A dirty fleet is a advertising problem and a maintenance problem at the same time. Road film holds salt and brake dust against paint and aluminum, DOT inspectors read a filthy unit as a poorly maintained one, and a driver who is embarrassed by their truck treats it accordingly. A1 Mobil washes fleets where they park — no deadheading a tractor across town to a wash bay, no unit out of service for half a shift.
Crews work monday to saturday, 07:00 to 18:00, and overnight windows are available for fleets that only sit still after dark. Everything arrives on the wash vehicle: water, pressure, power, chemistry and the containment rig. Your yard supplies nothing.
What gets washed
A typical fleet route covers a mix of the following in one visit:
- Sleeper and day-cab tractors, including polished aluminum and stainless trim
- Dry vans, reefers, flatbeds and tankers
- Box trucks, straight trucks and stake beds
- Cargo vans, sprinters and service vans
- Dump trucks, mixers and roll-offs
- Pickups and crew trucks running with the fleet
How a fleet visit runs
Walk the yard and seal the drains
Before any water moves, the crew locates every storm inlet in the work area and closes it with drain seals and booms. This is the step most wash vendors skip, and it is the step that decides whether the visit creates a liability for you.
Pre-soak and chemical dwell
Units get a low-pressure detergent application matched to what is actually on them — road film, diesel soot, brake dust or agricultural residue. Dwell time does the work so pressure does not have to, which is what protects decals and paint.
Two-step wash and rinse
An acidic brightener followed by an alkaline soap lifts oxidation off aluminum and film off painted surfaces. Hand detail on grilles, bumpers, fuel tanks and wheels where a pressure wand alone leaves shadows.
Recover, transfer and document
The vacuum system pulls the water back, it transfers into the 500-gallon onboard tank, and the crew logs each unit. On contract accounts that log becomes a per-unit condition report.
Contract fleets
Monthly and quarterly programs price per unit and hold a standing slot on the schedule, which is what keeps a fleet consistently clean rather than cleaned once after someone complains. Contract accounts get priority scheduling ahead of one-off work, volume pricing that falls as unit count rises, and a per-unit condition report on every visit — a dated record of what each truck looked like, which is useful the day a damage claim shows up.
There is no minimum fleet size for a one-time wash. Contract pricing starts to beat per-visit pricing at roughly ten units on a recurring cycle.