Early Morning Truck Washing For Local Service Companies

How do you get truck washing done on 50 service trucks when they’re only at the shop for one hour per week?

Early Morning Truck Washing For Local Service Companies

It can be a problem. But if your company trucks are dirty, it doesn’t reflect well on your company, especially if your technicians are working in people’s homes. If they show up in a dirty truck, people start thinking about what their home will look like when they leave.

It creates a negative first impression – the one that sticks in your customer’s mind. This is not how you want to start a service call. You want them to have a positive impression from the start so they call you back and refer your company to their friends.

Some companies have an employee wash the trucks after hours – but this doesn’t work for companies that let their drivers take the trucks home. The advantage of them taking the trucks home – besides the cost benefit to the driver – is that they can be dispatched from home and start to work right away.

We can send more than one crew to get the job done on time

Coming into the office to pick up their truck, get their route for the day and get started usually involves some wasted time. If you multiply that times 20 or more drivers and 20 or more days per month, it adds up to some pretty big dollars.

When you run the numbers on what it costs to pay your driver’s to take their trucks to the local car wash, it doesn’t make any sense. If it takes him an hour and costs $5-$10 for the wash, you’re way in the hole. That doesn’t even include the cost of the gas or any other operating costs.

And it’s almost a certainty that your drivers would rather be doing something else. So they may not do the best job possible, especially if they’re in a hurry to get home.

We can clean your trucks while your having your meeting

Most truck fleets have come to realize that having someone else do the truck washing is the best solution.But if you’re going to wash your trucks on site, you need to make sure the wastewater doesn’t run off site and get into a storm drain. If the truck washing service doesn’t do water recovery, your company could get an expensive EPA violation.

Many local companies – like Bell Plumbing – call us to do the truck washing while they have their weekly meetings. We show up early in the morning – with more than one crew if needed – and wash the trucks while they’re inside having their meeting.

And when the drivers come back out to their trucks, they’re clean and shiny and ready to go. This is a much more efficient use of your driver’s time and your company’s money.

If you need an experienced truck washing service you can depend on that includes water recovery, call our office at 303-937-7181 or email us at info@washonwheels.net.