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Expert Blogger Bio

Jack Jackson - President - Awash Systems

Topics: Environment  Safety and Regulations  Maintenance

Jack is an entrepreneurial relationship builder with 30 years' experience in sales and marketing, distribution and warehousing with a passion for providing solutions to clients.

E-mail: jjackson@awashsystems.com | Website: www.awashsystems.com

Driver Recruitment And Clean Trucks?

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

Is The Cost Of Water On Your Mind?

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

Where To Wash Your Vehicles

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

Washing – Soft Touch Or Touchless

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

HACCP & SAFE WASHING OF TRUCKS

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

What is the Cost to Wash Your Fleet?

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

When Will You be Banned From Cleaning Vehicles in Your Facility?

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

The Five Segments of Washing Vehicles

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.

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How to be certified green washing your vehicles?

We have been approached recently by companies to comply with environmental requests from their customers on how to wash their vehicles. Evidently, there are now customer RFP’s (Request for Proposals) asking what are your environmental and sustainable methods for cleaning, including trucks.... Read More

How to Wash Today for Tomorrow?

Visiting prospects lately has a changing dynamic over the years past. There is a renewed presence of how to wash effectively and environmentally correct.

Since the recent Truck World show in Toronto, we had a tremendous amount of interest in the best ways to clean vehicles. It seems there are many companies who know the methods they use today are getting outdated for the times, but have a tough time realizing the abilities available in the industry to help them save money and be more efficient.... Read More