell us whether you need equipment for a specific project or want to add new boards to your own fleet. We can help identify the right next step based on the application, project schedule, quantity, and traffic-control plan.

Tell us whether you need a message sign or a 15-foot or 25-foot light folding frame trailer-mounted arrow board, plus the project location, quantity, rental dates or purchase timeline.
The project duration and how often your team uses traffic-control equipment can help determine whether renting or purchasing new is the better fit.
Rental options can fit temporary work, changing schedules, and project-specific board needs without adding permanent fleet equipment.
New equipment purchase options can support contractors and organizations that use message or arrow boards regularly across multiple jobs.
Boards can be planned with cones, signs, barricades, and barriers so the work-zone message and traffic path are consistent.
Send the board type, quantity, project dates or purchase timeline, location, and a short description of how the equipment will be used. We’ll help you review current options.
Common questions
A message board displays changing words or instructions for advance warning. An arrow board uses illuminated directional patterns to guide traffic through a merge, shift, or closure.
Rental options are available for project-based needs. Send the project dates, location, board type, and quantity so current availability can be reviewed.
Yes. Ask about new equipment purchase options and include the type and quantity your organization needs.
Yes. Boards can be coordinated with cones, signs, barricades, barriers, and the broader work-zone traffic-control plan.
Have a project in mind?
Send us the project location, service needed, timeline, and any photos, plans, or site notes that will help us respond quickly. We will route your request to the right person for traffic control, pavement markings, signs, warehouse striping, bollards, or wheel stops.