What impact does a CLEAN vehicle have on your customers and employees? Do you have a clean and green strategy toward your image?

There are many articles discussing the impending, if not current shortage of qualified, professional drivers for the trucking industry. Do you think you can get an advantage in acquiring these types of drivers over the other trucking companies if you offered a clean truck every day they arrived to work?... Read More

Stifel’s Transportation and Logistics Conference brought together key players in the heavy duty trucking industry to talk about the future of natural gas and trends in this market. They closely looked at natural gas penetration in the class 8 markets, engine agreements, refueling infrastructure and much more in this report. ... Read More

Being in the vehicle wash business for the past 20 years has taken many different routes of questions on solving problems. The most discussed topic with clients in 2012 was how to clean with the minimal effect to the environment. In the last article, we discussed the sewage of water, so let’s now turn our attention to the origins of the water.... Read More

The general public is not aware of the issues with today’s sewage discharge and what happens to the water going down the sewer.

There are two main types of sewers, municipal and storm.

Municipal sewers take the wastewater from buildings and homes to a processing plant to clean and normally discharge the water to the lake, river or ocean.... Read More

Questions still continue in the industry on what is the best method to wash a vehicle? Brushes scratch and touchless washes don’t clean the film off vehicles. Those are the two myths most believe.

Both are somewhat true when you are not optimizing the equipment or the proper methods to maximize the results. It is the history of neglect by owners of the machinery that keep these myths alive.... Read More

Transportation of food products is becoming more and more of a target by consumer groups and government for cleanliness. What does this mean to the industry? The pressure from customers to ensure the proper distribution and handling of food products will become more apparent by the amount of issues that have caused illness and lead to tampering in the past.... Read More

As originally posted at switchboard.nrdc.org.

Congress included an innovative program in the 1991 Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) that for over 20 years has helped clean up the environment by providing funds for transportation projects designed to reduce traffic congestion and improve air quality.... Read More

In general, most companies don’t have a determined cost per wash per vehicle. We have been in the washing business for 20 years and we know there are many, many variations to figure this out. I will give you some statistics to think about and methods to realize how important a topic this will be for the future.... Read More

It’s happening more and more often, companies have been banned from washing vehicles on their property.

Last week, I visited a customer who had their drains sealed by the city. Not only could they not wash their vehicles, they could not even use water in their mechanics garage. This is becoming more prevalent across North America.... Read More

We have taken time to discover the analysis of washing vehicles and have developed with our partners a simple aspect to discuss the total washing experience in the fleet industry.