Surfactant...with surface cleaner?

Draws. Just like yours. I pick a color to disperse chems @ say 20:1 then another color to say @ 50:1. The bigger the ID of the orifice the more chem you draw. I gotta GP high draw just like y’all do

Ok, just making sure I knew what I was looking at. :smiley:

And since we’re chatting…besides looks, is there any reason people want their trucks washed? Like, can dirt/grease/grime actually hurt a truck/truck parts?

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Yes. They need washed frequently for maintenance and for the mechanics to see potential problems that may occur. and also the DOT loves to pull over dirty neglected trucks

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Same reason you wouldn’t drive around with your pressure washing truck being a dirty dusty mess. It’s bad for business.

If @Hotshot would post some of those high dollar rigs that he washes and polishes you would also understand. These guys have a lot of pride. They’d choose their rig over their old lady any day…lol

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You guys are all running 3 way ball valves from pressuretek right @marinegrunt ?

So the government is helping you out. :wink: :face_with_monocle:

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Sad to say. but yeah @qons . Lol

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Actually, now that I think about it, the local government (depending on location) helps us residential guys as well. I got three jobs in one week from people either being cited for a violation (unclean exterior siding) or fear of being cited.

One local city around us is a real stickler for things. They even have a page on their website where you can easily report violations, and then they’ll send someone out to take a look.

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@Hotshot How far are you from St. Louis? Guessing 6 hours maybe?

I don’t fleet wash. I do more of a catered wash with ppl that own 200k to 300k or higher rigs. It takes longer but we also do all the polishing and detailing, I even polish hard wood floors on occasion in these trucks. So it’s no so much the government, it’s the owners of these particular trucks.

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Sheesh! That is a lot of pride those guys have! And you probably charge more for those rigs than for us guys washing 200-300k houses. lol.

How quick can you wash one of those rigs?

Man! That thing looks like it should be able to fly! I’ve seen cockpits with less instruments.

About 30 minutes with two 5.5 gpm washers, if they are weekly.


There usually like this ,we wash it every week without fail, and polish it 3 times a year

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Sheesh! That’s the business to be in right there.

We wash a house and likely aren’t washing that house for another 18-24 months. If you have the same customer weekly…Man!

It gets repetitious at time’s, but it also makes quick work of the job to ,because you got it dialed in like clock work.
There is guys on here that fleet wash and can get a truck done in 15,20 minutes with 1 machine, @dperez is like at 7 to 10 minutes, smoking fast, I gotta be more detailed because of my clientele demands it, meaning motor bay ,under chassis, dot wash etc… Picky ppl. Lol

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Cons are , your strapped to your work, its schedule all week, every week, 365 a year. And no weekends off , that’s when the trucks are home and sleeping. lol. Thats the time to wash them. .

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Bout 4 hrs

Ugh!

Holidays off?