As the title says, I have my first fleetwash job coming up. 30 trucks at $30 each. I am waiting to here back from the lcoal EPA office, but it looks like I am going to need to set up a reclaim system. Question: I was planning on using 1 or 2 55 gallon drums for the reclaimed water. Will this be enough? After all, if my machine is 4 gpm and it takes me 15 minutes/ truck, that’s 60 gallons per truck! (They are 15’ box trucks, btw.) Is that how everyone handles the reclaimed water? Even if I had a 600 gallon tank (and a truck that could hold it!) I would still be filling it up 3 times over the course of the job.
I’m no reclaim expert and i turn down any job that requires reclaim or sidewalks at apartments that drain anywhere near storm drains. That being said, I started out fleetwashing for Xterior Sales way back when. They only washed trucks that were parked in gravel lots, so no run off reached storm drains or US waters. If you reclaim water in tanks, you now have hazmat and must find somewhere to dispose of it. Once you leave the parking lot you have to have cdl with hazmat endorsement and medical card. Wash on gravel or use a sump pump to pump runoff into grass
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Agreed. To much pia when you could try to park the trucks in gravel.
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Great idea. More than 2/3 of this company’s lot is gravel, so it should be simple enough to wash the trucks there. Thanks for the help!
