I know it’s weaker. I thought the second soap was supposed be stronger. Supersonic should be the weaker of the two
I do 25:1,20:1 and 50:1 for acid. But I run 3 different kinds of acid. Hf,PH,Citric. You generally don’t need alot of acid compared to your soap to make the magic happen fellas.
Right so your first step should be weaker mix than your second right?
So we’ll go with supersonic (step 1) and dynaclean (step 2). Supersonic 25:1 and dynaclean 15:1 was what I was thinking
Simply stated. Less acid,more soap. Sorry if I confused ya
Yes. If I were you,go 15:1 across the board,wide open on your DS,then it will get clean for sure,with that holy crap factor. Then start choking it down on acid and soap to start saving $ …The dirtier the truck ,the more product. When you get $2000 saved up ,then the game changes to a 2 step upstreaming ,kinda,process at 2000 psi like @pressureguy has,ya’ll don’t 2 step HF yet,so it’s a little different. It’s challenging for sure, but cuts your time in half,but only do it every 3rd wash or so on paint,I use it on non polished rigs only
I want @pressureguy two step gun set up. But I also want my 3000 psi to blow off debris, and 5th wheels etc for both of my machines, cause I split them up on different jobs.
You can run a high pressure or turbo nozzle into the end of the two step lance. Tried it the other day with no problem.
Well, you definitely identified a major problem there. My furthest account is 40 min out, no how no way am I going any further out.
Yeah it’s an issue. I made a master list of all the trucking companies within a 2 hour radius using quicktransportsolutions.com.
If I were to restrict my radius to 40 minutes, I would have about 15 clients with 10 or more power units to work with and there’s only a handful of smaller clients and owner/operators that are close enough to be worth it.
Sounds like a race to the bottom.
Was contacted this morning thru my Facebook page. Asked if I’d do some trucks in Lincoln, which is about 40 miles away. Asked the guy where he heard of my company and he said at a local carwash. I forgot I dropped some business cards off on a table that had a bunch of cards from various companies. Didn’t think it would ever be worth anything but I thought what the hell.
The guy was told to find a local washer and ran across my card. He passed on to the dispatch and said they should contact me tomorrow. Problem (good problem) is they have 344 tractors. No clue in how many would be in the yard at any given time. I haven’t really done a bunch of tractors so I’m not sure how long it takes to clean them. I know I can knock out 8 straight trucks in 2 hours from set up to year down.
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Oh no don’t do it. Way too many cons to washing massive fleets.
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such as? I really don’t that many tractors sitting in the lot ever week though.
First and foremost 99% of the time they want to pay pennies on each unit since they figure they get their volume discount and all. Wait who says that’s how this works again Sir? Lol
Number two that’s going to be a revolving door on the units you are cleaning. Hardly maintenance you’ll see units you haven’t touched in a while. Time is 
and they’ll take you longer.
I could go on and on
This is how much you’ve been quoted on big accounts? I wouldn’t start my truck, let alone hook my trailer up to it for $14 for a straight truck. And I’d be at $45 for a tractor, so if I could get $34.50 for a larger account I’d do that. Would have to be at least 20 pieces cleaned each time out though and would have to be weekly since they have a butload of trucks
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I can see their corporate site in Fremont, NE, that is concrete. Not sure about the Lincoln site.
I’d take a huge account over a small one ever day. My biggest client has 70+ tractors and we wash 40-50 every week at $35-$55. I would imagine a client with over 300 tractors could have 50 or so in the yard on a weekend easy. Easy day and I’d 100% give them a volume discount if they were offering me hundreds of units a month. That’s just me tho. Dperez has been at this since before I started college lol.
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I mean if you were to clean each tractor once a month that’s a potential six figure account even at $25. Definitely something I would look into if I were you.
Entertain the idea at least, If you land it ,make sure you tally up all your expenses at the end of the week and hrs spent. Don’t be shocked if they are on a 30 to 60 day pay period, good luck dude
I think George and Harrison should team up in Nebraska @dperez , George has the leads , Harrison has the big 8gpm’s and and looking for a change. That huge contract is gonna require some big equipment.
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