Look good !
The distribution center is not Amazon but another 3rd party company that does the delivering. This van is probably 95% of their fleet:
https://cbsdallas.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/amazon-delivery.jpg?w=420&h=236
Thanks, still need to work on efficiency. But this being the second weekend doing this, Iâll get it down within the month.
10-4. Sorry. Now I get it
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I will definitely stop by if I am ever down that way. What part of Arkansas?
Little town ,called Lynn Arkansas, population 272. Outside of the big town of Batesville Arkansas.
When I am not washing houses,I work for UPS. I have been in the transportation industry for 30 years.
I know for a fact that Amazon is making a huge push to expand itâs delivery services, not only their own products, but to be a player in the small package delivery field.
There have been rumors of them wanting to purchase FED-EX ground. They are big enough to do it.
This could be HUGE for you.
UPS studies everything. Methods,movements, efficiency at itâs best
UPS washed every vehicle, every day when I first started (30 years ago). I used to volunteer for overtime to the wash shift after my sort shift ended. They had a method. 1 package car washed in 6 mins or less. Water fed brush pole.No pressure, no soap. Once you got the method down it was pretty easy.
Stack them up side by side, 2 guys could wash an entire section of cars in about an hour.
2 guysâŚ20 cars an hourâŚ160 cars a nightâŚdone
Those Sprinters and Transits are way smaller than UPS cars. Just sayinâ
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You newer gens need to realise you dont need cleaner for everything. He just needs to powerwash it out. Im sure @Racer agrees with me. Were Both prob hitting close to 80. But we still got knowledge
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Better yet, he should awesomewash it! 
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Did a tractor this weekend and we had a film left on that I couldnât get off without wiping it off with a dry towel. Iâm using a local vendors soap here called Blue Thunder w/ Wax. It is a 11 or 12 pH soap. We foamed it on, brushed and then rinsed with hot water. Am I doing something wrong here? Is there a better alternative of soap that wonât leave the film on?
I thought about using Panel Bright on these tractors but donât want to waste more money with the same results, especially when I donât have to pay shipping here.
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Itâs either soap film from letting it dry before rinsing, not rinsing enough or your soap is not good enough quality to break the road film.I canât remember, are you using heat? Also whatâs youâre DS ratio for applying soap ?
I bought soap from envirospec, back when I was green, had wax and heavy polymer crap in it. All garbage.
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Iâm thinking it might be hard water.
Iâm not DSâing it. Have a dedicated foamer, .25 gallon of soap and 1.25 gallon of water. I wet surface down, apply foam and then start brushing (Iâve tried dwelling it and brushing immediately with minimal changes in results) and then rinse with 180 degree water.
I think I am going to get some Panel Bright to see how that works out as well. I know (at least have read) that soap is good. Iâll use the locally sourced stuff for the white straight trucks until I run out of it.
Iâm gonna pass on to you a little gift that was passed to me. HYDRO CHEM in Michigan, Chad Reiffer. If you wanna really get into this racket and make $ and do a high end truck n trailer or fleets in good time? Heâs got your elixer youâve been seeking. âŚ
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I talked with him on Thursday
The shipping sucks. But at his soap and acid prices, it all works out for the better . He can put a max of 32 buckets of chem on one pallet at $150 shipping, not bad
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The only thing that sucks is I wanna do a test first before buying that much product and at $150 to ship a couple of buckets is steep. I wanna try a couple of different manufacturers
