Contractors and aggregate producers run the broadest mix of units of any customer we have: tandem and quad-axle dumps, mixers, water trucks, lowboys and the tractors that pull them, service trucks, a dozen pickups, and then the loaders, excavators, dozers and screens. The season is short and the equipment works every day of it. We wash the whole yard in one visit, on a cycle in season and before the winter lay-up.
What we wash for contractors
- Dump trucks, tandems and quads
- Concrete mixers, drum exterior and chutes
- Water trucks and tack trucks
- Lowboys, tag trailers and tractors
- Service and fuel trucks
- Pickups and crew vans
- Loaders, excavators and dozers
- Rollers, pavers and milling machines
- Screens, crushers and plant (quoted)
- Skid steers and attachments
The mud problem and the road
A quad-axle leaving a pit with the fenders packed is a hazard on the highway and a reason for a stop. Undercarriage and fender washing on the dump fleet, weekly in the wet months, keeps the trucks legal and the shop from spending Monday morning with a bar and a shovel. Undercarriage washing.
Before service, before sale, before the winter
Three visits most contractors book outside the route: a degrease and wash before a machine's major service so the mechanic sees the leaks; a full wash before equipment is listed or goes to auction, because clean iron sells for more; and the fall wash before the fleet is parked, so it is not sitting in corrosive mud for five months. Heavy equipment washing.
Wash water on a construction yard
Most contractor yards are gravel with no storm drain nearby, which is the easy case. Where there is a drain or a ditch to a creek, we use reclaim mats and vacuum recovery. We will look at the yard and say what is needed. Wash water and stormwater rules.
Can you wash a concrete mixer drum?
The exterior of the drum, the chutes, fins and the truck, yes. We do not do interior drum chip-outs; that is a different trade with different tools.
Our fleet works out of a pit 40 miles from the yard. Can you come there?
If it is within our service area, yes. The wash trucks are self-contained, so a gravel pit works as well as a yard. We just need room to park within hose reach.