Dirty Truck

It amazes me how much our truck wash bill goes up in the winter.  A typical truck wash at the Blue Beacon costs between $45.00 to $60.00 depending on what we have done.  We often have the truck washed more then once a week.

There are not a lot of options out here to get our truck washed.  We rarely find a self-serve truck wash and we just do not fit in the car washes!  So we are at the mercy of the commercial truck washes.  We often wait in line an hour at a commercial truck wash that has two wash bays and where the truck is hand washed by a crew. Sometimes they do a good job and sometimes Bob has them wash the whole truck again.  We often open our lift gate for them to wash off.  I also usually have them wash our floor mats.  After we get the truck washed it is up to us to dry it off or uses the blow dry method going down the road.  If we wait too long to wash the truck the salt starts eating at the chrome and that can take Bob hours to buff out.  We have found is it much better to spend the money and maintain the truck then to be reactive and try to fix the damage the salt has done to the undercarriage.  We do not feel as if our customers need to see a filthy truck coming on to their property if we can keep that from happening.  In the summer time when the truck does not get this grimy Bob often just uses a bucket and a brush and washes the truck down himself.  Bob always says "A clean truck is a happy truck".