Comparing Truck Washes With Mobile Truck Washes, and Dry Washing Strategies

Should a fixed site truck wash add mobile fleet washing services to its menu of offerings? Well, there is a definite need. Not every delivery fleet for instance can afford the labor time to bring all their vehicles to a fixed site truck wash. Meanwhile, mobile washing uses less water than truck washes, even with their recycling. For instance if you leave a truck wash and drive down the street, look at all the water that drips off, and how much water runs off as you move forward into the drying area.

For mobile truck washing - washing efficiently is paramount and with all the new EPA enforcement, the NPDES rules will be closely watched, which is a good thing really. There are many units that put out 3000 PSI at 4.5 GPM that clean very well, that's not a lot of water. Heck, I can remember washing 75 FED EX vans with 250 gallons of water in 2-hours, used to do it all the time.

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The days of a rogue mobile truck wash or fleet washing company coming in with the "labor from hello" and allowing wash water run-off into the storm drains pretending to be reclaiming the water are over. That is all a good thing. Another type of fleet washing service is the Dry Washing concept. One issue that may occur is that the "Dry Wash" type companies that are well-funded by naive VC will use their political pull to try to change the rules to try to prevent mobile washing services which use actual water to operate.

You can expect this type of environmental lobbying to continue, which will be further lobbied by large fixed site truck wash chains, and the ICA (International Carwash Association) and others to try to shut down mobile washing, especially using a Level II drought restriction periods to propel these changes.

Being a single mobile truck washing operator, does not give you a lot of political pull to re-educate the politicians into a reality perspective, especially when the media is screaming about Global Warming doom and gloom BS. In essence the real threat to the mobile washing sector is the thing what Adam Smith warned us about and nothing else.

Not long ago, I was having this conversation with a new entrepreneur wishing to break into the mobile fleet wash sector, and he asked me; "Are there any technologies out there that can re-use all the water in the truck wash process. I'm starting already to feel with water shortages in the next 10 years that our business is not going to stay around because of our shortage of technology?"

There are a couple - one is a Water Maze by Landa, but it is big and bulky - and somewhat costly for a mobile operation; K plus. Then there is a Karcher System, but you shouldn't mobilize it because it will get ruined from all the bouncing, the electronic computer system must be protected from such vibrations. There are several other competing systems that cost less, but are not fool proof. I would not worry about water shortages where you are, I'd worry if you lived in NM, Southern CA, GA, MT, WY, etc.

Anyway, I hope this clears up some of your questions. If you have more, shoot me an email, and pick me up a 0 Starbucks Card, and I can further enlighten you.

Comparing Truck Washes With Mobile Truck Washes, and Dry Washing Strategies

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