Tips For Washing Work Vans and Service Vehicles
Work vans and service vehicles need extra care because other businesses rely on them to run their daily business. Detailers and people who run car washes must go above and beyond to ensure that these cars look clean and professional every time they visit.
Here are three things to learn when you wash service vehicles and work vans.
Commercial Cars Are a Bit More Important
Cleaning a commercial vehicle is a bit more important than washing a regular car. You want to give each customer the best service, but it’s not the end of the world if you miss a spot here or there.
On the other hand, the average person’s car doesn’t have to impress potential clients or maintain a certain level of cleanliness.
A new defining factor comes into play with commercial vehicles: brand reputation. When other drivers see well-kept service vehicles on the road, they think well of the company.
More than just a way to get around, these trucks are the basis of someone else’s income. They carry the people and things that the company needs to keep going. The operation’s reputation in the community it serves depends on how clean and well-run it is.
If you take good care of your commercial vehicles, your customers will benefit in the following ways:
Maintains roadworthiness: For a commercial vehicle to be considered roadworthy, it must meet certain standards set by the industry. Your detailing service can help them meet these standards.
Cuts down on company downtime: Businesses save time and energy by hiring a professional cleaner to do a thorough job.
Logos, slogans, and other efforts to brand a vehicle: These are more likely to catch your eye when the dirt and grime are gone.
Makes a good impression of the company: Having a fleet of clean vehicles helps a company look good.
Every customer deserves the best service, but there is room for some mistakes. On the other hand, you can’t make mistakes with commercial vehicles because they are so important to local businesses.
Make Sure You Offer a Variety of Services
As part of the standards for roadworthiness, commercial vehicles must be under a certain height and weight. That means that some of them won’t fit in your touchless car wash or won’t get the same clean as the other cars.
That’s fine because every carwash has its limits and can’t clean every make and model that pulls up.
You need to be flexible and offer different deals and packages so that commercial vehicles of all sizes can get a complete wash.
For example, there are different ways to clean sprinter vans and box trucks. You could have a package for every kind of vehicle.
When it comes to their commercial vehicles, businesses also have different needs and priorities. Some customers want a polish, while others might ask for tire shines, waxing, or other special services. Your car wash needs to change how it works to meet their needs.
You could give tall trucks and vans that can’t fit through the touchless wash a special discount as a way to make up for it. When your usual service isn’t good enough, you must find other ways to keep customers happy.
Get The Right Equipment
To clean and clean up commercial vehicles, you need a certain set of tools. You may already have some of them to work on regular cars, but to be clear, here’s what you need to work on commercial vehicles:
- Commercial pressure washer
- Open trailer with two axles and a 500-gallon water tank
- Chemicals for a two-step wash should be held in separate tanks.
- Low-pH acidic detergent
- High-pH alkaline-based detergent
- Aluminum brightener
- Hose reel that rolls up
- A generator can power pumps and other devices.
- Your pressure washer will need hoses and pumps to work.
With these tools, you can clean a whole fleet of big commercial vehicles. You might also need to spend money on a better water reclamation system to keep up with larger vehicles’ runoff, but this will save you time and money in the long run.