What chemicals would be used...

I am one of those type that refuses to go in debt on a bunch of high dollar equipment without any money coming in to pay for it. I started out with a direct drive 11 hp pressure washer and it lasted me the first several years I was in business. So dont let anyone fool you, you can wash fleets with cheap equipment. I actually didnt buy a hot water machine until the business started making over $30k per year and I bought one I could pay for. Your best bet with chemical is a good powder soap. KO manufacturing can help you pick out some good soap and they will deliver for you. With soap, you need to try different kinds until you find something you like. I personally like Brown powder soap. If you have a chemical manufacturer in your town, they can usually make a clone of any kind of car wash detergent you want to try. Good luck with that truck.
 
STW-75 Fleet Wash Powder
 
Panel Bright
 
What is panel bright? I am looking for something to wash my own truck and enclosed trailer with. Hugh
 
copgib said:
What is panel bright? I am looking for something to wash my own truck and enclosed trailer with. Hugh
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Panel bright might be a little to aggresive for your truck Hugh,but should do a great job on the trailer.Get some Meguires car wash for the truck.
Russ Johnson hooked me up with Panel bright for a bus fleet we used to do and it kicks butt.
 

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It's a brown soap, which generally is more of a hot caustic soap. Russ has it and he's told me it works pretty good. A person can vary the dilution rate depending on the difficulty of the partcular job. It's not free, but good soap never is! He can probably put up a link for you, or you could click on his website and search a little bit. I don't know if anyone else handles it, but Russ seems like a pretty fair guy. Hey Scott, did you do any brushing on those busues back doors in the photos?
 
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It's a brown soap, which generally is more of a hot caustic soap. Russ has it and he's told me it works pretty good. A person can vary the dilution rate depending on the difficulty of the partcular job. It's not free, but good soap never is! He can probably put up a link for you, or you could click on his website and search a little bit. I don't know if anyone else handles it, but Russ seems like a pretty fair guy. Hey Scott, did you do any brushing on those busues back doors in the photos?
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Yeeesssssssssssssssssss.They are fiberglass bodies that had failed gel coat.If it weren't for the panel bright and a good truck brush they would have never got that clean.
We no longer service that account because the operator didn't like to pay his bills.We were washing 14 of them and doig the interior wipe down.
It's a state and federally funded program that requires they be cleaned inside and out at a minimum of monthly.To my knowledge they aren't being cleaned by anyone now and it shows.
 
Sounds like a garbage truck account.

Ever had a white glove test on a garbage truck? I have.
 
I use a "Black" soap or Brown soap manufactured by Hydro Chem Systems up here in Michigan. Its called Dynaclean and Bright. It is very caustic, but they also build it with buffers to keep the aluminum from browning like a lot of the caustic soaps do. I can actually use it to brighten aluminum if used less than 5:1. It cleans great, I mainly use it on white trailers. It is a little more expensive then their other soaps but for some fleets it works great.
 
I have always used Brown soap but recently, I found a soap manufacturer in the northern part of the state that makes a pretty good soap for 74 cents a pound. It has some caustic but for older trailers, it works great. I might not wash a new cadillac with it though.
 
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