Post by kevlar on Apr 29, 2023 13:06:06 GMT -6
Was going to put this in the other shop conversation but didn’t want to high jack it.
How do the rest of you keep your trucks and vehicles clean in the winter? Road salt is just killing our trucks and vehicles lately it seems, they just gob it on all the roads now. Nearest place I could wash my truck and trailer is almost an hour away so by the time I get it home it’s covered in salt again. Can wash the vehicles in town about 15 miles away but they are still covered by the time I get home.
My old trailer had a lot of rust, some because of bad paint, made worse by salt. Trailer I have now has minor rust and got it washed but the other day can see white from salt showing up an the roads were dry.
I would love to have a shop just for washing but that seems a little excessive, but if everything rusts out in five years, maybe not. I think they just use salt now with no sand, and lots of it. I wonder if the roads have gotten so bad that don’t want to blade the snow off now, pavement is broken up so badly it’s likely scary as hell to plow them, and the salt is making the pavement crumble even worse.
Would an outside wash need heated water? I would imagine so. Would suck having to drag everything in and out all the time to wash things.
How do the rest of you keep your trucks and vehicles clean in the winter? Road salt is just killing our trucks and vehicles lately it seems, they just gob it on all the roads now. Nearest place I could wash my truck and trailer is almost an hour away so by the time I get it home it’s covered in salt again. Can wash the vehicles in town about 15 miles away but they are still covered by the time I get home.
My old trailer had a lot of rust, some because of bad paint, made worse by salt. Trailer I have now has minor rust and got it washed but the other day can see white from salt showing up an the roads were dry.
I would love to have a shop just for washing but that seems a little excessive, but if everything rusts out in five years, maybe not. I think they just use salt now with no sand, and lots of it. I wonder if the roads have gotten so bad that don’t want to blade the snow off now, pavement is broken up so badly it’s likely scary as hell to plow them, and the salt is making the pavement crumble even worse.
Would an outside wash need heated water? I would imagine so. Would suck having to drag everything in and out all the time to wash things.
